'Carpenter's Cambridge'
- Saturday, September 19th, 2009
The Edward Carpenter Forum is pleased to
announce a day at Cambridge
on Saturday, September 19, 2009
The ten years that Edward Carpenter spent at Cambridge
(1864-1874) brought him into formative contact with the
radicals Henry and Millicent Fawcett, with eminent Christian
Socialist F.D.Maurice, and with intellectual influences as diverse as
the republicanism of Mazzini and the idealism of Plato's Phaedrus. Cambridge saw
also his first love affair, and the momentous encounter with Walt
Whitman's poetry, ultimately proving a time of crisis and
transformation that would lead him far from academia.
In later years his link with Cambridge continued through friendships
with E.M.Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Roger Fry and Charles Ashbee.
The day will include a visit to Trinity Hall College, where Carpenter studied, and to
St. Edwards' Church, where he served as priest.
In the afternoon we shall follow the river
out to Granchester and 'the Orchard' tearooms made famous
by poet Rupert Brooke.
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