Biography
Lillian Harman was an American free-thought and free-love activist, the daughter of Lucifer, the Light-Bearer editor Moses Harman. In September 1886, at the age of sixteen, she entered into an "autonomistic marriage" with the anarchist writer Edwin C. Walker — a union deliberately made without the sanction of church or state to protest the legal subordination of wives. The morning after the ceremony the couple were arrested under Kansas marriage law. Convicted in State v. Walker, Lillian was formally sentenced to forty-five days in the county jail but, like Walker, was held far longer because neither would pay the court costs; they were freed only after her father paid them in April 1887. She went on to edit radical journals and to serve as president of the British Legitimation League.
