| LC control no. | n 82054866 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Carlile, Richard, 1790-1843 |
| Variant(s) | Carlisle, Richard, 1790-1843 Philanthropos, 1790-1843 Deist, 1790-1843 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000063002493 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1790-12-08 |
| Death date | 1843-02-10 |
| Place of birth | Ashburton (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing Printing Booksellers and bookselling Radicalism |
| Profession or occupation | Publishers Printers Booksellers Authors Freethinkers Radicals |
| Found in | His Life of T. Paine. His The character of a soldier, 1822: title page (Philanthropos) Halkett & Laing (Philanthropos, Richard Carlile) Carson, A. The truth of the gospel, 1828: title page (Mr. Richard Carlisle) A masterpiece on politics, 1819: text (Richard Carlile) DNB (Carlile, Richard; freethinker; b. 12/8/1790; d. 2/10/1843) BL database, 28 February 2012 (Deist) British Book Trade Index WWW site, viewed July 9, 2021 (Carlile, Richard; town: London; address(es): 183/62 Fleet St., 135 Fleet St (1826); book trades: printer, bookseller; trading dates: 1817-1828) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site, viewed July 9, 2021 (Richard Carlile (1790-1843); radical publisher and writer; born December 8, 1790, in Ashburton, Devon; he gave up his trade as a tinworker in London in March 1817, becoming a hawker of pamphlets and journals and subsequently a writer of radical tracts; in 1817 he entered into a business arrangement with William T. Sherwin, becoming the publisher of Sherwin's Weekly Political Register; he quickly established a reputation as a prolific writer and publisher of egalitarian and republican principles, and when, in August 1817, he reprinted the political parodies of William Hone without the author's permission he was imprisoned awaiting trial on charges of seditious libel and blasphemy; he remained there for four months until the charges were dropped on Hone's acquittal; he started his own journal, The Republican, in August 1817; his greatest contribution to the radical cause, was his republishing of the writings of Tom Paine, which he did serially in the Weekly, individually as cheap pamphlets, and also as bound volumes; in 1819 he was the subject of several prosecutions, throughout which he continued to publish despite intermittent spells in prison; in February he set up as a publisher and bookseller at 55 Fleet Street; his reputation resulted in his invitation to attend the meeting in August at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where he witnessed the Peterloo massacre; on returning to London he published his eyewitness accounts in Sherwin's Weekly Political Register and then in The Republican, thereby incurring further charges of seditious libel; he was found guilty on two charges and sentenced to six years in Dorchester prison; despite this, he was able to continue his career as a publisher through the help of his wife and friends; he was freed in November 1825, returning to London in January 1826; he secured a new shop at 62 Fleet Street; The Republican ceased publication in December 1826; he launched The Lion in January 1828 (running until the end of 1829); in January 1831 he appeared at the Old Bailey on charges of seditious libel which resulted in a sentence of two years' imprisonment and a large fine which he refused to pay, thereby extending the sentence by a further six months; from prison he published a tract on madness, New View of Insanity (1831), and an allegorical interpretation of freemasonry, Manual of Masonry (1831) while his journalism continued in The Union, The Cosmopolite, The Isis, and The Gauntlet; he died on February 10, 1843 in London) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | nb2019023745 |
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