Richard Carlile

Standard Name: Carlile, Richard

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Annie Besant
The preface discusses the history of this manual, first published forty-five years earlier in Britain by James Watson , who championed the early birth control activist and writer Richard Carlile . Besant and Bradlaugh provided...

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15 October 1819: Richard Carlile was convicted on charges...

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15 October 1819

Richard Carlile was convicted on charges of blasphemous libel for his publication of Thomas Paine 's Age of Reason and Elihu Palmer 's Principles of Nature.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

January 1821: Jane Carlile, wife of publisher Richard Carlile...

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January 1821

Jane Carlile , wife of publisher Richard Carlile (whose sister-in-law Mary Anne Carlile had been prosecuted the previous year), was imprisoned for libel.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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1821: Mary Anne Carlile, sister of Richard Carlile...

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1821

Mary Anne Carlile , sister of Richard Carlile (who had published Thomas Paine ), was charged twice with blasphemous libel.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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1826: Everywoman's Book or What is Love?, by Richard...

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1826

Everywoman's Book or What is Love?, by Richard Carlile , was first published as an 18-penny pamphlet.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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1832: The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown...

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1832

The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown was re-issued in book form under a new title, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy; Sent From the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at...

1923: Guy Aldred and Rose Witcop were prosecuted...

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1923

Guy Aldred and Rose Witcop were prosecuted for selling Margaret Sanger 's pamphlet Family Limitation: Handbook for Working Mothers.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.
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