CARPENTER, EDWARD English author, was born at Brighton on Aug. 29, 1844, the son of Charles Car penter, a barrister who had begun life in the navy. Edward Car penter received a conventional education at Brighton college and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated loth wrangler in 1868, and then became a fellow and lecturer of his college. He took holy orders and acted as curate in a Cambridge church, but the stirrings of revolt against the existing social and religious order were already at work in his mind, and he left Cambridge in 1874, having relinquished both his college appointments and holy orders. The revolutionary change which eventually led to a complete alteration in his conception of life was due to the reading in 1868 or 1869 of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and then of his Democratic Vistas. From that moment he felt, to use his own words, that "my life deep down was flowing out and away from the surroundings and traditions amid which I lived—a current of sympathy carrying it westward across the Atlantic." A holiday in Italy and the revelation of the significance of Greek art confirmed his desire for a life more in conformity with nature. But when he left Cambridge he was to spend some years in uncongenial surroundings in a series of dingy lodgings before he was able to fulfil his dream. He became a university extension lecturer, and in the course of his visits to the indus trial towns of Yorkshire and the Midlands got into touch with working people and with some of the Socialist leaders. His early volumes of verse were still-born, but Towards Democracy (1883) and England's Ideal and other papers on Social Subjects (1887) found many readers. In 1884 he visited the United States, spent some time with Whitman (see his Days with Walt Whitman, Iqo6), and met Lowell, Emerson, Charles Norton and others. Shortly afterwards he relinquished his lecturing to lead the simple life at Bradway, near Sheffield, occupying himself with market gardening, handicrafts, and his literary work and Socialist propa ganda. His Socialism was of the school of William Morris, and he was concerned with a revolution in industrial, social and family life rather than with political issues. The second great influence in his life was that of Havelock Ellis, and some of his later writings are concerned with the question of an "intermediate sex." Although he was something of a recluse at Bradway and later in his Surrey home, many people belonging to "advanced" movements sought him out. Among his works are Love's Coming of Age (1896) ; The Intermediate Sex (1908) ; The Drama of Love and Death (1912), and My Days and Dreams, an auto biography (1916). He died in England on June 28, 1929.