ROBERT BLATCHFORD
(Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford)
The first quotation was made shortly after the launching of The Clarion in 1891. The newspaper was relatively successful but while England moved more to the left, socialism was not embraced by Englishmen. Later, Blachford concluded that the conversion would not likely take place soon.
This book became the basic English textbook on socialism. Astoundingly, it sold over 2 million copies at a time when few books other than the Bible ever sold in that quantity. The fact that it was so popular alarmed many of the more conservative politicians of the day.
This book became the basic English textbook on socialism. Astoundingly, it sold over 2 million copies at a time when books other than the Bible ever sold in that quantity. The fact that it was so popular alarmed many of the more conservative politicians of the day. A “sweater” was an owner or a manager of a “sweat shop”—a high pressure factory with poor and unsafe working conditions where every once of productivity is “sweated” out of the workers.
This book became the basic English textbook on socialism. Astoundingly, it sold over 2 million copies at a time when few books other than the Bible ever sold in that quantity. The fact that it was so popular alarmed many of the more conservative politicians of the day.
Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford was an English socialist campaigner, journalist, and author in the United Kingdom. He was also noted as a prominent atheist, nationalist and opponent of eugenics. In the early 1920s, after the death of his wife, he turned towards spiritualism.
