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153: 177:. Henderson claimed his press ran at significant losses due to his copyright-waiver, but his refusal to pay authors their royalties or to repay the Maudes' loans to the press caused significant trouble in the Tolstoyan community and fed the growing schism surrounding Chertkov. Henderson eventually lost the rights to Maude's translation of 340:
They must be rebel. Rebel a thousand years ago, rebel yesterday, rebel since lunch: not yet rebel at all, but likely to be rebel next week: rebel in politics, rebel in sex, rebel in religion – anything anyhow or anywhere rebel, anything smelling or tasting of rebel (even if a bit anachronistically)
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politically opposed to the Bomb Shop, who would repaint it in blue and white and sometimes break in and destroy the interior. There were many rooms above Henderson's, and these proved to be excellent hiding places for fugitives. The suffragist
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through Henderson's provided an outlet for suppressed voices and for many respected writers who were unable to publish their more radical writing through their usual channels. Authors published by Henderson's include
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with the legend "no rights reserved" – when Walter Scott refused, Henderson left to start his own printing press which developed into a bookshop for radical writing.
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Henderson's publishing press began when Francis Henderson took over the Brotherhood Publishing Company (an organisation run by the
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Few records exist of Francis Henderson's early life, but he had connections with Russian émigrés and developed a passion for
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proudly bear the text 'The Bomb Shop'. This boldness extended to the shop itself, which was painted in a red and gold
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and a pacifist anarchist, and from there into London's radical scene. Henderson demanded that Walter Scott publish
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Reading Revolution: Russian Émigrés and the Reception of Russian Literature in England, c. 1890—1905
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book, was published by Henderson's after Bomberg and his wife were expelled from a performance of
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hid out at Henderson's for two months after setting fire to a railway carriage in protest for
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The advertising potential of the shop's nickname was quickly recognised, and both adverts and
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More for Timothy: Being the Second Instalment of an Autobiographical Letter to His Grandson
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Outside the world of politics, Henderson's also contributed to the then-burgeoning
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Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches : a Biography (1918–1967)
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The shop also proved to be radical in its acceptance of technology. The first
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and prominently featured the names of past rebels – a target for
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A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture
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Index

Henderson's Relish
bookshop
Charing Cross Road
radical left
modernist literature
Walter Scott Publishing
Eva Collet Reckitt
Russian literature
Tolstoy
Vladimir Chertkov
Tolstoyan
Louise Maude
Resurrection
public domain
imprints
Arts and Crafts
Walter Crane
vandals
Hugh Franklin
women's suffrage
Penguincubator
vending machine
Allen Lane
Penguin Books

Russian Ballet
David Bomberg
Brotherhood Church
imprints
Self-publishing

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