Lizzie M. Holmes (1850-1926)

February 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur Lizzie M. Holmes

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 County Republican (Sabetha, Kansas) (August 20, 1885): 7.
  • Lizzie M. Swank, “What Are ‘American Institutions’?,” The Commonweal, 3 no. 79 (July 16, 1887): 231.
  • L. M. S., “A Story of a Giant,” The Alarm, second series, 1 no. 3 (December 3, 1887): 1.
  • L. M. S., “A Word on Martyrs’ Mistakes,” The Alarm, second series, 1 no. 8 (February 11, 1888): 3.
  • Lizzie M. S. Holmes, “The Vital Question,” The Commonweal 5 no. 181 (June 29, 1889): 204.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Vital Question Again,” The Commonweal 5 no. 194 (September 28, 1889): 308-309.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Something in a Name,” The Commonweal 5 no. 207 (December 28, 1889): 412.
  • May Huntley, “Through the Furnace,” The Allentown Critic (Allentown, PA) (March 30, 1890): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Crime and Criminals,” The New Ideal 3 no. 2 (November, 1890): 489-497.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Women in the Conflict,” The New Californian 1 no. 1 (June 1891): 27–29.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Nina Van Zandt Spies to Marry an Italian Editor,” Wichita Daily Eagle 15 no. 46 (July 11, 1891): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “That World’s Fair Job,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (August 1, 1891): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Woman’s Emancipation,” The New Californian 1 no. 5 (October 1891): 155–156.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Sewing Girl’s Dream,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (November 14, 1891): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Woman in Economics,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (December 7, 1891): 6.
    • —, —, The New Californian 1 no. 8 (January 1892): 245–247.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Starving for Land,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (January 19, 1892): 7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Our Three Foes,” Union Pacific Employes’ Magazine 7 no. 3 (April, 1892): 79-81.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Slumming Fad,” The Daily Review (Decatur, IL) (May 1, 1892): 7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Criminal Classes,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (May 10, 1892): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Strike of Today,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (May 23, 1892): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Women and Unions,” The Indiana Progress 23 no. 29 (June 27, 1892): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Law Violated,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (December 9, 1892): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Misery in Chicago,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (March 1, 1893): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Domestic Service,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (April 1, 1893): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Sweat Shop Clothes,” The Olean Democrat (Olean, NY) (May 12, 1893): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Royalty and Rags,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (July 15, 1893): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “What is Before Us?,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (August 28, 1893): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “An Epoch in Marble,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (September 22, 1893): 3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Fin de Siècle Idea,” The Sunday Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (October 15, 1893): 8.
    • —, —, The Northern Advocate (Whangerie, NZ) (December 13, 1893): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “History Repeated,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (December 16, 1893): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Alms and Injustice,” The Lowell Sun (Lowell, MA) (January 20, 1894): 10.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Prophecy Verified,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (February 14, 1894): 7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Modern Militia,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (March 14, 1894): 3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Glorious Woman,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (April 7, 1894): 3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Tragedy of Life,” The Lowell Sun (Lowell, MA) (May 12, 1894): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Sham Unmasked,” The Lincoln Herald (Lincoln, Nebraska) (June 30, 1894): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Which is Bravery?,” Weekly Transcript (Little Falls, Minnesota) (July 27, 1894): 3.
    • —, —, The Flaming Sword 8 no. 4 (October, 1894): 60-61. [from the “Cleveland Citizen”]
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Lessons of July,” Weekly Transcript (Little Falls, Minnesota) (August 24, 1894): 5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Wise Speaker,” The Lincoln Herald (Lincoln, Nebraska) (August 25, 1894): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “New Way to Strike,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (September 25, 1894): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Playing at Reform,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (April 8, 1895): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Dismal Science,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (May 10, 1895): x.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Journeying West,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (June 6, 1895): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Digger Silent,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 5 no. 26 (June 29, 1895): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Spirit of the Day,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (July 30, 1895): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Ranchman Fielden,” Owosso Times (Owosso, Michigan) (August 30, 1895): 2.
