Emma Brooke (no relation), “New Woman” novelist (under the pseudonym E. Fairfax Byrne, she wrote A Superfluous Woman, Life the Accuser, and others) and Fabian socialist, who criticised H. G. Wells’s analysis of “the Sex-Question” as being from “an entirely middle-class point of view” and helped to draft the Fabians’ first statement in support of equal citizenship rights for women; born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, 22 December 1844, died in Weybridge, Surrey, 28 November 1926.
Surely, she’s *some* relation, even if it’s an extremely distant one…
Ha ha, that’s what I was going to post. We’re all aware of the extent of the International Brooke Conspiracy.
If you prefer your dead (or almost dead) socialists on carpets, I recommend a visit to this site: http://englishrussia.com/?p=485
Regards
Jonathan
Those are very good. I wonder if we should produce a range of Dead Socialist Carpets. People with big houses could collect all 241, including Emma Brooke (no relation).
Go for a whole range of ironic capitalist Dead Socialist Watch merchandise. Dead Socialist Cafepress Shop? You might have to fight Chumbawamba for the soundtrack CD, though, since their Singsong and a Scrap album covers Joe Hill, Emma Goldman and Kinder Scout mass trespassers.
Why not a range of Dead Socialist Watches, with a picture of the dead socialist on their faces, and their name emblazoned along the strap?
How about a Dead non-Socialist watch? Dr Hood?