My Days and Dreams
Edward Carpenter
Read by Sue Anderson
Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against established society. Two such places were Berkeley, California in the early 1960s and Millthorpe, England in the 1880s. Millthorpe was home to Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), an English socialist poet, philosopher, and activist who abandoned his upper crust life and university sinecure to grow market vegetables and handcraft sandals for a living. Carpenter’s search for the well-lived life, his passions and concerns resonate uncannily with the mood of long ago Berkeley. In this frank memoir, Carpenter explores how he “escaped from the domination of Civilization in its two most fatal and much-detested forms, respectability and cheap intellectualism.” - Summary by Sue Anderson (0 hr 1 min)
Chapters
| Preface; Brighton, Part 1 | 23:53 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Brighton, Part 2 | 32:58 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| My Parents | 20:13 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Cambridge, Part 1 | 36:35 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Cambridge, Part 2 | 42:31 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| University Extension and Northern Towns | 46:07 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Bradway amd Towards Democracy | 23:33 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Manual Work and Market-Gardening | 34:45 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Sheffield and Socialism; Addendum to Ch. VII | 35:01 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Trade and Philosophy | 23:48 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Millthorpe and Household Life, Part 1 | 30:18 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Millthorpe and Household Life, Part 2 | 18:36 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Millthorpiana, Part 1 | 22:04 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Millthorpiana, Part 2 | 31:16 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| The Story of My Books, Part 1 | 25:39 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| The Story of My Books, Part 2 | 25:19 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Personalities - I, Part 1 | 24:07 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Personalities - I, Part 2 | 32:31 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Personalities - II, Part 1 | 27:45 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Personalities - II, Part 2 | 20:09 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| London and Lectures | 35:05 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Translations and Translators | 27:13 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Rural Conditions | 45:58 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| How the World Looks at Seventy | 35:45 | Read by Sue Anderson |