  • May Huntley (pseudonym of Lizzie M. Holmes), “A Common Story Seldom Told,” Our New Humanity 1, no. 1 (September 1895): 65-68.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Wealth and Want,” The Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (September 6, 1895): 5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Ladies’ Magazine,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (September 24, 1895): 5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Other Story,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (October 21, 1895): 3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Glutting the Cities,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (December 12, 1895): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “World’s Exposition in the Year 2,000,” The Rebel 1, no. 6 (March-April, 1896): 67-68.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A New Workingman,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (March 10, 1896): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Cultured Cruelty,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (June 19, 1896): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Bike Revolution,” Shenango Valley News (Greenville, PA) (July 10, 1896): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Proud of our Past,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (July 30, 1896): 5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Labor in Denver,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (August 24, 1896): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Labor’s Hard Lot,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (December 2, 1896): 5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Gospel on Wheels,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 8 no. 25 (June 19, 1897): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Coming Revolution,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 8 no. 30 (July 24, 1897): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Practical Turn,” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (August 20, 1897): 6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “All is Quiet Again,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 8 no. 41 (October 16, 1897): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Organized Society,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL)  8 no. 45 (November 13, 1897): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Common Blight,” Appeal to Reason (December 18, 1897): 3. [poem]
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Is It Noble and Holy?,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 9 no. 2 (January 15, 1898): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “We’ll Go Forward,” The Jeffersonian Gazette (Lawrence, Kansas) (February 3, 1898): 2.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “[…] Forward,” Labor Advocate,(Birmingham, AL) 9 no. 5 (February 5, 1898): 1. [text missing, check against listing above]
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Appreciate the Earth,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 9 no. 8 (February 26, 1898): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Laborers War,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 9 no. 13 (April 2, 1898): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The War Spirit,” Industrial Freedom (Edison, WA) (June 11, 1898): 4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Wrongs Will Be Felt,” Appeal to Reason (June 18, 1898): 2. [poem]
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Step in Advance,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 9 no. 30 (July 30, 1898): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Woman’s Future Position in the World,” The Arena 20, no. 3 (September 1898): 333-343.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Liberty and Justice,” Labor Advocate (Birmingham, AL) 10 no. 14 (April 8, 1899): 1.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Mrs. Stetson’s Book,” The Denver Evening Post ?? no. ?? (December 18, 1899): 3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” The International Wood-Worker 11 no. 1 (January, 1901) 10-11.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Honest Toiler,” The International Wood-Worker 11 no. 6 (June, 1901) 61-62.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Only an Industrial Outcast,” The American Federationist 8, no. 8 (August 1901): 295–298.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Two Types of Wasted Lives,” The American Federationist 8, no. 10 (October 1901): 407–408.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Economy That Proved Disastrous,” The American Federationist 8, no. 11 (November 1901): 471–472.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Curse of Civilization,” The Commonwealth 3 no. 2 (November 1901): 19.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The ‘Dignity of Labor’,” The Tailor 12, no. 4 (November 1901): 6–8.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Her Life for Labor,” The American Federationist 8, no. 12 (December 1901): 521–524.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Not by Bread Alone,” The American Federationist 9, no. 1 (January 1902): 11–14.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Cost of Success,” The Tailor 12, no. 5 (January 1902): 7–9.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The First Woman’s Strike in the West,” The Tailor 12, no. 6 (February 1902): 6–8.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Judge Newcombe’s Retribution,” The American Federationist. February, 1902, Vol. IX, page 65.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor,” Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine 32 no. 2 (February, 1902) 217-221.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Rural Romance,” The Tailor 12 no. 8 (March 1902): 4–6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “To Poverty,” Free Society 9 no. 13 (March 30, 1902): 5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Story of a Faithful Worker,” The Tailor 12, no. 9 (April 1902): 13–15.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Path One Treads,” The American Federationist May, 1902, Vol. IX, page 224.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Hard Working Philander Peppers,” The Tailor 12 no. 10 (May 1902): 7–9.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Gift from His Employes,” The Tailor 12 no. 11 (June 1902): 4–6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Little Slaves,” Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine 32, 6 (June 1902). 796-800.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The ‘Slummers’,” The Tailor 12 no. 12 (July 1902): 16–18.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Type,” The Tailor 13 no. 1 (August 1902): 9–12.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Unknown Toilers,” The Tailor 13, no. 2 (September 1902): 8–10.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Tyranny of Strikers,” The Tailor 13 no. 3 (October 1902): 5–7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “God’s Law or Man’s,” The Tailor 13, no. 4 (November, 1902): 5–7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The New Slavery,” Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine 33 no. 5 (November, 1902): 653-656.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Fear of Want Leads to the Greed of Gold,” The Tailor 13 no. 5 (December, 1902) 11-13.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Scab,” The Tailor 13 no. 6 (January, 1903) 6-7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Her Birthday Gift,” The American Federationist 10 no 3 (March, 1903): 165-167.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Courage of the Poor,” The Tailor 13 no. 8 (March, 1903) 11-13.