Richard Carlile

(1790-1843)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Carlile, Richard, 1790-1843 NRA: Carlile, Richard (1790-1843) Freethinker Publisher DNB: Carlile, Richard (1790-1843), radical publisher and writer LBT ID: RiCarli1843 VIAF ID: 36926352 LOC ID: n82054866	B/BAP: 1790-12-08 DIED: 1843-02-10
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Radical printer and bookseller who published The Republican (1819-26); convicted of “blasphemous libel,” he spent ten years of his life in prison.
REFERENCES TO Richard Carlile: Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 November 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Verse 2: p. 597b p. 597b “Mr. Southey and Lord Byron” in Literary Chronicle (18 December 1824) 811-12 Found 1: ¶ 3 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 26 “Last Days of Lord Byron” in The Times (19 May 1825) Found 1: ¶ 15 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 18 (August 1825) 137-55 Found 1: ¶ 88 [William Hazlitt], “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1819 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 1 (February 1831) 217-37 Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1818 Found 1: ¶ n1 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIX. Found 2: ¶ 43 ¶ 47