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Charles Bradlaugh

Standard Name: Bradlaugh, Charles

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
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...
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.
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...
Friends, Associates	Edna Lyall	She became a good friend of Bradlaugh himself and also of his daughter Hypatia . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	Edna Lyall	Charles Bradlaugh himself tutored EL on the subject of secularism for this novel, which was at first to be called Erica. She had nearly finished writing it by the end of 1882, but during...
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...
Friends, Associates	Matilda Betham-Edwards	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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Annie Besant	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 .
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
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...
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

Timeline

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 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 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.