13 Facts About Edward Truelove

Edward Truelove was an English radical publisher and freethinker.

Edward Truelove went to New Harmony, Indiana for a year, returning to London in 1846.

Edward Truelove then acted as secretary of the John Street Institution, a Chartist base in London, for nine years.

Edward Truelove acted as publisher for the International Workingmen's Association.

Edward Truelove became one of the core members of the League who attended regularly, until it stopped meeting formally around 1899, with Thomas Owen Bonser, JK Page and William Hammond Reynolds.

In 1847 Edward Truelove was selling Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and other works from John Street, London.

The Book-Hunter in London described Edward Truelove as "agnostic", and as having retired from the High Holborn shop, to which he moved from the Strand, a few years earlier.

Edward Truelove is buried with his wife and daughter on the east side of Highgate Cemetery.

Edward Truelove encountered legal trouble with both political and birth control publications.

In 1878 Edward Truelove was tried for publishing an edition of Robert Dale Owen's work Moral Physiology, and spent four months in Coldbath Fields Prison.

Edward Truelove had displayed Moral Physiology in his shop window, in High Holborn.

Bradlaugh was accused of writing Drysdale's work; he did not know the true author, and Edward Truelove successfully maintained Drysdale's secret.

Harriett Edward Truelove was on good terms with Florence Nightingale, and corresponded with her.