Anonymous pamphlets

Pamphlets were the fastest and most dangerous form of print, and anonymity was often the difference between argument and arrest.

2 works.

• Later revealed

  Common Sense (pamphlet)

  Published 1776 · pamphlet

  The January 1776 pamphlet that made the case for American independence, signed only 'an Englishman'. Thomas Paine acknowledged authorship within months.

• Still unknown

  Remarks on Cruelty to Animals

  Published 1795 · pamphlet

  A 1795 pamphlet against cruelty to animals, issued by the reformist printer George Nicholson without an author's name.

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