Charlotte Wilson
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Charlotte M. Wilson (born Charlotte Mary Martin) was an anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade. She remained editor of Freedom until 1895.
Wilson was born in 1854 to a well-to-do surgeon, and was educated at Newnham College at Cambridge. She married Arthur Wilson and the couple moved to London. Wilson joined the the Fabian Society in 1884. In 1886, parliamentarians within the Fabian Society proposed that it organize as a political party; William Morris and Wilson opposed the motion, but were defeated. Wilson then resigned from the Society in April 1887, continuing her association with the anarchists from the Society.
In 1886, Wilson and Kropotkin co-founded Freedom, an anarchist newspaper. The newspaper's mission statement is stated in every issue, on page 2, and summarises the writers' view of anarchism:
"Anarchists work towards a society of mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. We reject all government and economic repression. This newspaper, published continuously since 1936, exists to explain anarchism more widely and show that only in an anarchist society can human freedom thrive."
Her publication Work (1888) was mistakenly attributed to Kropotkin for many years.[1]
[edit] References and notes
- ^ "Book Review: Charlotte M. Wilson's Anarchist Essays", NEFAC, Dec. 2, 2002, available at http://nefac.net/node/166.
Other references:
- Anarchist Essays Wilson, Charlotte. Freedom Press ISBN 0-900384-99-9
- The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists Quayle, John. Flamingo, 1978 ISBN 0-586-08225-5
