Dora Montefiore: the half-forgotten socialist feminist
In its early phase, her life-story was a bit like a Barbara Cartland-style romance.
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In its early phase, her life-story was a bit like a Barbara Cartland-style romance.
In its early phase, her life-story was a bit like a Barbara Cartland-style romance. In the late 1870s, the conventional young Englishwoman, Dorothy Fuller, bred in a Victorian manor house in Surrey and educated there by governesses and private tutors, goes out to Australia to visit relations and there meets and falls in love with a fine, rich, young Australian, George Barrow Montefiore. After a short trip home, she goes back to Australia to stay.
The first congress of the International was held at Geneva in 1866, and it ran into difficulties at its opening. Individual members, mainly Blanquist…