ABSTRACT
THE WALTER SCOTT CITED HERE WAS, OF COURSE, NOT THE SCOTTISH novelist but the English radical publisher who in 1894 produced the first English edition of Tolstoy’s very influential essay. A Tolstoyan community was established at Whiteway in the Cotswolds in 1898. One of the most celebrated Utopian rural communes (Hardy, 2000), over the years it became a thriving anarchist community, with people living in a variety of homemade huts, houses and railway carriages. Still operating under their original constitution, they are Britain’s longest surviving secular community.
