Dyer D. Lum

Dyer D. Lum (1839-1893)

Links Dyer D. Lum in the Boston Investigator (1857–1861) Dyer D. Lum in the Banner of Light (1867–1872) Dyer D. Lum in The Evolution (1877–1878) Works by Dyer D. Lum Dyer D. Lum, “Cure Meslier,” The Boston Investigator 27, no. 5 (May 27, 1857): 2. Dyer D. Lum, “Infidels Should Avow Their Sentiments,” The Boston Investigator 27, no. 11 (July 8, 1857): 1. Dyer D. Lum, “The First Christians,” The Boston Investigator 27, no. 36 (December 30, 1857): 1. [letter] – Boston Investigator, (Boston, MA) Wednesday, November 14, 1860; pg. 237; Vol. 30, Issue 30; Dyer D. Lum, “Axioms,” The […]
Lizzie M. Holmes

Lizzie M. Holmes (1850-1926)

Lizzie M. Holmes was born Elizabeth May Hunt (December 21, 1850) and lived for some time in Berlin Heights, OH (a free-love commune of sorts.) She wrote (or was identified in the press) under quite a number of different names: Lizzie M. Swank, Lizzie Swank Holmes, L. M. S., May Huntley, etc. Works by Lizzie M. Holmes: “Resolutions of Respect” Boston Investigator, (Boston, MA) Wednesday, January 30, 1884; pg. 6; Issue 42. Lizzie M. Swank, “An Open Letter to the Moral Education Society,” The Radical Review 2 no. 16 (May 31, 1884): 2. Lizzie M. Swank, “Wealth and Poverty,” Nemaha […]
Joshua King Ingalls

Joshua King Ingalls (1816 – 1898)

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] J. K. Ingalls: …among the Universalists (1840–1847) …in “The Univercœlum” (1847–1849) …in “The Spirit of the Age” (1849–1850) Mutualist Townships: Brisbane and Ingalls (1849–1850) …in “The Shekinah” (1852–1853) …in “The Journal of Progress” (1853) Psychometrical Portrait of Joshua King Ingalls (1853) S. B. Brittan, “J. K. Ingalls” (1873) …in “Liberty” (1882–1896) …in “The Woman’s Tribune” (1888–1894) …, “Reminiscences of an Octogenarian” (1897) A Joshua King Ingalls miscellany Architectural glass patents of Ingalls and Hyatt [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Chronological Bibliography – Joshua King Ingalls Joshua King Ingalls, “A Sermon, Delivered in the Universalist Church, […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Welcome to Anarchist Beginnings

VOL. I — DECLARATIONS & PROFESSIONS OF FAITH Precursors & Related Tendencies: pre-1840 The Era of Anarchy: 1840—1880 The Era of Anarchism: 1881—1925 VOL. II — PROGRAMS & MANIFESTOS VOL. III — CATECHISMS, DIALOGUES, POEMS & STORIES VOL. IV — CRITIQUES & CARICATURES VOL. V — PROGRESS REPORTS & REASSESSMENTS 1850-1876 1877-1919 1920-1930 PROJECT PAGES: Anarchist Beginnings category feed The Why I Ams Beginnings The ANARCHIST BEGINNINGS project began as a series of pamphlets from my Corvus Editions project, simply titled “Anarchisms,” collecting a first assortment of the “Declarations & Professions of Faith,” together with some collective statements from the […]
Voltairine de Cleyre

DE CLEYRE, Voltairine (1866-1912)

  Essays by Voltairine de Cleyre: Voltairine de Cleyre, “Secular Education,” The Truth Seeker 14 no. 49 (December 3, 1887): 774-775. Voltairine de Cleyre, The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, Pittsburgh : R. Staley and Co., 1888. Voltairine de Cleyre, “Pennsylvania Conventions and Ohio Workers,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 12 (March 24, 1888): 179-180. Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Quaker City,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 30 (July 28, 1888): 468-469. Voltairine de Cleyre, “In a Marble Tomb,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. 31 (August 4, 1888): 486. Voltairine de Cleyre, “State, Nature and Art,” The Truth Seeker 15 no. […]
Louise Michel

Travels in the Louiseverse

TEXTS: “Why We are Anarchists” — 1891 “Why I am an Anarchist” — 1896 TRANSLATIONS: The Claque-Dents (in progress) Prologue (FR/EN) Chapter I (FR/EN) Chapter II (FR/EN) Chapter III (FR/EN) Chapters IV-VI “The Clavier of My Over-Dream“(1867) (FR/EN) “The Crows” The Imperial Bastard (excerpts) “Nadine” (play about Bakunin) “The Strike” (play) The New Era (1887) The New Era A Final Thought (FR/EN) Memories of Caledonia (poem) (FR/EN) “Old Abraël” (1888) (FR/EN) “Old Chéchette” (1884) (FR/EN) “Today or Tomorrow” (1892) (FR/EN) Louise Michel’s writings are a strange mix of literary brilliance and serious disarray. Many of her published works were issued […]
Claude Pelletier

Claude Pelletier — “A Clear-Headed Socialist” — (1816-1880)

Readers of this blog and The Mutualist should already know the name Claude Pelletier from my in-progress translation of The Socialist Soirées of New York (1873) and some mentions of his Socialist Dictionary. (I’ve also started a translation of his 1848 Solution of the Problem of Poverty.) Pelletier was one of that small, but important group of French anarchists who published much of their work while in America, and, like Joseph Dejacque, he was a member of the International Association of 1855-59. He was essentially a mutualist anarchist in his politics, though he preferred a series of terms of his […]