author
W. C. Hart
Best known for a fierce 1906 memoir attacking the anarchist movement, this elusive writer offers a rare, argumentative insider view of radical politics in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Little else about the person behind the initials is easy to confirm, which only adds to the book’s curiosity.
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Confessions of an anarchist
by W. C. Hart
About the author
W. C. Hart is known from the historical record mainly through Confessions of an Anarchist, published in London by E. Grant Richards in 1906. The book presents itself as a strongly critical memoir and exposé, drawing on Hart’s claimed experience inside anarchist circles in Great Britain.
From the book’s own description, Hart writes as a former participant who says he had served as a group secretary and contributed to anarchist newspapers before turning against the movement. That perspective gives the work its distinctive tone: part personal recollection, part political warning, and part social commentary.
Reliable biographical details beyond that are hard to pin down from the sources I found. No clearly confirmed portrait or substantial independent author biography turned up, so Hart remains a somewhat shadowy figure whose reputation rests almost entirely on this one controversial early twentieth-century book.