This is one of the fragments I highlighted in Olivia Lang's The Garden Against Time:
"the gay utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, who established a cross-class vegetative Eden in a smallholding in Derbyshire."
It cropped up in my readwise today so I thought I'd do some quick googling. Turns out Carpenter is a tremendously interesting character who did all sorts of fantastic things. Obviously, being of a trivial turn, I couldn't help but notice that he also "...introduced sandals to England."