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  Edward Carpenter Biographical Note
Edward Carpenter was a pioneering socialist and radical prophet of a new age of fellowship in which social relations would be transformed by a new spiritual consciousness.
Carpenter's later years were characterised by his continued writings on pacifism, socialism, and trade unionism and he became a hero to the first generation of Labour politicians.
Carpenter was involved in the early days of the first 'progressive' school in England at Abbotsholme in Derbyshire with Dr. Cecil Reddie, which in turn inspired the foundation of schools such as Bedales and Gordonstoun.
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 summary:  Edward Carpenter
Carpenter believed that Urnings are members of a third sex, and that their position as intermediates between male and female gives them unique and valuable talents.
Carpenter was born into a well to do family, and he enjoyed a Cambridge education, but he eschewed the trappings of wealth because he believed that the first step toward Utopia, or the "New Life," was the elimination of the class hierarchy.
Carpenter continued to write prolifically on socialist and homosexual subjects, and even though little of his work was truly original, personal warmth and utopian idealism suffused his prose and won him a loyal audience.
www.gayhistory.com /rev2/factfiles/ffcarpenter.htm   (390 words)

  
 Index - edwardcarpenter.net
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or a quick glance through the bibliography, will show that Carpenter left behind a quantity of both published and unpublished music.
Carpenter's own biography and pen-portrait of George Merrill - the story of how they met, a description of Merrill's early life, and a good source document for social historians keen to learn about life for a young and attractive gay man in the slums of a Victorian northern town.
www.edwardcarpenter.net   (880 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, anthologist, and an early homosexual activist.
Carpenter left the church in 1874 and became a lecturer in astronomy and music, moving to Leeds as part of an early outreach programme.
Carpenter achieved growing acclaim for his Whitman-esque poetry and became involved in defending Fred Charles of the Walsall Anarchists in 1892.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Carpenter   (1061 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter
In 1874 Edward Carpenter left the Church and became a lecturer on astronomy, science and music for the recently established University Extension Scheme.
Carpenter believed that homosexuality was innate and should not be classed as a sin.
Carpenter was a pacifist and opposed both the Boer War and the First World War.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUcarpenter.htm   (1517 words)

  
 Reincarnation fo Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter was born in1844 and died on June 28, 1929 (exactly forty years before Stonewall), long before what we think of as the currently modern age.
Carpenter was perhaps originally "politicized" into sexual liberation as a boy observing the lives of his six sisters.
Part of the discovery of reading Edward Carpenter's writings is seeing that there is not so much difference between people on the inside, no matter what their ages or time in history.
www.tobyjohnson.com /CarpenterPreface.html   (2617 words)

  
 EDWARD CARPENTER ELLET-
Prominent among the various distinguished members of the famous Ellet family of American patriots may be included Edward Carpenter Ellet of Mayfield, the father of Alfred W. Ellet, vice-president, and Charles Ellet, cashier of The Stanford Bank at Palo Alto and Mayfield.
Edward C. Ellet then went to Winnemucca, Nev., where he was Indian agent for a year; from Winnemucca, during this period, in the due course or his official duties, he made a trip to San Francisco and back on horseback, after which he returned to Eldorado and resumed banking.
Edward Carpenter Ellet has lived a full, useful and remarkable life, and now, as the sun is about to set on his earthly activities he hands down the glories of a noble ancestry undimmed and untarnished to a worthy progeny, while the nation is left stronger and better for his strenuous, patriotic and illustrious career.
www.mariposaresearch.net /santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/ecellet.html   (4007 words)

