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Voltairine de Cleyre and Benjamin R. Tucker, “Some Questions and Criticisms” (1890)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some Questions and Criticisms. To the Editor of Liberty: What is a nuisance? A nuisance. What is an encyclopædia? An encyclopædia. Will the Encyclopædia please inform the Nuisance by what peculiar system of contradictions he […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Economic Tendency of Freethought” (1890)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE ECONOMIC TENDENCY OF FREETHOUGHT BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE FRIENDS,–On page 286, Belford-Clarke edition, of the “Rights of Man,” the words which I propose as a text for this discourse may be found. Alluding to […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Economic Tendency of Freethought” (1890)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE ECONOMIC TENDENCY OF FREETHOUGHT BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE FRIENDS,–On page 286, Belford-Clarke edition, of the “Rights of Man,” the words which I propose as a text for this discourse may be found. Alluding to […]

Voltairine de Cleyre & Emma Goldman, “Tour Impressions” and “A Rejoinder” (1910-11)

July 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

TOUR IMPRESSIONS LEAVING Philadelphia on Friday, the 7th of October, I began my meeting with comrades and their work on that evening in New York, and from that day till the present writing (I date […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Evolution of an Agitator” (1904)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Evolution of an Agitator. Some years ago, a young minister of the gospel was given charge of a good sized church in the southwestern part of Chicago. He had shown such marked ability, such […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Rural Romance”(1902)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Rural Romance. In a quiet, pleasant neighborhood in Kansas lives a good woman with whom I sometimes spend a few restful weeks in midsummer. Just up a little slope and on the opposite side […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “The ‘Slummers’” (1902)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The “Slummers.” Three charming young ladies sat together chatting and eating bonbons and fruit in the pretty, cosy boudoir belonging to one of them, one afternoon in early spring. Some one had quoted the saying […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Type” (1902)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

“A Type.” The slaves of slaves—can there be any greater depths of misery? The story I have to tell to-day is of a commonplace little woman who would attract no one’s attention for beauty, accomplishment […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Hard Working Philander Peppers” (1902)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Hard Working Philander Peppers. Several men stood about the door way of a big stone building, an iron foundry, talking in a desultory fashion; it was nearly 1 o’clock and the whistle would soon blow, […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Gift from His Employes,” (1902)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Gift From His Employes. The junior member of the firm of Seigel, Berkfield & Co., manufacturers of cloaks and suits, was about to be married. The employees all knew it for some weeks before […]