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CARLILE, Eliza (née Sharples) (d. 1852)

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Died: 1852

Editorial Description

socialist and feminist editor of The Isis, 1832; lecturer at the Rotunda; common-law wife of Richard CARLILE; penniless upon his death in 1843, she was taken in by the Ham Common Commune; interested in mesmerism and subjects occult; lectured on aspects of phrenology in Carlisle, Gravesend, London, 1830s, and on "the philosophy and theology of Phrenology" at the London Hall of Science, 1839. (B. Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem [1983])

Editorial Information

Identifier	193.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	54
Printed page	49
Database ID	470

Original Transcription

193. CARLILE, Eliza (née Sharples) (d. 1852), socialist and feminist
editor of The Isis, 1832; lecturer at the Rotunda; common-law wife
of Richard CARLILE; penniless upon his death in 1843, she was taken
in by the Ham Common Commune; interested in mesmerism and subjects occult; lectured on aspects of phrenology in Carlisle, Gravesend, London, 1830s, and on "the philosophy and theology of Phrenology" at the London Hall of Science, 1839. (B. Taylor, Eve and
the New Jerusalem [1983])