Poole, William Frederick et al. Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. James Osborne; Houghton, Mifflin.
Charles Bradlaugh
Standard Name: Bradlaugh, Charles
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | C. E. Plumptre | |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 370 |
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. |
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... |
Reception | Annie Besant | 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. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 102, 119 |
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/. |
politics | Annie Besant | 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. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 121 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 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 |
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... |
Timeline
25 August 1857: The Obscene Publications Act allowed for...
Building item
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...
Building item
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...
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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.