Editing Elbert Hubbard (section)

==Roycroft==
[[File:Elbert Hubbard - Project Gutenberg etext 17504.jpg|thumb|Elbert Hubbard illustrated in the frontispiece of ''The Mintage''.]]

{{blockquote|Hubbard ... was reborn, in middle age, as Fra Elbertus, the owner, leader, prophet, and boss of [[Roycroft]], a quasi-communal, neomedievalist (after [[William Morris]]), semiutopian community of residences and shops that specialized in the printing of handsome leather-bound, hand-illumined books, and in the manufacture of furniture, pottery, leather goods, rugs, baskets, stained-glass lamps and windows, candy, painting, music, all of which bore the Roycroft name.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L2dTB9R-Mz4C&pg=PA25|page=25|isbn = 9780838750865|author=Brevda, William|title = Harry Kemp, the Last Bohemian|year = 1986|publisher = Bucknell University Press}}</ref>}}

His best-known work came after he founded [[Roycroft]], an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York, in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had initiated in collaboration with his first wife [[Bertha Crawford Hubbard]], the Roycroft Press, inspired by [[William Morris]]' [[Kelmscott Press]].<ref name=Gallimore/> Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops".<ref name="hilary davis">{{cite web|last1=Davis|first1=Hilary|title=The Roycroft Community: 1894–1938|url=http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/hdavis.shtml|website=arts-crafts.com|publisher=The Arts & Crafts Society|access-date=2 November 2015|archive-date=17 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317001940/http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/hdavis.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Hubbard edited and published two magazines, ''[[The Philistine—A Periodical of Protest]]'' and ''[[The FRA--A Journal of Affirmation]]''. ''The Philistine'' was bound in brown butcher paper and featuring largely satire and whimsy. (Hubbard himself quipped that the cover was butcher paper because: "There is meat inside.")<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bond|first1=Guy Loraine|title=Deeds of Men|date=1962|publisher=Lyons and Carnahan|location=Chicago|page=266}}</ref> The Roycrofters produced handsome, if sometimes eccentric, books printed on handmade paper, and operated a fine bindery, a furniture shop, and shops producing modeled leather and hammered copper goods. They were a leading producer of [[Mission style furniture|Mission style products]].

Hubbard's second wife, [[Alice Moore Hubbard]], was a graduate of the [[New Thought]]-oriented [[Emerson College|Emerson College of Oratory]] in Boston and a noted [[women's suffrage|suffragist]]. The Roycroft Shops became a site for meetings and conventions of [[Extremism|radicals]], [[Freethought|freethinker]]s, reformers, and suffragists. Hubbard became a popular lecturer, and his homespun philosophy evolved from a loose William Morris-inspired [[socialism]] to an ardent defense of free enterprise and American know-how. Hubbard was mocked in the Socialist press for "selling out". He replied that he had not given up any ideal of his, but had simply lost faith in Socialism as a means of realizing them.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Standard Oil Company and Elbert Hubbard|journal=Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine|date=July 1910|volume=5|issue=1|pages=540–43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nmYAAAAAYAAJ&q=elbert+hubbard+selling+out&pg=PA543|access-date=2 November 2015|last1=Watson|first1=Thomas Edward}}</ref>

An example of his trenchant critical style may be found in his saying that prison is, "An example of a Socialist's Paradise, where equality prevails, everything is supplied and competition is eliminated."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hubbard|first1=Elbert|title=The Philistine, a Periodical of Protest – Volume 35|date=June 1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1k4LAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA203|pages=2–3}}</ref>

In 1908, Hubbard was the main speaker at the annual meeting of [[The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves]].<ref name=Dedham/> Before he died, Hubbard planned to write a story about [[Felix Flying Hawk]], the only son of Chief [[Flying Hawk]]. Hubbard had learned about Flying Hawk during 1915 from [[Major Israel McCreight]].<ref name=McCreight/>

In 1912, the passenger liner ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' sank after hitting an [[iceberg]]. Hubbard subsequently wrote of the disaster,<ref name=Titanic/> singling out the story of [[Ida Straus]], who as a woman was supposed to be placed on a lifeboat in precedence to the men, but refused to board the boat, and leave her husband.{{efn|Hubbard wrote of Mrs. Straus saying, "Not I—I will not leave my husband. All these years we've traveled together, and shall we part now? No, our fate is one."<ref name=Titanic/> Three years later, Hubbard and his wife both died in the sinking of the ''Lusitania''.}} Hubbard then added his own commentary: 
{{quote|Mr. and Mrs. Straus, I envy you that legacy of love and loyalty left to your children and grandchildren. The calm courage that was yours all your long and useful career was your possession in death. You knew how to do three great things—you knew how to live, how to love and how to die. One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. All disease is indecent. Suicide is atrocious. But to pass out as did Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus is glorious. Few have such a privilege. Happy lovers, both. In life they were never separated and in death they are not divided."<ref name=Titanic/>}}