An Anarchist Woman

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document . An Anarchist Woman By HUTCHINS HAPGOOD Author of "The Autobiography of a Thief," "The Spirit of Labor" NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1909 Copyright, 1909, by Duffield and Company "The best government is that which makes itself superfluous." Goethe CONTENTS I. School and Factory 1 II. Domestic Service 12 III. Domestic Service (Continued) 26 IV. Adventures in Sex 48 V. Marie's Salvation 65 VI. Terry 73 VII. The Meeting 94 VIII. The Rogues' Gallery 120 IX. The Salon 147 X. More of the Salon 186 XI. The End of the Salon 217 XII. Marie's Attempt 239 XIII. Marie's Failure 261 XIV. Marie's Revolt 280 XV. Terry's Finish 299 PREFACE It is possible that in fifty years people now called "anarchists" will have in America as respectable a place as they now occupy in France. When we are more accustomed to social thought, we shall not regard those who radically differ from us, as mad dogs or malevolent idiots. We may, indeed, still look on them as mistaken, but what now seems to us their insanity or peculiar atrociousness will vanish with our growing understanding and experience. When we become less crude in civilisation, they will seem less crude to us. When, with growing culture, we see things more nearly as they are, the things we see, including the anarchists, will seem more sympathetic. This book is not an attempt to justify any person or set of persons. It is not a political or economic pamphlet. It represents an effort to throw light on what may be called the temperament of revolt; by portraying the mental life of an individual, and incidentally of more than one individual, I have hoped to make more clear the natural history of the anarchist; to show under what conditions, in connection with what personal qualities, the anarchistic habit of mind arises, and to point out, suggestively, rather than explicitly, the nature, the value, and the tragic limitation of the social rebel. An Anarchist Woman School and Factory When I first met the heroine of this tale, Marie, she was twenty-three years old, yet had lived enough for a woman of more than twice her age; indeed, few women of any age ever acquire the amount of mental experience possessed by this factory hand and…