Edward Carpenter was born August 29th, 1844 in Brighton, Sussex, England. Carpenter was educated at Brighton College, where his father was governor, followed by time at Trinity Hall. Carpenter later became a curate for the Church of England, which he left in 1874 to lecture. In 1868 Carpenter came into a copy of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" that would become a great influence on his life. Around this time he moved into a house in Sheffield with George Merrill and the two men lived together as a couple without hiding it, despite fallout from the Oscar Wilde trial. Author E. M. Forster indicated that Merrill served as inspiration for his novel "Maurie". One of Carpenter's many accomplishments was his efforts to campaign against sexual orientation discrimination. In 1908 he published a book on homosexuality, The Intermediate Sex, which influenced LGBT movements activists such as Harry Hay.
Read more at the
Edward Carpenter Archive and
Polari Magazine.
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