younger brother of the New York phrenologist O. S. FOWLER; among the founders of the American Hydropathic Soc; emigrated to England in 1860 with his wife Lydia and daughter Jessie and partner Samuel Wells and conducted a highly successful lecture tour, in the wake of which sprang up many new phrenological societies; his lectures on phrenology, sex, marriage, physiology, heredity, etc., were delivered to working-class audiences at special reduced rates; after lecturing in London during the International Exhibition of 1862 he and his family returned to New York but came back to England the following year and established the FOWLER INST; returned to the English lecture circuit in the 1870s, being particularly popular with audiences in the Midlands; established, in 1886, and presided over the BR PHREN ASSN. (MEB; and A139, A178, A209)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
423.1
— 423.1 Marriage: Its History and Ceremonies with a Phrenological and Physiological Exposition of the Functions and Qualifications for Happy Marriages. 3rd edn, Manchester: John Heywood, 1880. Pp. 62. 1st edn, New York, 1847, 19th, 1848. Pp. 216.
423.2
— 423.2 Lectures on Man, as Explained by Phrenology, Physiology, Physiognomy, and Ethnology. 10th thousand, London: W. Tweedie, 1st ser, 1864. Pp. 202. Lectures separately paginated. Between 1862 and 1866 these and other lectures (usually undated) were published and separately sold under the following titles: 423.2a "How to Read Character." 423.2b "Utility of Phrenology." 423.2c "Proofs of Phrenology." 423. 2d "Objections to Phrenology Considered and Answered." 423.2e "Thinkers, Authors, Speakers." 423.2f "How to Succeed in the World." 423.2g "Self-Made Men." 423.2h "John Bull' and 'Brother Jonathan': their national Peculiarities." 423.2i "Tact and Talent." 423.2j "Love, Courtship and Marriage." 423.2k "How to Train Up a Child." 423.21 "Perfection of Character." 423.2m "Memory: how to secure and retain it." 423.2n "Self-Knowledge; or, what to know, what to do, and how to do it." 423.20 "Temperaments: their classification and importance." 423.2p "Education phrenologically and physiologically considered." 423.2q "Formation of Character." 423.2r "Health, Wealth, and Happiness." 423.2s "How to Live: or Temperance in a Nutshell."
423.3
— 423.3 The Phrenological and Physiological Register, adapted to the use of Phrenologists for Recording Charts of Character. 12th thousand, London: L. N. Fowler, [1864]. Pp. 48.
423.4
— 423.4 Lectures on Man: being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology. Fowler in Great Britain. Wells, 1880. Pp. 353. 1864 volume, plus: Delivered by Professor L. N. London and New York: Fowler & Contains all of the lectures in the 423.4a "Definition, Combination, and Natural Language of the Faculties." 423.4b "Perfection of Character." Laws
423.5
— 423.5 The Phrenological Character of Mr. Chs. Bradlaugh, M.P., delineated in 1864, and has been marvellously verified by his career up to the present time. London: J. Martin, "Anti-Ritualistic Depot," Strand, 1880. Pp. 7. (1d)
423.6
— 423.6 How to Learn Phrenology with Hints as to the Study of Character. London: L. N. Fowler, 1881. Pp. 50. (6d)
423.7
— 423.7 Mental Science as Explained by Phrenology. Revised and Enlarged. London and New York: L. N. Fowler & Co., 1896. Pp. 75. (1s)
423.8
— 423.8 (and J. A. FOWLER), Phrenological Dictionary. London: L. N. Fowler, [1894]. Pp. 47.
Editorial Information
Identifier
423.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
143
Printed page
138
Database ID
1335
Original Transcription
423. FOWLER, Lorenzo Niles (1811-96), younger brother of the New
York phrenologist O. S. FOWLER; among the founders of the American Hydropathic Soc; emigrated to England in 1860 with his wife
Lydia and daughter Jessie and partner Samuel Wells (1820-75) and
conducted a highly successful lecture tour, in the wake of which
sprang up many new phrenological societies; his lectures on phrenology, sex, marriage, physiology, heredity, etc., were delivered
to working-class audiences at special reduced rates; after lecturing
in London during the International Exhibition of 1862 he and his
family returned to New York but came back to England the following
year and established the FOWLER INST; returned to the English lecture circuit in the 1870s, being particularly popular with audiences
in the Midlands; established, in 1886, and presided over the BR
PHREN ASSN. (MEB; and A139, A178, A209)