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Out to Service,” The Tailor 13 no. 9 (April, 1903) 6-8.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Picture from Every Day Life in the City,” The Tailor 13 no. 10 (May, 1903) 2-3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon,” The Tailor 13 no. 12 (July, 1903) 4-6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The ‘Average’ Man,” The International Wood-Worker 13 no. 1 (July, 1903) 7-9.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Average Working Man” [aka “The ‘Average’ Man”], The Tailor 14 no. 2 (September, 1903) 7-9.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “An Incident of a Strike,” The Tailor 14 no. 3 (October, 1903): 7-9.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Story of a Dollar,” The Tailor 14 no. 4 (November, 1903): 5-6.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Children of the Farms,” The Tailor 14 no. 5 (December, 1903): 9-11.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Ladies’ Self-Improvement Club at Leighton,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 1 (January, 1903): 20-22.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Labor of the Children,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 2 (February, 1903): 56-58.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Slumming—A Story,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 3 (March, 1903): 104-106.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “In the Land of the Free,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 4 (April, 1903): 150-152.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Our Tyrants,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 7 (July, 1903): 321-323.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Choice of Despotisms,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 9 (September, 1903): 420-422.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The True Incentive,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 10 (October, 1903): 448-450.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Labor Creates All Wealth,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 11 (November, 1903): 468-470.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The New Commandment,” The International Wood-Worker 14 no. 12 (December, 1903): 510-512.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men,” The Tailor 14 no. 8 (March, 1904) 6-8.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Evolution of an Agitator,” The Tailor 14 no. 11 (June, 1904) 6-8.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Only a Tramp,” The Tailor 15 no. 9 (April, 1905) 17-19.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes,  “A Woman’s Club,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 1 (January 1905): 12–14.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Problem of the Enormously Wealthy,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 3 (March 1905): 65–68.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Story of a Far Away Land,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 4 (April 1905): 98–101.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Superfluous,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 5 (May 1905): 129–132.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Evil Results Mean Evil Causes,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 6 (June 1905): 168–170.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Romance of the Poor,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 7 (July 1905): 200–202.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Work of the Wealthy,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 8 (August 1905): 235–238.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Women Workers of Chicago,” The American Federationist 12 no. 8 (August 1905): 507–510.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Farmer’s Wife.” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 9 (September 1905): 265–268.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Scab,” The International Wood-Worker 15 no. 10 (October 1905): 289–292.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Old and Poor,” The Tailor 16 no. 4 (November, 1905) 11-13.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, The Evils of Liberty, I – To-morrow, December 1905
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, The Evils of Liberty, II – To-morrow, January 1906
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Our Boarders Talk,” The Tailor 16 no. 6 (January, 1906) 15-17.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Worst of Crimes,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 1 (January 1906): 1–4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The True Teachings,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 2 (February 1906): 32–35.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Wealth and Its Sources,” The Tailor 16 no. 7 (February, 1906) 10-12.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Trade Unionism the Only Hope,” The American Federationist 13 no. 3 (March 1906): 152–153.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Man Who Succeeded,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 4 (April 1906): 97–100.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Fault of the Unions,” The Tailor 16 no. 10 (May, 1906) 2-4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Philip Mayne’s Philanthropy,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 6 (June 1906): 171–173.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Plain Story of Plain Folks,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 7–8 (July-August 1906): 195–198.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Ideals,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 10 (October 1906): 273–275.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Match-Making Daughter,” Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine 41 no. 4 (October, 1906) 541-544.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Cry of the Children,” The Tailor 17 no. 4 (November, 1906) 5-7.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Christmas Spirit,” The International Wood-Worker 16 no. 12 (December 1906): 240–242.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Culture of the Heart,” The Tailor 17 no. 6 (January, 1907) 16-18.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Ideals,” The Blacksmiths Journal 3 no. 2 (February 1907): 1-3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Slavery of Civilization,” The International Wood-Worker 17 no. 3 (March 1907): 1-3.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Despoiling of the Children,” The Tailor 17 no. 10 (May, 1907) 9-10.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The World’s Beautiful Failures,” Mother Earth 2 no. 4 (June 1907): 184-189.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “An Object Lesson.” The Blacksmiths Journal 8 no. 6 (June 1907): 1–4.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Women and the Strike,” The Blacksmiths Journal 8 no. 6 (August 1907): 3–5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Society Notes from the People’s Quarters,” The Blacksmiths Journal 8 no. 9 (September 1907): 29–31.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Our Sacrifices to the Modern Gods,” Locomotive Firemen’s and Enginemen’s Magazine 45 no. 2 (August, 1908): 243-247.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Love’s Dream and Life’s Reality,” The Tailor 23 no. 9 (April, 1912) 8-9.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “The History of a Silver Dollar,” The Tailor 23 no. 3 (October, 1912) 3-5.
  • Lizzie M. Holmes, “Twenty-Five Years After,” Mother Earth 7 no. 9 (November 1912): 300-305.
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