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Verso, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 565 pages. Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, the gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other causes, free love ...
Edward Carpenter was an English writer identified with social and sexual reform and the late 19th-century anti-industrial Arts and Crafts Movement. Carpenter was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected a fellow and ordained in 1869.
Edward Carpenter is best known today for his writings, and for his courageously honest gay lifestyle. Carpenter is rarely thought of as a musician or composer, yet a search through the Carpenter Archive in Sheffield, or a quick glance through the bibliography , will show that Carpenter left behind a quantity of both published and unpublished music.
29 de ago. de 2022 · Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was an extraordinary individual for his time. Carpenter was an author, socialist, free love advocate and early pioneer for gay rights. He spoke openly about topics that were controversial in his lifetime, despite the risk. This one blog post cannot possibly do justice to Carpenter’s extensive life, his many influences, pursuits and […]
24 de feb. de 2022 · Edward Carpenter was not an obvious recruit to the class struggle. Born in 1844, he had been brought up in an upper-class Brighton family and graduated from Cambridge, becoming first an Anglican curate and then a lecturer in University Extension, an adult education movement.
9 de jun. de 2020 · One dawning July morning in 1870, at the insomniac peal of 4 A.M. — which Baldwin considered the hour of despair, reckoning, and self-redemption — a young English man who would become the philosopher, poet, and early LGBT rights activist Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844–June 28, 1929) picked up his pen and his courage, and composed an extraordinary letter to Walt Whitman.
Edward Carpenter was an English poet, social theorist and campaigner, and has been described as an early gay activist. As a proponent of an alternative, anti-industrial mode of life and an advocate of sexual freedom, he exercised a significant influence on progressive social thought at the turn of the century.
