Charles Bradlaugh

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

She became a good friend of Bradlaugh himself and also of his daughter Hypatia .

AB met Charles Bradlaugh in 1874, the year after forming her friendships with Thomas Scott and Charles Voysey . Bradlaugh was a lawyer, a militant atheist, republican, and teetotaller, a huge man with a huge...

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

AB 's biographer Anne Taylor and other historians say she was in love with Bradlaugh , and he at least to some degree returned her feelings. But he was married, though his wife, Susannah or...

The custody decision made it unthinkable that AB might secure a divorce in order to marry Charles Bradlaugh (whose wife had now died).

It is hardly surprising in view of the other aspects of her reputation that AB was assumed to be sexually involved with her successive, influential friends, Charles Bradlaugh and Edward Aveling .