Harrison Royden Editor Contributor E S Beesly (1 results)

1971. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 292pp. Notes. Dust jacket is lightly edgeworn and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the title page. "This is a collection of the writing of those Englishmen who defied the hysteria of the time and wrote in support of the Paris Commune. Contents include E. S. Beesly A Word for France, Robinet A French Postivist on the Commune (a pamphlet introduced by Beesly and cited by Marx in the Civil War in France), two articles by J. H. Bridges, two articles by Frederic Harrison from the Fortnightly, a short selection of pro-communard programmes and articles by proletarian writers; extracts from Reynolds and the Republican; the Law of the Revolution, a pamphlet by Tom Smith, secretary of the Nottingham brance of the International; and extracts from William Morris's Pilgrims of Hope". Time Period 1871. Contributors include E. S. Beesly, J. H. Bridges, Frederic Harrison, William Morris. Locale: Paris--France. (History, Articles, Communal Living, Essays, History--England, History--France, Pamphlets).…