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5 Lillian Harman (1870-1929): American free-love advocate and anarchist editor, she assisted her father, Moses, in publication of their journal, Lucifer.
6 Havelock Ellis (1859-1939): British doctor, sexual psychologist, Fabian socialist, eugenicist. His Sexual Inversion (1897) was one of the first scientific books not to treat homosexuality as a pathological condition.
7 Lucy E. Parsons (1853-1942): American anarchist, labor activist, lecturer, and editor.
8 Governor John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902.): governor of Illinois (1893-97), pardoned the three surviving Haymarket prisoners Samuel Fielden, Oscar Neebe, and Michael Schwab on June 26, 1893. Altgeld risked political suicide at the hands of powerful media giants such as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune by exposing the miscarriage of justice in the state’s original prosecution of the Haymarket men. The following year Altgeld’s refusal to send in troops to end the railway workers’ Pullman strike sealed his legendary heroic status in American labor history.
9 Free Society (1897-1901): San Francisco-based anarchist journal published by Abe Isaak. Most prominent English-language anarchist journal in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Abe Isaak (1856-1937) and Mary Isaak (1861-1934): Russian-born American anarchists, publishers and editors of weekly anarchist journal Firebrand. Their home was a center of local anarchist and radical political activity. EG later accused Isaak of political cowardice when he tried to “tone down” her sympathetic portrait of Leon Czolgosz, McKinley’s assassin, published in Isaak’s newspaper Free Society (see LML, 1970, 313).
CHAPTER XVIII
1 Ernest Howard Crosby (1856-1907): American reformer, “a leading single-taxer”: single taxers were often libertarians who believed in minimal government, only enough to collect the single tax. EG and other anarchists found them politically congenial. “Tolstoyan anarchism”: although Russian novelist and philosopher Leo Tolstoy did not call himself an anarchist, followers were influenced by his pacifism and sympathy for the poor.
CHAPTER XIX
1 Kate Austen (1864-1902): American anarchist, women’s rights and free-love advocate.
CHAPTER XX
1 Robert Reitzel (1849-1898): German-born American anarchist, poet, critic, translator, defender of Haymarket anarchists. EG visited Reitzel in Detroit shortly before his death (see LML, 1970, 215).
2 EG had been invited to London to be one of the speakers at the Haymarket anniversary meeting (see LML, 1970, 249).
3 In their military engagement with the Dutch settlers in South Africa (the Boer War, 1899-1902.), Britain sought to extend its imperial reach over the rich gold mines of the Boer republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. After an initial success, two years of guerrilla warfare ensued until the Boer resistance was brutally put down.
4 Henry “Harry” May Kelly (1871-1953): American anarchist, printer, lecturer living temporarily in England when EG visited in 1898.
CHAPTER XXI
1 Solidarity (1892-1898): first English-language anarchist paper in New York. EG also helped to support the paper financially.
2 Tom Mann (1856-1941): British anarchist, trade unionist, popular public speaker, and organizer.
3 Hippolyte Havel (1869-1950): Czech anarchist, journalist.
4 Richard Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902): German/Austrian psychiatrist, authored widely influential Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
5 Fernand Pelloutier (1867-1901): French anarchist and journalist who argued that trade unions or syndicates could be the primary force for social change.
6 Victor Dave (1845-1922): Belgian-born anarchist, writer, and advocate of attentat or revolutionary deed.
7 Michael Bakunin (1814-1876): Russian revolutionary and anarchist theorist who led anti-authoritarian opposition to Karl Marx, leading to his expulsion from the First