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Lewis Henry Berens

A businessman, lecturer, and political writer in colonial South Australia, he is best remembered for works that mixed social criticism, history, and speculative politics. His writing ranges from land reform and radical history to an early dystopian satire co-written with Ignatius Singer.

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The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer

The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer

by Lewis Henry Berens

About the author

Born in Birmingham in 1855, Lewis Henry Berens later settled in South Australia, where he worked in business and became active as a lecturer and political thinker. Sources describe him as a businessman, author, and advocate of economic reform, especially ideas connected with land values and the single-tax movement.

His books show an unusually wide range. He wrote on political and economic questions, but he is also remembered for The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth, a study of Gerrard Winstanley and the seventeenth-century Diggers, and for The Story of My Dictatorship, an early speculative political novel written with Ignatius Singer.

Berens died in December 1913. Though not a widely known literary figure today, his work still attracts readers interested in reform politics, utopian and dystopian writing, and the history of English radical thought.