Theophila Carlile Campbell

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Theophila Carlile Campbell

1837–1913

Drawn from one of England’s most rebellious publishing families, this writer preserved the story of a fierce struggle for free speech and a free press. Her best-known book brings the life of radical publisher Richard Carlile to readers through a daughter’s close, personal view.

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The battle of the press : as told in the story of the life of Richard Carlile by his daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell

The battle of the press : as told in the story of the life of Richard Carlile by his daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell

by Theophila Carlile Campbell

About the author

Born in 1837, Theophila Carlile Campbell was an English writer remembered chiefly for The Battle of the Press: As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile, published in 1899. Reliable library and text sources identify her as the daughter of the radical publisher and reformer Richard Carlile.

Her best-known work is both biography and family testimony. In it, she recounts Richard Carlile’s battles over censorship, publishing, and political liberty, helping preserve an important chapter in the history of press freedom in Britain.

Little else is firmly confirmed in the sources consulted, but her surviving work shows a writer deeply connected to the reform movements that shaped her family’s world. She died in 1913.