Caroline Haddon

Caroline Haddon (15 April 1837 - 13 March 1905) was a British philosophical writer. She was the sister-in-law of James Hinton, "the great influence of her life",^[1] and she wrote several works about Hinton and his thought.

Life

Caroline Haddon was born 15 April 1837 in Finsbury, the daughter of John Haddon and Elizabeth Cort.^[2]

Haddon ran a girls' school in Dover. She paid for Havelock Ellis to pursue his study of medicine at St Thomas's Hospital.^[3] Together with her sister Margaret and Havelock Ellis, she championed Hinton's evolutionary mysticism within the Fellowship of the New Life.^[4] In a talk she gave to the Fabian Society, 'The Two Socialisms', she was the first at the society to use the word 'socialism'.^[5]

Haddon died 13 March 1905.^[6]

Works

• (ed.) Philosophy and Religion: selections from the MSS. of J. Hinton by James Hinton, London: Kegan and Paul, 1881.
• A Law of Development: An Essay, London: J. Haddon, 1883
• The Larger Life: Studies in Hinton's Ethics, London: Kegan and Paul, 1886.
• Where does your interest come from?: a word to lady investors, 1886

References

1. Ellis, Havelock (2005). Three Modern Seers: James Hinton, Nietzsche Edward Carpenter. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 58–9. ISBN 978-1-4179-7231-9. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
2. Caroline Haddon, ancestry.com
3. Weir, Neir. "Hinton, James (1822–1875), otologist and writer on philosophy". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13354. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. Bevir, Mark (2011). The Making of British Socialism. Princeton University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-691-15083-3. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
5. Pease, Edward R. (1925). The History of the Fabian Society. Library of Alexandria. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-4655-0248-3. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
6. The London Gazette, 15 June 1906, p.4173