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George Merrill (16 August 1867 – 16 January 1928) was the life partner of Edward Carpenter, an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher and early activist for gay rights. Merrill was a working-class man who was born and grew up in the slums of Sheffield; he had no formal education.
4 days ago · It was also at Millthorpe that Carpenter would meet George Merrill, the working class man 22 years his junior who became his soulmate and companion for close to four decades. As a gay couple living together openly and unapologetically in Victorian England, Carpenter and Merrill‘s relationship was nothing short of radical.
On his return from India in 1891, he met George Merrill, a working-class man also from Sheffield, 22 years his junior, and after the Ferneyhoughs left Millthorpe in 1893 Merrill became Carpenter's companion. The two remained partners for the rest of their lives, [20] cohabiting from 1898. [10]
Feb 24, 2022 · Remembering Edward Carpenter, a Victorian Socialist and Gay Rights Advocate. Historian Sheila Rowbotham remembers Edward Carpenter, a poet, philosopher, socialist, and pioneer of gay rights amid the repression of Victorian England. The grave of Edward Carpenter and his partner George Merrill at the Mount Cemetery in Guildford, Surrey, England.
Feb 22, 2022 · Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) challenged many social norms in his relationship with same-sex partner George Merrill. News. By. Alec Evans Community Reporter. The couple's grave in Mount...
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Mar 31, 2019 · Carpenter composed his treatise on love two decades after he met his own great love, George Merrill, at the ripe age of fifty. They would spend the remainder of life together. Several months after Merrill’s death, Carpenter suffered a paralytic stroke.
May 24, 2023 · George Merrill came from the slums of Sheffield, with the proletarian bona fides Carpenter romanticized in his pamphlets and pined after privately; he was sexually confident, experienced,...
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