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Posted by Adam Buick
on 9/20/2003, 12:06 pm
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In a book published in 1975 by Robert Baltrop "The Monument: The Story of the Socialist Party of Great Britain" (of which AE Jacomb was a prominent member for 40 years) the following passage appears:
"In 1907 Jacomb himself was in trouble with authority. He had written and published a book on the position of women in society, a great question of the day. But unlike other writers of books about it Jacomb paid no attention to the moral conventions of the his time, and the book was banned as soon as it was published. Police went to Jacomb's workshop to take away the copies, and as a consequenceof their visit his machinery was destroyed".
AE Jacomb is the Albert E Jacomb in the 1901 UK census, listed as age 28, born in Old Ford, London, living in West Ham and a printer. He died (according to his obituary in the November 1946 Socialist Standard) in Essex where he had a chicken farm.
The printing firm was called "Jacomb Bros". I imagine the brother was the Arthur H. Jacomb also in the 1901 Census as born in Old Ford and living in West Ham. His age then is given as 24.
Does anyone know anything about this book (it is not in the list of books published by Jacombs)? Or is he the black sheep of some branch of the Jacomb family?
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