Francis Place

Standard Name: Place, Francis

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Charlotte Dacre	CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...

Timeline

1823

Francis Place distributed in London the pamphlet To the Married of Both Sexes; it contained contraceptive information, and is now considered to be the earliest work on birth control.

Chandrasekhar, Sripati et al. "A Dirty Filthy Book": The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial. University of California Press, 1981.

15-17

Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.

1826

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded by Lord Brougham .

Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.

Bennett, Scott. “Revolutions in Thought: Serial Publication and the Mass Market for Reading”. The Victorian Periodical Press: Soundings and Samplings, edited by Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff, University of Leicester Press; University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. 225-57.

226-9

Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.

Texts

Place, Francis. The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771-1854). Editor Thale, Mary, Cambridge University Press, 1972.