  
 John Edward Carpenter
Carpenter's claim produced as much feed crop and roughness as he needed and would have produced more but there was no incentive for him to raise it because there was no market for it, save as he might exchange with a neighbor for beef.
Carpenter first became interested in politics he was a stanch and uncompromising republican, and on one occasion declined to vote for his prospective father-in-law, who was on the other big party ticket.
Carpenter does not belong to any religious body, he is a believer in religion and charitable and humanitarian work and has always been a generous contributor to worthy movements.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/c/carpenje.html   (1466 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter and the Age of Aquarius - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
However, why Carpenter picked 1936 is a mystery, as the Vernal Equinox Point was very firmly in the constellation of Pisces in 1936 - as it still is today.
Carpenter's thoughts on the Vernal Equinox are to be found in Chapter Three, "The Symbolism of the Zodiac." These are similar in tone to some of Jung's thoughts on the Age of Aries, written several decades letter and without acknowledging Carpenter.
It's possible that Carpenter's incorrect use of a Platonic Months idea may have contributed to his later highly inaccurate start date of 1936 for the beginning of the Age of Aquarius...
www.geocities.com /astrologyages/edwardcarpenteraquarius.htm   (1890 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Edward Carpenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A fl and white photograph of Edward Carpenter and George Merrill is in the Sheffield City Archives and is reproduced in Colin Spencer, (1995).
Edward Carpenter and his friend Laurence Houseman founded the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology which was formally instituted in April, 1914.
Edward Carpenter was listed at number 59 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in The Pink Paper, 26th.
www.knittingcircle.org.uk /edwardcarpenter.html   (449 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
EDWARD CARPENTER OF TEANECK; N.Y.C. The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/8/1992; Patricia Alex, Record Staff Writer; 403 words
Edward Carpenter Named Vice President, Asia Pacific for TRW Automotive.
Edward A. Daley of Natick, 74, carpenter, vet.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
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 Amazon.ca: Pagan & Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning: Books: Edward Carpenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was a well-regarded English poet and scholar.
Carpenter was close friend to E. Forster and Laurence Houseman and was a member of The Fabian Society.
In his British imperialistic furor to spread civilization, Carpenter also predicts the emergence of a "Common Life" beyond self-consciousness, blasting the selfish motives of capitalism and actually hailing the practices of early Christian communities and the movements of the Communists in eastern Europe.
www.amazon.ca /Pagan-Christian-Creeds-Origin-Meaning/dp/0787301477   (1035 words)

  
 edwardcarpenterforum.org
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was a Romantic Socialist, a farmer and an advocate of the Simple Life.
Through his many friendships, Edward Carpenter's transversed again and again the divisions of class, gender, sexuality, race and creed.
Appreciative of this, the Edward Carpenter Forum welcomes a diversity of men and women, from the United Kingdom and abroad, and representative of a wide range of interest groups; social, political or academic.
www.edwardcarpenterforum.org   (325 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter
Born in England, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Carpenter also was ordained a priest and for a time served as a curate at Cambridge.
Carpenter is credited with being one of the first public figures to assert that same-sex love was natural, wholesome and made a positive contribution to society.
In 1891 Carpenter met George Merrill on a train trip, the two were instantly drawn to each other and remained lovers until Merrill’s death in 1928.
www.queertheory.com /histories/c/carpenter_edward.htm   (510 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Carpenter, Edward
The attachment between the two men was undoubtedly one of real affection, but it also enabled Carpenter to achieve one of his long-standing goals in life: the realization of a bond between men that refused to be hindered by the rigid class divisions of English society.
Carpenter's own writings tell a great deal about his life and the subtleties of passion that continually motivated and conflicted it.
Carpenter's reputation, however, rests largely on three important radical tracts dealing with issues of sex and gender relations in society, Love's Coming-of-Age (1896), The Intermediate Sex (1906), and Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folks (1914).
www.glbtq.com /literature/carpenter_e,2.html   (773 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter Named Vice President, Asia Pacific for TRW Automotive
Carpenter will be based at TRW's Asia Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, China and oversee the operations of more than 25 plants in the region.
Carpenter most recently served as vice president of purchasing for the global TRW Automotive business, and has held various Company assignments in operations, program management and purchasing in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Carpenter will report to executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer Steve Lunn, who said, "Ed has a wealth of experience within TRW across multiple operations and functions, and has led global organizations, including joint ventures.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2005/10/28/146895.html   (408 words)

