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Sharples asked Carlile to publicly acknowledge their relationship. Initially he prevaricated for fear of damaging his reputation, but in September 1833 he published a statement that his "moral marriage" was "one of the best, if not the very best in the country". In her Preface to
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Her lectures, which commenced on 29 January 1832, were staged theatrically. Wearing a "showy" dress, she was led ceremoniously on to the stage, which was strewn with radical symbols, such as whitethorn and laurel leaves. After her lecture she left the stage without taking questions from the audience,
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Liverpool, Sharples had eavesdropped on a discussion between her friend's father and Richard Carlile. In spite of Carlile's reputation as a dangerous atheist and political radical Sharples thought he was mild-mannered and handsome. About a year later she discovered
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During her last years, Sharples lived in poverty and the struggle to look after her family affected her health and motivation. Her public appearances were limited to a lecture in 1846 "on the Nature and
Character of Woman and her Position in Society" and a brief speech on the birthday anniversary of
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Carlile and Taylor, Sharples attacked the monarchy, the political establishment and organised religion, arguing that Christianity promoted superstition, prevented the dissemination of knowledge and denied man's liberty. In addition, she spoke in favour of women's rights to speak
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in a cousin's library and became interested enough to track down more of his works in a local radical bookshop. Carlile's writings transformed
Sharples' beliefs and led to what she later described as a "new birth…unto righteousness". In December 1831 she began to correspond with Carlile, who by now
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and took him in when his family ejected him from their home. She wanted to give a series of lectures on women's rights, but this was vetoed by the men who ran the
Temperance Hall. She wrote that they regarded her job as serving the coffee and scorned her belief that "all Reform will be found to be
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After his release from prison, Carlile resumed giving public lectures, both in London and elsewhere. Sharples accompanied him on his first provincial tour but returned to London in
October 1833, following their son's death from smallpox. A second son, Julian Hibbert, was born in 1834, after which
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Sharples and Carlile was physical as well as intellectual, and the first of their four children, Richard, was born in April 1833, while Carlile was still in prison. Carlile and his wife, Jane, had separated in 1830, but could not afford divorce proceedings. After meeting
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She attended boarding school until she was twenty years old, after which she remained at home, sewing and reading. The sudden deaths of her father, brother and sister, and the failure of prayer to save their lives, caused
Sharples to question her faith, resulting in a radical change in her life.
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Initially, Sharples achieved cult status, but her lack of training in public speaking soon led to a decline in income from audiences, and by the end of March
Carlile had closed the Rotunda and given up its lease. Sharples continued her lectures for a further three months, firstly at
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In order to protect her family, Sharples did not want her name to be made public, so Carlile promoted her as the mysterious "Lady of the Rotunda" or "Isis" (named after the Egyptian Goddess of Reason), the first Englishwoman to speak in public about religion and politics.
235:, where two daughters were born, Hypatia (1836) and Theophila (1837). Carlile continued to tour the country and Sharples would occasionally lecture in his place if he was ill. For much of the time she remained at home with the children.
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in public and challenged the Christian doctrine of original sin, proclaiming Eve to be "the personification of wisdom, of liberty, of resistance to tyranny; the mother of human knowledge; the proper help meet for man".
255:. She left after a few months and, with the aid of a small legacy from an aunt, took a house in London, where she supported herself and the children by needlework and letting rooms.
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Sharples, Carlile gave Jane an annuity, she and her children moved out of Carlile's house and Sharples moved in, to be joined by Carlile when he was released in August 1833.
684:"What Would the Goddess Do? Isis, Radical Grandmothers, and Eliza Sharples 'All Reform Will Be Found to Be Inefficient that Does Not Embrace the Rights of Woman'"
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