Edited by David Goodway The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman     John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman became friends in the United States during the First World War. Jack was an established lecturer, travelling the country extensively and attracting huge audiences, yet only beginning his second career as an author, and 'Red Emma' was a central figure in American anarchism. In established society she was considered a monster, one of America's most dangerous agitators. To her admirers, she was a mythic figure, a charismatic heroine who lived her life in the service of a personal and political ideal.		After World War One she was deported with several hundred 'alien radicals' to her native and then revolutionary Russia, but although she fled from there after less than two years, continued to be excluded from America. She renewed contact in 1936 with Powys, by now a major novelist, wishing to establish herself as a lecturer in Britain. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she was called to Barcelona as the foremost international anarchist activist, and in consequence Powys was immersed in details of the conflict and of the anarchist ideal, all to be imprinted on his writings, both fiction and non-fiction, in the late 1930s and 40s. Emma Goldman in turn benefited from the generosity of his response during her dispiriting attempts to mobilize moral and material support for the Spanish anarchists.     In this important collection, one of the few in the Uniform Edition of the Collected Letters of John Cowper Powys to contain both sides of the correspondence she recounts and analyzes her experiences in a series of lucid but passionate letters.
	214mm x 133mm, 188 pp. & 11 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-897967-84-3                 £30.00