Contr'un
An archangel identified
In l‘Opinion des Femmes, the author of this pamphlet, “Response to Satan on the Subject of Mr. Proudhon, by the Archangel Saint Michael,” is identified as Jeanne Deroin.
Year: 2012
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Louise Michel’s utopian fiction
Black Coat Press has just published translations of two of Louise Michel’s utopian novels, The Human Microbes (1887) and The New World (1888). They were part of a projected 6-volume science-fiction series. Brian Stableford, who […]
fiction
Han Ryner, “Love Victorious” (1917)
Love Victorious For ten years, Pierre Vaumeil passed for mad. Previously, he had been a savant, but the death of a beloved women had, everyone in the little town maintained, destroyed his mind. Often we […]
The Sex Question
Joshua King Ingalls, “The Home: Woman its True Owner” (1864)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″] [Joshua King Ingalls was best known as a land-reformer, but he was also involved with the struggle for women’s rights, and some of his most interesting writing happened when the […]
From the Archives
Joshua King Ingalls, “Memory and Compensation” (1853)
MEMORY AND COMPENSATION. BY J. K. INGALLS. How simple and how mysterious, how pleasing yet how awful, is this attribute of mind! A distinctive trait in man, its incipient manifestations are seen in all […]
From the Archives
Psychometrical Portrait of Joshua King Ingalls (1853)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] PSYCHOMETRICAL PORTRAIT. Given from impressions received while holding a sealed letter against her forehead. BY MRS. J. R. METTLER. J. K. Ingalls. This writer possesses […]
Contr'un
Working Translations blog
I have been featuring the list of “working translations” on the sidebar of this blog for quite awhile now, and it has reached the point of being a bit ungainly, taking up space that perhaps […]
Paschal Grousset
Paschal Grousset (1844-1909)
Works by Grousset: The Dream of an Irreconcilable (1869) [pdf] Paschal Grousset, Speech pronounced at the grave of Verdure (1873) [text] Speeches of Paschal Grousset and François Jourde on the Paris Commune (San Francisco, 1874) […]
From the Archives
Paschal Grousset, “Leaves from the Pocket-Book of a State Prisoner” (1880-1881)
LEAVES FROM THE POCKET-BOOK OF A STATE PRISONER BY PASCHAL GROUSSET ____ I. L’HEURE DE L’ABSINTHE WELL nigh exhausted with fatigue, I had fallen asleep in an armchair. It was about four in the […]
From the Archives
Paschal Grousset, “How the Paris Commune Made the Republic” (1879)
HOW THE PARIS COMMUNE MADE THE REPUBLIC. PASCHAL GROUSSET Ludwig Boerne said once, with reference to the revolution of ‘89, ‘One man only might have prevented it, namely Adam, supposing that he had been […]