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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
A notable exception to this pattern of extremely limited access occurred between the 1810s and 1830s. William Dugdale, George Cannon, and the brothers Duncombe printed both revolutionary tracts and pornographic works. See: McCalman, Radical Underworld. As a group, these revolutionary pornographers sold slightly less expensive pornography out of republican sentiment which might have increased working class access. However, patterns of low literacy rates for the poor, unequal repression, and limited distribution continued even during their reign. As a sidenote, for those interested in revolutionary culture and E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Dugdale "was implicated in the Cato Street conspiracy" according to H. S. Ashbee, Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877; reprint, New York, 1962), 127. via "FILTH IN THE WRONG PEOPLE'S HANDS: POSTCARDS AND THE EXPANSION OF PORNOGRAPHY IN BRITAIN AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1880-1914.", 200 Sigel, Lisa Z.
