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, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
121
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...
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, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
102, 119
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...
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, 1990.
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, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.