Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Charles Bradlaugh
Standard Name: Bradlaugh, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. 370 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | C. E. Plumptre | Her essays discuss philosophers such as Roger Bacon
, Charles Bradlaugh
, and Giordano Bruno
. Poole, William Frederick et al. Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. James Osborne; Houghton, Mifflin, 1882–1908. |
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