Charles Bradlaugh

Standard Name: Bradlaugh, Charles

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text C. E. Plumptre
Her essays discuss philosophers such as Roger Bacon , Charles Bradlaugh , and Giordano Bruno .
Poole, William Frederick et al. Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. James Osborne; Houghton, Mifflin.
Textual Production Edna Lyall
EL 's third novel, We Two, went further than Donovan in treating both politics and religion (and implicitly the controversial career of Charles Bradlaugh ). It was enormously successful: the breakthrough in her career.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2948 (1884): 533
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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.
370
Textual Features Edna Lyall
As readers recognized at once, Luke Raeburn, the embattled atheist in this book, noticeably resembles the politician Charles Bradlaugh , who was excluded from taking his seat in the House of Commons after repeatedly being...
Reception Annie Besant
AB and Charles Bradlaugh were convicted of obscenity and sentenced, initially, to six months in prison for reprinting, as Fruits of Philosophy, a pamphlet on contraception dating from 1832.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
102, 119
Publishing Annie Besant
The Freethought Publishing Company had been set up by Bradlaugh and Besant on 20 January this year to publish their own work.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
They later advertised a package of books by AB with the claim that...
politics Edna Lyall
EL met Charles Bradlaugh after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer.
Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood.
28
She made three contributions to the Election Fund set up to...
politics Annie Besant
AB became secretary of the Malthusian League (a new version of Bradlaugh 's 1860s league), which sought legal reform to end prosecution for public discussion of population issues and birth control.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
121
politics Edith J. Simcox
Although EJS was nominated to the Council of the newly revived International Working Men's Association , along with Annie Besant , Harriet Law , and Charles Bradlaugh , she subsequently withdrew.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
42-3
politics Edith J. Simcox
On 12 December 1877 EJS remarked in her autobiography that a Council was appointed to which I was nominated, then Mrs Besant , then Mrs Harriet Law , and Mr Bradlaugh in between. I had...
politics Annie Besant
The trial and temporary conviction of AB and Charles Bradlaugh in the summer of 1877 on obscenity charges for publishing the birth control pamphlet Fruits of Philosophy, as well as her public atheism, deprived...
Occupation Annie Besant
Under Charles Bradlaugh 's influence, AB began lecturing and writing for the National Secular Society .
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
71-3
Material Conditions of Writing Edna Lyall
She began writing it on a sunny August morning at Farnham, after reading in the Daily News of how Bradlaugh , the well-known radical, in prison for refusing to take the parliamentary oath on...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
The Morning Post gave the book a good review,
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
45
but the London Quarterly called this and EL 's next work dangerous or wicked in their sympathetic portrayal of atheism.
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, pp. 476-95.
477 and n1
In deploring...
Intertextuality and Influence Annie Besant
AB published anonymously in 1875, with Thomas Scott , her first pamphlet on the topic of atheism. On the Nature and Existence of God owed much to the influence of her new friend Charles Bradlaugh

Timeline

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

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25 August 1857

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

February 1878: The acquittal of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie...

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February 1878

The acquittal of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in their famous obscenity trial meant that distribution of birth control information was no longer illegal.

1892: Sixty-seven year-old phrenologist Henry Loader...

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1892

Sixty-seven year-old phrenologist Henry Loader was prosecuted for selling two birth control manuals, The Wife's Handbook and Fruits of Philosophy.

Texts

Bradlaugh, Charles et al. “Publishers’ Preface”. Fruits of Philosophy: An Essay on the Population Question, 2ndnd ed, Freethought Publishing, 1877, pp. 3-7.