Dora Marsden: She Uses Supplication
Category: Freewoman
The Reader Critic on Remy De Gourmont
From The Little Review Vol. V. April 1919 No.11From The Little Review Vol. V. April 1919 No.11 The Reader Critic Helen West Heller, Canton, Illinois: on The De Gourmont Number, The Little Review Vol. V. February-March No. 10-11 The De Gourmont number, great! I do not just admit the fineness of Ezra Pound, I am […]
Dora Marsden, Hatless and Disheveled
INCIDENTS OF THE RAID DISAPPOINTED SUFFRAGISTS ONLY ONE OF THEM ADMITTED TO THE HOUSE TWELVE ARRESTS In accordance with the statement contained in Miss Pankhurst’s letter to the Prime Minister on Monday, the members of the Women’s Social and Political Union assembled in large numbers at Caxton Hall yesterday afternoon for the purpose of appointing […]
The Remonstrance and An Ego Alone for All Time
“I, AN INDIVIDUAL, AN EGO –” “I, an individual, an Ego, alone for all time, I want to vote.” So runs the basic form of argumentation recommended to deep- thinking suffragists in a recent letter from their national headquarters. It reveals at once the extreme individualism with which anti-suffragists have often charged the movement. It […]
Dora Marsden and the Power of Thought
THERE could be no more forcible illustration of the power of thought than is to be so clearly seen in the wonderful change in the last few years, in the position of woman and her relation to the economic world. Not so very many years ago she was considered necessary, indeed, to the life of […]
Bondwoman by Dora Marsden
The Freewoman: No. 1, Vol. 1, November 23, 1911. by Dora Marsden are distinguished from Freewomen by a spiritual distinction. are the women who are not spiritual entities – who are not individuals. They are complements merely. By habit of thought, by form of activity, and largely by preference, they round off […]
Dora Marsden and the Malthusian League
The thought that one’s specific interests are only shared by those who share all of one’s interests leads without exception to disappointment. We find our friends where we find them, and sometimes we don’t get to decide who their friends are or would be. We know that Dora Marsden never had any children, but why […]
Dora Marsden on World War One, Suffrage and Nationalism
Under the heading “Cassandra and the War,” the Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) for January 6 1915 quotes Dora Marsden from The Egoist Volume I Number 19 (October 1 1914) speaking about World War I. At the start of this War to End All Wars, the Women’s Political Suffrage Union had stopped publishing their newspaper […]