Charles Knowlton

Standard Name: Knowlton, Charles

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Annie Besant
With Charles Bradlaugh , AB issued their reprint of a notorious manual on birth control, Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy, 1832, with a publisher's preface by themselves.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Timeline

25 August 1857: The Obscene Publications Act allowed for...

Building item

25 August 1857

The Obscene Publications Act allowed for the censorship of pornographic materials entering Britain.

Texts

Chandrasekhar, Sripati et al. "A Dirty Filthy Book": The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial. University of California Press, 1981.
Bradlaugh, Charles et al. “Publishers’ Preface”. Fruits of Philosophy: An Essay on the Population Question, 2ndnd ed, Freethought Publishing, 1877, pp. 3-7.