G. W. (George William) Foote Audiobooks

G. W. (George William) Foote

1850–1915

A sharp, combative voice in Britain’s freethought movement, this Victorian writer and editor used journalism, lectures, and satire to challenge religious authority. He is best remembered for founding The Freethinker and for turning battles over blasphemy and free speech into a defining part of his public life.

About the author

George William Foote was an English radical journalist, writer, editor, and secularist, born in Plymouth on January 11, 1850, and dead on October 17, 1915. He became a leading public advocate of freethought in Britain and is closely linked with the secular press of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Foote founded and edited The Freethinker, and he was also associated with The Secularist. His career was marked by energetic public debate, and he became especially well known after being prosecuted and imprisoned for blasphemy in the 1880s. That episode made him an important figure in arguments about freedom of expression as well as religion.

Later, he served for many years as president of the National Secular Society. Readers coming to his work today will find a forceful, witty, often confrontational style shaped by Victorian controversies over belief, liberty, and public criticism of Christianity.

G. W. (George William) Foote

11 Audiobooks

Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England

Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from "The Freethinker"

Arrows of Freethought

Bible Romances, First Series

Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh

Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works

Satires and Profanities

Prisoner for Blasphemy

Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

The Book of God : In the Light of the Higher Criticism With Special Reference to Dean Farrar's New Apology

Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

About the author