Willie Hopkin: D.H. Lawrence’s Socialist Friend
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ISBN: 9781915434210
Format: Paperback, 156 pages,
Available (Published: September 2024)
£10.00
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Willie Hopkin (1862-1951) was a poet, philosopher, social reformer, local historian and humorist. He was a life-long friend and mentor of D.H. Lawrence and one of the few people in Eastwood, Lawrence's home town in Nottinghamshire, with whom Lawrence retained any continuous contact. Hopkin helped foster Lawrence’s belief that he could become a writer at a time when it was rare for someone from a working class background. Hopkin was a Marxist and Lawrence attended social gatherings at his home where he met a wide range of Labour movement leaders. Hopkin wrote a column for the local newspaper for over fifty years covering social and political aspects of life in Eastwood, where he was active on the local council and appeared, thinly disguised, in several of Lawrence's works.
About the Author
John Pateman comes from a Romany Gypsy background. He is the former Head of Libraries in Hackney, Merton, Lincolnshire and Thunder Bay, Ontario. His previous books include Developing Needs Based Library Services, Public Libraries and Social Justice, Developing Community-Led Public Libraries, Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries, Public Libraries and Marxism and Understanding Public Libraries. He is on the Council of the D.H. Lawrence Society.
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