Category: Biographies
When I first entered London, one Saturday evening in 1842, I was not known personally to half a dozen persons in it. On reaching the office of the Oracle of Reason, I found an invitation (it was the first I received in the metropolis) from Richard Carlile to take tea with him...
Carlile's death took place on this wise. He had come up from Enfield to Bouvene Street, Fleet Street, to live on the old field of war, and edit the _Christian Warrior._ While a...
3. CHAPTER II. THE PUBLISHER AND THE PRISONERIt was in 1816, while employed as a tinplate worker, by the firm of Matthews and Masterman, of Union Court, Holbom Hill, that he first essayed public life. He was then twenty-si...
4. CHAPTER III. THE EDITOR AND THE ATHEISTDuring Carlile's imprisonment in Dorchester Gaol, he edited the _Republican_, a Weekly Journal, which he conducted through fourteen volumes. Its circulation reached at one time...
2. CHAPTER I. HIS PARENTAGE, APPRENTICESHIP, AND MARRIAGEI have accomplished the liberty of the press in England, and oral discussion is now free. Nothing remains to be reformed but the ignorance and vices of the people, whose ignoran...
1. CHAPTER IV. HIS DEATH AND CHARACTERWhen I first entered London, one Saturday evening in 1842, I was not known personally to half a dozen persons in it. On reaching the office of the Oracle of Reason, I found an i...