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This new Henry Salt Archive brings together a selection of Henry Salt essays, poems and published letters previously unavailable online.
In addition, we've added sections on his circle of friends and his influences in order to give visitors a brief introduction to the life and times of Henry Salt.
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Henry Salt Anthology
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HENRY STEPHENS SALT
Henry S. Salt (1851–1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform whose work brought him praise from the likes of Mahatma Gandhi. Whatever humanitarian cause he chose to write about he demonstrated great wit to show the folly of those who opposed progress. His studies of Thoreau, Shelley and Jefferies remain among the most insightful ever written. In particular, his Life of Henry David Thoreau is regarded by many as the finest on the subject. His classic Animals' Rights Considered in Retion to Social Progress is still in print today.
Featured Poem
Each month will be featuring a neglected but worthy essay, book or poem of Salt's.
Charity on the Cheap, originally published in Justice, is Salt's amusing response to the announcement that her Majesty intended to distribute among the working classes and poor inhabitants of London, the surplus bedding-out plants!
Latest Addition
Henry Salt spent his childhood in Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
In his autobiographies Salt talks about his upbringing at The Crescent, his visits to the Salt family home at Quarry Place.
Salt also mentions St. Chad's Church which he attended as a child. Visit our Shrewsbury gallery.
Coming Soon...
Salt's mother, Ellen Maltida Salt, kept a very short diary of events of Henry's early years.
The late Denis Salt sent a transcribed copy to researchers in 1992. We've now acquired a copy of this interesting list.
Along with more of Salt's essays and poems we'll be adding Ellen's list here shortly.