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'Let us have truth and liberty': contesting Britishness and otherness from the prison cell, London 1820-1826

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Parolin, Christina

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In November 1822, London’s New Times newspaper related the trial of a ‘wretched’, ‘shameless’ and ‘abandoned’ woman who appeared before the court of the King’s Bench.1 Susannah Wright was facing charges of blasphemy for the sale of two pamphlets from the notorious Fleet Street bookshop of imprisoned radicals Jane and Richard Carlile. A young Nottingham lace-worker, Susannah answered the Carlile’s calls for volunteers to keep the bookshop open and, assured of the support of her...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorParolin, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-31T04:42:00Z
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-20T06:02:46Z
dc.date.available2009-08-31T04:42:00Z
dc.date.available2010-12-20T06:02:46Z
dc.identifier.citationHumanities Research XIII.1 (2006): 71-83
dc.identifier.issn1440-0669
dc.identifier.issn1834-8491
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10440/793
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/793
dc.description.abstractIn November 1822, London’s New Times newspaper related the trial of a ‘wretched’, ‘shameless’ and ‘abandoned’ woman who appeared before the court of the King’s Bench.1 Susannah Wright was facing charges of blasphemy for the sale of two pamphlets from the notorious Fleet Street bookshop of imprisoned radicals Jane and Richard Carlile. A young Nottingham lace-worker, Susannah answered the Carlile’s calls for volunteers to keep the bookshop open and, assured of the support of her ‘atheistical friends’, vowed to ‘attend to the business at all risk’.2
dc.format13 pages
dc.publisherAustralian National University
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dc.sourceHumanities Research
dc.source.urihttp://epress.anu.edu.au/hrj/2006_01/pdf/ch07.pdf
dc.source.urihttp://epress.anu.edu.au/hrj/2006_01/html/frames.php
dc.title'Let us have truth and liberty': contesting Britishness and otherness from the prison cell, London 1820-1826
dc.typeJournal article
local.identifier.citationvolumeXIII
dc.date.issued2009-08-31T04:42:00Z
local.identifier.absfor210305 - British History
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9710397xPUB25
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationParolin, Christina, Research School of Humanities, Humanities Research Centre
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage71
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage84
dc.date.updated2015-12-08T03:19:51Z
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