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Carlile did fully agree with her husband’s views, though not so fully with his intransigence in standing up for them. At this critical juncture she stood by him, and, being an excellent woman of business, ran the shop with considerable success, profiting by the large demand which the trials had produced for a type of publication which the
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Carlile, "whose life comes to us filtered through her husband." With others, like, Helen Rogers she has noted that defences such as Jane Carlile's (that she acted out of ‘conjugal duty’)
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