Mount, Ferdinand. “Get off your knees”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 14, pp. 18-19. 18
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | 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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | The custody decision made it unthinkable that AB
might secure a divorce in order to marry Charles Bradlaugh
(whose wife had now died). Mount, Ferdinand. “Get off your knees”. London Review of Books, Vol. 33 , No. 14, pp. 18-19. 18 |
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/. |
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