Highgate Cemetery #13: Edward Truelove

'IN MEMORY OF
EDWARD TRUELOVE
PUBLISHER.
BORN OCTOBER 29TH 1809,
DIED APRIL 21ST 1899,
IN HIS NINETIETH YEAR.

 

REGARDLESS OF OBLOQUY, SUFFERING AND
WORLDLY LOSS, HE BATTLED BRAVELY THROUGHOUT
A LONG AND TROUBLED LIFE TO MAINTAIN THE RIGHT

OF FREE SPEECH AND FREE THOUGHT.'

 

Edward Truelove was a radical publisher who followed Robert Owen and worked for a year at Owen's utopian community, New Harmony, in Indiana. His first bookshop was in the Strand in 1852, followed by another in Holborn. Although he escaped prosecution for blasphemy (for publishing W. E. Adams's Tyrannicide), he spent four months in prison for publishing Owen's son Robert Dale Owen's Moral Physiology, concerning contraception.