Dora Marsden spent the last decades of her life in Dumfries hospital. From March 2023 to January 2024, Dumfries Museum features an exhibit titled “The Women of Dumfries” that includes information and images about Dora Marsden. This information, and much more, is found in Dora Marsden: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit (1882 – 1960) by […]
Two minor previously undocumented ephemeral mentions of Dora Marsden, editor of The Egoist. First, two lines from the book-length poem The Atheist by George Bedborough (London: Garden City Press, 1919)… “Dora Marsden writes well and so do her friends, / But The Egoist sometimes to crankiness tends.” Second, an advertisement for The Egoist which appeared […]
Der Geist issue 5 is now available! That creates a total of 930 pages of egoism from 1845 to 1945, with “lost” works reprinted, new or lost translations in every issue, rare photos and images, and new research and writing. Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon.UK | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org DER GEIST issue five features the first publication of original […]
Dora Marsden (1882 – 1960) broke with what she called the “skirt movement.” She saw that the leaders of the Womens’ Suffrage and Political Union may have called their journal Votes for Women but their actions were in the service of the leaders of the Womens’ Suffrage and Political Union. Dora wanted a new movement […]
25. 1. 1913 My Dear Mrs. [Frances Maule] Bjorkman: Your letter of Jan. 14th has just arrived & I am sending you a hasty note with the outgoing mail. [Miss Kenton’s?] letter has not yet arrived & I therefore do not know the [?] of your deliberations. I am satisfied for the moment with the […]
A FEMINIST DISCIPLE OF NIETZSCHE The feminist movement has evolved its ‘superwoman’ or, rather, the superwoman is the ultimate expression of that new philosophy of feminism preached by the very latest prophetess, Dora Marsden, in her daring “humanist review,” the London Freewoman. With its mid-October issue, The Freewoman ceased temporarily to exist,, but we shall […]
Maureen Wright has reviewed A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden 1882-1960 by Les Garner (Portland: Union of Egoists, 2019) for the journal Women’s History Review. The first page of her review may be seen here. A quote: “Dora Marsden is a key figure among such pioneers [Freethinkers, Socialists, and the feminist avante-garde].”
This image of Dora Marsden from Votes for Women has not been reprinted since its first publication on July 22, 1910.
The Union of Egoists website went live early 2016 but officially announced April 1st of that year. The entire chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and myself that crystalized the idea was printed at the end of Der Geist Issue 1, and titled “A Unique Conversation”, published in the following year. Der Geist […]
Author: Dora Marsden Introduction: Trevor Blake Publisher: Union of Egoists Pages: 390 Size: 6×9″ Release date: March, 2019 ISBN: 978-1944651206 Essays by Dora Marsden (1882 – 1960) from her journal The Egoist. Introduction, annotations, glossary and index by Trevor Blake, author of Dora Marsden Bibliography. Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon.UK | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org What a blight it […]
