Unbecoming on the Heath

Lost Signals Report
For all of six weeks in the spring of 1891, Claire Saint (close friend of Laura Marx) was an enthused member of the proto-Situationist International group, the Hampstead Tree-Huggers. Beyond the occasional band performance, as pictured, the HTH held regular picnics and what would today be recognised as love-ins. Outmaneuvered and outgunned by her political rivals, Saint was soon forced to abdicate her official role as Co-Mingler of the Solitude and the Multitude. Sterile and tuneless, the HTH disbanded before the turn of the century, a victim of their own uncaring spectacle. —R. Bennetts