Charles Bradlaugh

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 .

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

The Freethought Publishing Company had been set up by Bradlaugh and Besant on 20 January this year to publish their own work. They later advertised a package of books by AB with the claim that...

Under Charles Bradlaugh 's influence, AB began lecturing and writing for the National Secular Society .

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.

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.

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.