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An active campaigner she spoke at socialist rallies, including that in [[Trafalgar Square]] on 13 November 1887, known as [[Bloody Sunday (1887)|Bloody Sunday]], which police broke up violently.{{sfn|Basdeo|2022|p=227}} |
An active campaigner she spoke at socialist rallies, including that in [[Trafalgar Square]] on 13 November 1887, known as [[Bloody Sunday (1887)|Bloody Sunday]], which police broke up violently.{{sfn|Basdeo|2022|p=227}} |
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In September 1886, the Fabian Society held a meeting in [https://www.archiseek.com/1879-andertons-hotel-fleet-street-london/ Anderton's Hotel] in [[Fleet Street]], London, of the various socialist organisations in the city to debate the possibility of forming a [[Political party |political party]] based upon the party model of politics that was being adopted in [[Continental Europe]]{{sfn|Boix|2007}}.{{harvnb|W|1986}} The article by 'W' was the second article in the initial part of the centenary issue of ''Freedom'' and was accompanied by ten other articles which were authored by HB, NW and VR, and in the case of HB and NW were co-authored by them. The remainder of the issue included an article by Nicholas Walter. [[Annie Besant]] made such a proposal and [[Hubert Bland]] seconded it while [[William Morris]] proposed and Wilson seconded an amendment to it. Their amendment was: {{blockquote|"But whereas the first duty of Socialism is to educate people to understand what their present position is and what the future might be, and to keep the principles of socialism steadily before them; and whereas no Parliamentary party can exist without compromise and concession, which would hinder that education and obscure those principles: it would be a false step for Socialists to attempt to take part in the Parliamentary contest."{{sfn|W|1986}}}} The amendment was defeated. Consequently Wilson "resigned from the Fabian executive in April 1887, and took no active part in the society for twenty years, though she maintained her membership."{{sfn|W|1986}} |
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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. She subsequently "resigned from the Fabian executive in April 1887, and took no active part in the society for twenty years, though she maintained her membership."{{harvnb|W|1986}}. The article by 'W' was the second article in the initial part of the centenary issue of ''Freedom'' and was accompanied by ten other articles which were authored by HB, NW and VR, and in the case of HB and NW were co-authored by them. The remainder of the issue included an article by Nicholas Walter. |
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Wilson maintained her involvement in the ''Hamstead Historic Club''. Initially, she had particularly admired [[William Morris]].{{sfn|Porter|2004|p=108}} However, then she changed her allegiance to [[Peter Kropotkin]].{{sfn|Porter|2004|p=108}} Correspondingly, from 1884 to 1896, she wrote extensively to [[Karl Pearson]] about anarchism, the Fabians, the Karl Marx Society and about her hoped-for''Russian Society''.{{sfn|Porter|2004|pp=108, 160, 171}}See the ''Pearson Papers'' (ref. 900) at [[University College London|UCL]] In particular, she asked his advice about reading Marx and tried to justify to him her view of human nature that "made anarchism the only moral system of politics."{{sfn|Porter|2004|p=108}} During this period, in January 1886, anarchist [[Peter Kropotkin]] was released from [[Clairvaux Prison]], when he received a call from London "to found an anarchist (English) paper", which Woodcock (1990) opined, "was very probably from Charlotte Wilson."{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=204}} |
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In early March, Kropotkin left for London.{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=204}} In the same month, or in early April, he and his wife met Wilson, Dr Burns Gibson, and one or two others in the context of a ''Freedom Group''.{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=204}} In the October, the first issue of [[Freedom newspaper|''Freedom'']] was published as a four-page sheet.{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=208}} Wilson became its editor and remained in the post until 1895.{{sfn|W|1986}} The newspaper's mission statement is stated in every issue, on page 2, and summarises the writers' view of anarchism: |
In early March, Kropotkin left for London.{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=204}} In the same month, or in early April, he and his wife met Wilson, Dr Burns Gibson, and one or two others in the context of a ''Freedom Group''.{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=204}} In the October, the first issue of [[Freedom newspaper|''Freedom'']] was published as a four-page sheet.{{sfn|Woodcock|1990|p=208}} Wilson became its editor and remained in the post until 1895.{{sfn|W|1986}} The newspaper's mission statement is stated in every issue, on page 2, and summarises the writers' view of anarchism: |
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*{{cite book |last1=Basdeo |first1=Stephen |title=English rebels and revolutionaries |date=2022 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |location=Barnseley, South Yorkshire |isbn=978 1 52678 590 9 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/English_Rebels_and_Revolutionaries/iQxyEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=English+rebels+and+revolutionaries&pg=PA20&printsec=frontcover |access-date=14 February 2026}} |
*{{cite book |last1=Basdeo |first1=Stephen |title=English rebels and revolutionaries |date=2022 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |location=Barnseley, South Yorkshire |isbn=978 1 52678 590 9 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/English_Rebels_and_Revolutionaries/iQxyEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=English+rebels+and+revolutionaries&pg=PA20&printsec=frontcover |access-date=14 February 2026}} |
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*{{cite book |last1=Bevir |first1=Mark |title=The making of British socialism |date=2011 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=978-0-691-15083-3 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Making_of_British_Socialism/e3CYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+making+of+British+socialism%22&pg=PP9&printsec=frontcover |access-date=12 February 2026}} |
*{{cite book |last1=Bevir |first1=Mark |title=The making of British socialism |date=2011 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=978-0-691-15083-3 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Making_of_British_Socialism/e3CYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+making+of+British+socialism%22&pg=PP9&printsec=frontcover |access-date=12 February 2026}} |
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*{{cite book |last1=Boix |first1=Carles |editor1-last=Boix |editor1-first=Carles |editor2-last=Stokes |editor2-first=Susan C. |title=The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-927848-0 |chapter=The emergence of parties and party systems}} |
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*{{Cite journal |last=Daniels |first=Kay |date=2003 |title=Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09612020300200353 |journal=Women's History Review |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=153–168 |doi=10.1080/09612020300200353 |issn=0961-2025|url-access=subscription }} |
*{{Cite journal |last=Daniels |first=Kay |date=2003 |title=Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09612020300200353 |journal=Women's History Review |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=153–168 |doi=10.1080/09612020300200353 |issn=0961-2025|url-access=subscription }} |
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*{{cite book |last1=Fabian Women's Group |editor1-last=Alexander |editor1-first=Sally |title=Women's Fabian Tracts |date=1988 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-01244-9 |chapter=Three years work, 1908-1911}} |
*{{cite book |last1=Fabian Women's Group |editor1-last=Alexander |editor1-first=Sally |title=Women's Fabian Tracts |date=1988 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-01244-9 |chapter=Three years work, 1908-1911}} |
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