| Ethel Mairet |
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Although influenced largely by the example of Orage, a follower of Gurdjieff , Mairet was an Anglican Christian. As editor of the '' New English Weekly '' in the 1930s, he championed both Christian Sociology (in the sense of Maurice Reckitt , a friend), as it was known at the time, and ideas on Agriculture that would come together later as Organic Farming . These ideas were promoted by the Chandos Group , to which he belonged; as he did to numerous other small societies and discussion groups of the period before World War II . A friend and correspondent also of T. S. Eliot , he was perhaps the best-connected of all the British Christian intellectuals of that time. He was an early supporter of George Orwell , giving him literary work for the New English Review, and writing in very positive and comprehending terms about '' Homage To Catalonia '' and Orwell's approach. As a young man he worked in graphic design for Charles Robert Ashbee , and then Patrick Geddes. His wife Ethel Mairet (1872 - 1952) (previously married to Ananda Coomaraswamy ) was an influential Weaver and teacher, who settled in the community at Ditchling , Sussex . She was born Ethel Mary Partridge and trained at the Royal Academy Of Music ; her marriage to Coomaraswamy lasted from 1903 to 1913. WORKS
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