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The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself
Our edition · 1872 · 400 pages
The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself
by Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper rose from a shoemaker's bench in Leicester to become a leading Chartist agitator, was convicted of sedition in 1843, and wrote his verse epic in a Stafford jail. In prison and after he cast off his faith and spent years as a popular freethinking lecturer, until in 1856 he stood up at London's Hall of Science and publicly declared himself a Christian again. He gave the next thirty years to defending the faith he had attacked. This is his own full-length account, long counted among the finest memoirs of a self-taught Victorian working man.
The changed life
From imprisoned Chartist and platform skeptic to a Christian lecturer who spent his last decades defending the faith.
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