![]() ![]() ![]() While her reluctance to align her faith and economic ideas might seem surprising to some, this discussion contends that Malet, believing in man’s fallenness, came to regard the idea of a perfect social whole as apocryphal in any terrestrial sense of the term. This article breaks fresh ground in the scholarship on Malet. ![]() However, her conversion to Catholicism made her suspicious of the kind of utopian, cooperative society of which the beehive had become the emblem. Lucas Malet had socialist sympathies and deployed the motif to articulate the inequalities of an exploitative capitalistic system. As a socialist motif, the beehive gained currency the turn of the nineteenth century, associated with principles of altruism, decentralised organisation and cooperative labour. ![]()
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