  
 Guide to the Carpenter Archive
In his life Edward Carpenter wrote about a huge variety of subjects, so unless you know exactly what you are looking for, it can be difficult to find your way to texts that interest you.
But if you want to do a bit of research first, and learn a bit about Carpenter and his works, there are a few pages on the website which can give a quick overview, and perhaps point you towards the books you want to read.
The Edward Carpenter Archive pages are very text heavy and it can sometimes be difficult to read large blocks of text on a computer screen.
www.edwardcarpenter.net /ecguide.htm   (705 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter Criticism
In the following excerpt, Henderson profiles Carpenter as a pioneer of modernist ideas who exerted a discernible influence on a number contemporaries.
In the following essay, Pierson recounts the development of Carpenter's socialist ideas, and examines their influence on a younger generation.
In the following essay, Kellogg takes as his point of departure a comment from E. Forster regarding the influence of Carpenter on his novel Maurice, and then proceeds to examine that influence with regard to specific structural aspects of the novel.
www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Edward_Carpenter   (313 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Edward Carpenter": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Edward Carpenter: The Uses of Utopia "There is another world - it is this one."' It is all too easy to write...
Aspects of Weininger's theories were taken up by Edward Carpenter, whose extensive writings on sexuality had already given him a key role among those who were trying to...
Edward Carpenter, who met the Salts in the middle 188os,...
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 Edward Carpenter « ReadySteadyBlog « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One of my Books of the Week this week is Chushichi Tsuzukis' biography of Edward Carpenter.
Carpenter (1844-1929) is a fascinating figure: "a utopian gay man who lived for much of his life in a large rural house amongst a group of his friends and lovers.
EM Forster described him as 'a poet, a prose writer, a mystic, a manual labourer, an anti-vivisectionist, an art critic'" (quote from the Edward Carpenter Community website).
www.readysteadybook.com /Blog.aspx?permalink=20061017031718   (701 words)

  
 Portrait of Edward Carpenter. : COBURN, (Alvin Langdon).
The best-known photographic portrait of Carpenter in fine state, signed by both participants.
While not as original as a photographic print, the process of gravure was, in the hands of people such as Coburn, capable of producing very high quality images.
A handsome image of Carpenter the co-creator, with sexologist Havelock Ellis, of the educational propaganda body The British Society For The Study Of Sex Pyschology and in effect a founding father of what came to be known as the Gay Liberation Movement.
www.maggs.com /title/MO32875.asp   (115 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter's House in Hove - South East England - UK Attraction
Edward Carpenter's House in Hove - South East England - UK Attraction
Edward Carpenter was an English socialist poet who lived in this fine old house i the heart of the seaside town of Hove.
Carpenter was also an early homosexual activist and there has always been a strong gay community on the south coast particularly around Brighton ever since.
www.ukattraction.com /south-east-england/edward-carpenters-house.htm   (176 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter 1844—1929 - Cambridge University Press
This is the first full-scale biography of Edward Carpenter, an 'eminent Victorian' who played an intriguing role in the revival of Socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth century.
A homosexual, he grappled with the problems of sexual alienation above all, and emerged as the foremost advocate of the homosexual cause at a time when it was a social 'taboo'.
This study, based upon letters and many other personal documents, reveals much of Carpenter's personal life which has hitherto remained obscure, including his 'comradeship' with some of his working-men friends and his influence upon such notable literary figures as Siegfried Sassoon, E. Forster and D. Lawrence.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521019591   (188 words)

  
 Edward Carpenter Summary
Edward Carpenter(29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, anthologist, and an early homosexual activist.
Early life Born in Brighton, Carpenter was educated like all his brothers at Brighton College where his father was a governor...
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 Edward Carpenter Bibliography
This bibliography is taken from My Days and Dreams (Carpenter's Autobiography) published in 1916.
It lists those publications issued before that date, as well as a number of articles and memoirs written about Carpenter by others who knew him well.
Being the second Anniversary Lecture of the Larmer Sugden Memorial, delivered at the William Morris Labour Church, at Leek, by Edward Carpenter, and printed at Hanley, in Staffordshire, 1903.
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 Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), Writer on social subjects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Writer and advocate of libertarian beliefs; after a brief career at Cambridge, worked as a University Extension lecturer in the north of England; settled at Millthorpe, Derbyshire, 1883, where he combined his literary work with the simple life of market gardening and sandal-making.
Influenced by Whitman and Socialism, Carpenter’s works include Towards Democracy, 1883-1902, England’s Ideal, 1885, and Civilisation, its Cause and Cure, 1889.
From 1893, he lived openly with his working class lover, George Merrill, his rejection of conventional notions of social and sexual behaviour having a profound impact on such younger followers as E.M. Forster.
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 Carpenter,Edward Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
These notes, in a very casual way, and with long intervals in between, were continued down to the time of this work.
A review of Carpenter's essays on modern science reads: Edward Carpenter is a seer.
So say those who know him best; and the reader of this little volume of essays, in which he has put his ripest thoughts, will be inclined to agree with that judgment.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Carpenter,Edward   (795 words)

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