Charlotte Wilson

(1854 - 1944)

Charlotte Wilson was born to a wealthy physician and his wife outside Tewkesbury; she studied at the University of Cambridge and married a stockbroker. She began to take an interest in anarchism around 1883, when Peter Kropotkin was tried for his past affiliation with the International Workingmen’s Association. In 1886 Wilson formed the Freedom group with other London anarchists, inviting Kropotkin to join following his release from prison. He accepted, and together they established Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism.