Category: Biographies
That day is chilled in my memory when I first set out for Cheltenham. It was in December 1840. The snow had been frozen on the ground a fortnight. There were three of us, Mrs. Holyoake, Madeline (our first child), and myself. I had been residing in Worcester, which was the fir...
The Assizes opened on the 6th of August, 1842, but my case did not come on till the 15th, Mr. Knight Hunt (the author of the 'Fourth Estate') was the gentleman engaged to report...
3. v. Moxon, that if the government were consistent in carrying outprosecutions for blasphemy--Shakspere, Milton, Byron, Shelley, Southey--might be prohibited. This perhaps would be an agreeable result to a reverend gentleman well known in this...
1. CHAPTER I.--BEFORE THE IMPRISONMENT.That day is chilled in my memory when I first set out for Cheltenham. It was in December 1840. The snow had been frozen on the ground a fortnight. There were three of us, Mrs. H...
4. CHAPTER III. AFTER THE SENTENCEAs soon as the sentence was pronounced, I was taken to the ceils under the court. Captain Mason, the governor, said there was another prisoner to go down besides me and Adams. I...
5. CHAPTER IV. AFTER THE LIBERATIONOn rejoining my colleagues of the _Oracle of Reason_, I proceeded to issue an address to our readers. The substance of it, which was as follows, comprises some additional facts...