William Morris by E.P. Thompson

Author:E.P. Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2011-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

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1 My Years of Exile, p. 162: “Shaw gave Dubedat nearly all the characteristic attributes of Edward Aveling: his passion for having everything of the best; the assured and shameless manner in which he borrowed, in order to pay for his pleasures, the scanty cash of even the poorest of his acquaintances; his gift of fascinating the ingenuous, and, in particular, women, by his lyrical and aesthetic affectations and flirtations… these are the characteristic features of the man for whom Eleanor Marx sacrificed herself as completely in real life as Mrs. Dubedat sacrificed herself for her husband in the play. And the deliberate blindness and deafness of Mrs. Dubedat in respect of all that was said to the detriment of her husband is precisely the counter-part of the obstinacy with which Eleanor Aveling, despite all her painful experience of her chosen comrade, continued to believe in him…”

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1 H.S. Salt, Seventy Years Savages, p. 80.

2 Will Thorne, My Life’s Battles (1925).

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1 Bernstein, op. cit, p. 164.

2 Ibid., p. 159.

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1 See first edition, p. 860.

2 Bernstein, op. cit., p. 162.

3 W.S. Sanders, Early Socialist Days, p. 80.

4 “Engels at Home”, in the Labour Prophet, September, 1895.

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1 Bernstein, op. cit, p. 202.

2 Labour Prophet, September, 1895. See also Bernstein, op. cit., p. 206.

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1 May Morris, II, p. 173.

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1 Commonweal, March, 1886, “Looting, Scientific and Unscientific.”

2 The Religion of Socialism, p. 117.

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1 The Religion of Socialism, p. 116. When a woman fell off Clifton Suspension Bridge without breaking her neck, Bax (to Morris’s delight) pointed out in all seriousness that this proved that woman was a lower organism; man would have been killed (May Morris, II, p. 174)

2 Tom Mann, op. cit, p. 47.

3 Commonweal, August Supplement, 1885.

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1 Glasier, op. cit, p. 128.

2 Obituary notice signed “J.M.” (probably J.L. Mahon) in Justice, January 20th, 1923.

3 e.g. Kitz’s article, “Bastille, Bourgeoisie, and Bumble”, in Commonweal, November, 1885.

4 Morris to Joynes, February 3rd, 1885, Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 45345.

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1 In the recollection of the late Mr. Ambrose Barker, Joseph Lane and his circle were aware of the writings of Kropotkin, Bakunin, and of Benjamin Tucker, in America, as early as 1885.

2 Lane to Ambrose Barker, 1912, Nettlau Collection, Int. Inst. Soc. Hist.

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1 Scheu to Provisional Council, January 4th, 1885, S.L. Correspondence, Int. Inst. Soc. Hist.

2 Tom Maguire to Secretary, S.L., January 11th, 1885, S.L. Correspondence, Int. Inst. Soc. Hist.

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1 The Statement, published as a leaflet, is reprinted in full in Tom Mann, op. cit, pp. 45–6.

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1 This Constitution, provisionally adopted after the Split, was dropped from the revised Constitution adopted at the First Annual Conference. Later, it reappears in the North of England Socialist Federation (see p. 464) and the Hoxton Labour Emancipation League in 1888. A copy is preserved in the British Library of Political and Economic Science.

2 Report of J.L. Mahon to the Provisional Council, February 8th, 1885, S.L. Correspondence, Int. Inst. Soc. Hist.

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1 “Socialism and Politics”, July Supplement, 1885.

2 From Morris’s Preface to Robert Steele’s Medieval Lore (1893) (reprinted in May Morris, I, pp.

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