Edward Carpenter

Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney and Beatrice Webb , Edward Hulton (editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford , for whom she wrote several articles. With...

In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx , barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson , and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter . Others she met in...

In 1875 or 1876, IOF met the writer Edward Carpenter , who introduced her to socialist ideals.. Carpenter was in Leeds conducting a series of lectures on astronomy. Though Isabella was only twenty...

She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson , of Hertha Ayrton , physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould . These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking...

Her dedication, dated January 1920, addresses the socialist philosopher and sexual reformer Edward Carpenter with my love and gratitude; love for the privilege of your friendship, gratitude for all your work has taught me.

EMF made a visit to the sexual and social reformer Edward Carpenter at Milthorpe in Northamptonshire which is thought to have been instrumental in forwarding his acceptance of his own homosexuality.