Pioneers of birth control in England and America / by Victor Robinson.

  • Victor Robinson
Date:
1919
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Credit: Pioneers of birth control in England and America / by Victor Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lignant. His sister, Mary Anne, pub¬ lished his “New Year’s Address to the Reformers of Great Britain,” and was re¬ warded by a year’s imprisonment. His shopmen were arrested so frequently that it became necessary to sell his books by clockwork: the customer turned the han¬ dle of a dial, and after depositing the cor¬ rect amount of money, the desired volume dropped out. An attempt, headed by that arch-enemy of reform, the Duke of Wellington, was made to ruin Carlile completely, by seizing and destroying his book-store. Carlile’s wife had little sym¬ pathy with his views, but she possessed a warm temper, and was so incensed at the government’s unjust treatment of her husband, that she worked loyally for him, raising his book-business to a greater pitch of prosperity than the unpractical Carlile himself could have done. For her efforts in this line, she was compelled to