{"title":"Anarchism \u0026 Radical Politics","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"black-clementina-an-agitator-1895-4940","title":"An Agitator.","description":"A Novel.\u003cbr\u003eNew York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers Publishers.. 1895.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst American edition published the year after the London first edition. pp. 177, [1bl, 6 publisher's adverts]. Original beige cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in silver and brown. Some soiling and rubbing and internally there is some foxing but overall a nice copy. Front free endpaper is signed Clementina Black so this is either the author's own copy or was signed by her for someone else. Rare in commerce and comparatively uncommon institutionally, OCLC recording sixteen copies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Agitator\u003c\/em\u003e is Black's most overtly political work of fiction. It is about an engineer who becomes radicalized through the socialist movements of the late nineteenth century and embarks on a life of trade unionism, political agitation and strike action. Eleanor Marx (who was a friend of Black) described the novel as \"a realistic account of the British working-class movement\". Clementina Black was deeply involved in the world of socialist campaigning and suffragism but she was aware of the short-comings of the mostly middle-class leaders of these movements and An Agitator provides some wryly satirical digs at their impractical idealism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"BLACK, Clementina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193325166969,"sku":"4940","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4940_1.jpg?v=1777655246"},{"product_id":"black-clementina-caroline-1908-4941","title":"Caroline","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLondon: John Murray.. 1908.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eInscribed by the author to her brother.\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. [4], 295 [1bl, 4 publisher's adverts]. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white to upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Joints and edges of boards rubbed and head and foot of spine bumped. Some marking to boards. Quite heavily foxed. Front free endpaper is inscribed \"Ernest Black from C.B. January 1908\". \u003cbr\u003eClementina Black is best known as an activist and propagandist in the socialist, trade union and women's suffrage movements, but she made her living as a writer of political tracts and novels. Apart from the overtly political The Agitator, her novels are historical romances. Caroline is set in the eighteenth century and concerns a wealthy young woman and her suitors. Unsurprisingly, this led to critics making comparisons with Jane Austen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"BLACK, Clementina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193325232505,"sku":"4941","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4941_1.jpg?v=1777655260"}],"url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/collections\/anarchism-radical-politics.oembed","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}