Painting Fakes

"Who is Edward Bellamy?", I hear you ask.  I would have asked the same until a few weeks ago, when I saw his book, Looking Backward: 2000-1887,  in one of our suburb's little street libraries .  I was intrigued and brought it home, and I thought I would share it with you before I put it back. Bellamy was born in Massachusetts in 1850 and came from a well-off family, going to university and eventually qualifying as a barrister.  He soon quit the law, convinced it was just there to uphold the plutocracy.  He could have been a classic 1960's 'angry young man', but born out of time.  From early in his life he was appalled at the slums just a short walk from his own well-off neighbourhood, and after quitting the law he worked as a writer and journalist, criticising child labour and labour laws that allowed prices to rise but wages to stagnate.  He was appalled by poverty and suffering, and was convinced there must be a better way. Looking Backward was the c...