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Merrie England (Robert Blatchford book)

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Publication date
  
1893

Author
  
Robert Blatchford

Originally published
  
1893

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Merrie England is an influential collection of essays on socialism by Robert Blatchford under the pseudonym "Nunquam", published in 1893. The first issue by Nunquam was priced at one shilling. It sold over two million copies worldwide. It was said that for every one convert to socialism made by Karl Marx's Das Kapital there were a hundred converts made by “Merrie England” - though even this may be an underestimate.

The book received rebuttals including:

  • R. Nemo, Labour and Luxury: A Reply to 'Merrie England London: Walter Scott, 1895
  • Robert Roberts, England's Ruin, Or John Smith's Answer to Mr. Blatchford's Plea for Socialism 1895

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