Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | 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 CHAPTER PAGE 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.