Charles Knowlton

Standard Name: Knowlton, Charles

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Texts

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.
Bradlaugh, Charles et al. “Publishers’ Preface”. Fruits of Philosophy: An Essay on the Population Question, 2nd ed., Freethought Publishing, 1877, pp. 3-7.