"The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance"

Year for Search
1906
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The Clarion
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Anarchist eutopia. “A Few Explanatory Notes by the Author” The Clarion, no. 798 (March 22, 1907): 1 calls it “more a Socialist tract than a story.” Blatchford denied being an anarchist, saying “I do not believe that the ideal of the Anarchist could be realised, because I do not believe that all men are honest and unselfish, and because, while there exists a minority of greedy, vain, unscrupulous self-seekers, it will be impossible to maintain order and justice in a Commonwealth where every man is allowed to be a law unto himself" (Altruism: Christ's Glorious Gospel of Love Against Man’s Dismal Science of Greed [London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1898], 12), but the novel fits the definition of Communist Anarchism, and his biographer said that he “described himself later as an Anarchist-Communist” (Laurence Thompson, Robert Blatchford: Portrait of an Englishman [London: Victor Gollancz, 1951], 102). 

Volume / Edition
nos. 779 - 98
Pagination
1, 7, 9, 7, 7, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 7, 7, 1, 7, 1, 1, 5, 1
Published Date

November 19, 1906 - March 22, 1907

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1906-7 Blatchford, Robert [Peel Glanville] (1851-1943). “The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance.” The Clarion, nos. 779 - 98 (November 19, 1906 - March 22, 1907): 1, 7, 9, 7, 7, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 7, 7, 1, 7, 1, 1, 5, 1 , 7, 1, 7, 1, 1, 5, 1. Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907. Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104. C, DLC, NcD

Anarchist eutopia. “A Few Explanatory Notes by the Author” The Clarion, no. 798 (March 22, 1907): 1 calls it “more a Socialist tract than a story.” Blatchford denied being an anarchist, saying “I do not believe that the ideal of the Anarchist could be realised, because I do not believe that all men are honest and unselfish, and because, while there exists a minority of greedy, vain, unscrupulous self-seekers, it will be impossible to maintain order and justice in a Commonwealth where every man is allowed to be a law unto himself" (Altruism: Christ's Glorious Gospel of Love Against Man’s Dismal Science of Greed [London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1898], 12), but the novel fits the definition of Communist Anarchism, and his biographer said that he “described himself later as an Anarchist-Communist” (Laurence Thompson, Robert Blatchford: Portrait of an Englishman [London: Victor Gollancz, 1951], 102). 

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Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907.  Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104.

Info Notes

"A Few Explanatory Notes by the Author” The Clarion, no. 798 (March 22, 1907): 1 calls it “more a Socialist tract than a story.” Blatchford denied being an anarchist, saying “I do not believe that the ideal of the Anarchist could be realised, because I do not believe that all men are honest and unselfish, and because, while there exists a minority of greedy, vain, unscrupulous self-seekers, it will be impossible to maintain order and justice in a Commonwealth where every man is allowed to be a law unto himself" (Altruism: Christ's Glorious Gospel of Love Against Man’s Dismal Science of Greed [London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1898], 12), but the novel fits the definition of Communist Anarchism, and his biographer said that he “described himself later as an Anarchist-Communist” (Laurence Thompson, Robert Blatchford: Portrait of an Englishman [London: Victor Gollancz, 1951], 102). 

Author Note

(1851-1943)

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