Gay carpenter

Edward Carpenter was born in in Brighton to a middle-class naval family. He grew up with nine siblings. All of his brothers pursued careers in the armed forces, while he decided to go to university. He was admitted to Cambridge University in

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In he began attending Brighton College. Domestic pursuits included learning the piano and taking long horse-rides out over the Downs. Having left Brighton in , he was inspired by meeting the American 19th century gay poet Walt Whitman in Carpenter purchased a property near Sheffield and began promoting a socialist lifestyle that included market gardening and sandal making!

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