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Another picture of Edward Carpenter, probably at his cottage near Sheffield. Dig the sandals! Apparenly he was a big fan of the Rational Dress movement. He also happened to be an early gay activist and socialist practising free love and pacifism and vegetarianism in the late Victorian era and writing and publishing books – before and after Oscar Wilde, although the difference here is he preferred working class blokes, the issue with Oscar was he preferred his peers which caused scandal.

Anyway, Edward was a brave man.

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