Author | "Nunquam", pseudonym of Robert Blatchford |
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Publication date
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1893 |
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: