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 […]
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 […]
45th issue of the egoist journal “Stand Alone”. 16 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, Saddle-stitched Limited to 66 copies. Available from: Underworld Amusements “Anarchists are an interesting body of people whom governments take too seriously and who, unfortunately, do not take themselves seriously enough.” So begins Dora Marsden in this essay from The Egoist. The Illusion of Anarchism was […]
From 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 glad of him. What Roger Heller calls his […]
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 […]
A Criticism of the Philosophy of Egoism by Henry Meulen To the Editor of The Egoist. Madam, The sudden change in the title of your journal fills me with misgivings: I was not aware that the Stirnerian Egoism had taken so strong a hold upon you, and I hasten to beg you to permit me […]
We are not an advice-bureau and give no recipes for conduct, though we do not deny ourselves the pleasure of expressing opinions upon other people’s conduct or even of saying what we would have done, or would do, in a given case. On the other hand, if anyone can cull useful advice from these pages […]
The beginning of the New Year will serve as a sufficient apology f0r stating afresh the ambitions of this journal and detailing what one considers to be its unique a n d supremely important task: one for the execution of which we can see no evidence of minds other than our own being forthcoming. There […]
Anent The Decalogue “LOVE ONE ANOTHER” by Dora Marsden PERHAPS the most striking illustration of the unquestioning habit of mind common to us all is the tone in which we use the word “immoral.” Actions may be all things else and be tolerated, but if they are voted “immoral” their case is closed: they are […]
