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CONTENTS.
PAGE.
RICHARD CARLILE Frontispiece.
ELIZA SHARPLES CARLILE Facing p. 145
PART I.
Chapter I.—Introductory 1
II.—His Birth, Youth, and Early Manhood 7
III.—The Manchester Massacre 21
IV.—Record of Persecution 30
V.—The Trial 39
VI.—Taken to Prison 53
VII.—Sir Robert Gifford and The Odious "Six Acts" 61
VIII.—The Vice Society 68
IX.—The Cato Street Plot 73
X.—How the Battle was Fought 84
XI.—Fire and Insanity 96
XII.—Free Discussion 104
XIII.—Liberation and After 107
XIV.—The "Prompter" and the Rotunda 119
XV.—Scattered Threads 137
PART II.
Chapter I.—The Story of "Isis" 147
II.—Isis to Richard Carlile 164
III.—Letters to "Isis" 181
IV.—In Prison Again 192
