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Henry Halliday Sparling (1860 – 9 September 1924) was a British journalist and socialist activist. Sparling became a socialist in 1878, and soon began lecturing on the topic. He began writing for Progress in 1884, and joined the Socialist League, serving on its executive, including a stint as secretary, and assisting William Morris with ...
Mar 25, 2023 · By 1923, Morris had married and divorced Henry Halliday Sparling and reconciled her unrequited romantic affections for George Bernard Shaw and John Quinn (Figure 7). Figure 7: From left to right, Morris, Henry Halliday Sparling, Emery Walker, and George Bernard Shaw rehearsing for a Socialist League entertainment, c. 1886.
Feb 14, 2017 · Within months Morris became engaged to Henry Halliday Sparling, secretary of the Socialist League, to the dismay of her mother. They married in 1890 but it lasted only four years, not helped...
Sep 29, 2017 · On the rebound, May promptly and disastrously married another socialist comrade, Henry Halliday Sparling.
Henry Halliday Sparling. (1860-1924), Editor and journalist; member of the Hammersmith Branch of the Socialist League and the Hammersmith Socialist Society; husband of Mary ('May') Morris. Sitter in 4 portraits Artist of 2 portraits. Likevotingis closed.
Jul 20, 2022 · May Morris was married to fellow Socialist Henry Halliday Sparling in 1890, but their marriage was tumultuous, and they divorced in 1898. She also had an on-again, off-again relationship with playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw that lasted about 15 years.
Henry Halliday Sparling, who was briefly and unhappily married to May Morris from 1890 to 1894, has often been portrayed as feeble and ineffectual. In this talk Peter Faulkner will discuss whether this is a fair judgment on the author of The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman.
