{"id":919,"date":"2008-11-03T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-11-03T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:56:24","slug":"919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/919\/","title":{"rendered":"New Edward Carpenter Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/edwardcarp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/edwardcarp.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Carpenter by Sheila Rowbotham<\/figcaption><\/figure>One of the Grumpy Vegan&#8217;s four favourite historical figures from the animal rights movement, Edward Carpenter, is the subject of a new biography by historian Sheila Rowbotham. (The other three are Frances Power Cobbe, BUAV&#8217;s; Anna Kingsford, medical doctor and anti-vivisectionist; and Henry Salt, founder of the Humanitarian League.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve yet to receive my copy of the biography. It&#8217;s been on order for at least two weeks and is scheduled for delivery later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the review is very positive and I&#8217;m greatly looking forward to reading <em>Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the first full-length biography of the most rivetingly interesting figure in late 19th-century radical politics. Edward Carpenter, alias the Saint in Sandals, the Noble Savage and, more recently, &#8220;gay godfather of the British left&#8221;, was a writer, philosopher and charismatic propagandist for a multitude of causes, including anti-pollution, women&#8217;s liberation, naturism, vegetarianism, animal rights, smallholdings, recycling. You name it, Carpenter espoused it from the start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have 21 books by and about Edward Carpenter in my <a href=\" http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/profile.php?view=grumpyvegan\">collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Grumpy Vegan&#8217;s four favourite historical figures from the animal rights movement, Edward Carpenter, is the subject of a new biography by historian Sheila Rowbotham. (The other three are Frances Power Cobbe, BUAV&#8217;s; Anna Kingsford, medical doctor and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/919\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,24],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-animal-protection-movement","tag-glimpses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}