Born (April? see below) 1873 in Nice, France (McCray, 2014 had access to personal papers) Baptised Lancashire, England, 8th Nov 1874 (Online Cenotaph), (screenshot from FamilySearch) Claimed birth in London, 6th Feb 1876 (military record / screenshot), (Simon & Schuster), (ref: Luisa Passerini, 1999 deception possibly to enter army) Letter from father 9 April 1882 […]
Biographical notes, history, bibliography, correspondence transcripts, verse play, and meditation on the Great War, 1914-1918. by Phil McCray. https://archive.org/details/briffaultspassch0000mccr/mode/2up page 1 – 2 By unanimous judgment, Briffault was a fabulously learned and inventive thinker, yet also an overbearing and difficult personality. He was a communist and an atheist, yet he was a dandy who dressed […]
by Luisa Passerini. Briffault’s adventurous life starts with a mystery. He maintained, possibly in order to be able to enter the army, that he had been born in London in 1876, but there are some indications that in fact he was born earlier on. … [in 1926] As a consequence of these blows and overwork […]
by Marija Gimbutas. The difficulty with the term matriarchy in 20th century anthropological scholarship is that it is assumed to represent a complete mirror image of patriarchy or androcracy – that is to say, a hierarchical structure with women ruling by force in the place of men. This is far from the reality of Old […]
by Elizabeth Fisher. As long as the masculine role is aggrandized and the female role derogated, as long, that is, as nature is seen from a male-supremacist view, human sexual encounters will be tainted. We are imprisoned in a conquest vocabulary which places females in the “submissive position.” Convention equates the female’s role in sex […]
by Donald Symonds, 1979 Oxford University Press. A central theme of this book is that, with respect to sexuality, there is a female human nature and a male human nature, and these natures are extraordinarily different.
by Robert Briffault. But the factors which have sublimated primal instincts have also given rise to mephitic [noxious] products as a result of their simultaneous stimulation and thwarting. Restrictive sexual morality, aimed at purity and chastity, has been the source of vice and lubricity [lewdness] . European morality places a tabu upon the sexual instincts […]
There is Lady Cressiden, who manages to live in luxury as a procuress of well-born girls; there is the beautiful, fibreless nymphomaniac Lady Kattie de Nivelle; there is Sylvia Chantrey, a young provincial painter who becomes successful and by degrees monstrously cynical and depraved…
Robert Briffault – 1931 Macmillan version. PREFACE In response for the demand for an edition of my work, The Mothers, in one volume it was originally contemplated to Issue an abridgement of the book. In order to bring the whole work within the compass of a volume salable at a popular price, so many portions […]
Dedicated to Robert Briffault, warm friend and one of the most amazing minds of our generation. by V.F.Calverton. Formal Sex Relations in Samoa by Margaret Mead, P587: “More frequently still an older man, a widower or a divorced man will be the girl’s first lover…But the first amorous excursions of the older men among the […]
By Robert Briffault, 1931 Intro by Bertrand Russell.
A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions. by Robert Briffault. The learned Swiss jurist Bachofen, who was the first to draw attention to some of the evidence showing the prevalence at one time of feminine dominance, suggests that women rebelled in disgust at the promiscuity imposed by male rule… But nothing could be […]