Matilda Roalfe


Matilda Roalfe was a British author, bookshop owner, The Atheistical Depot, Edinburgh and publisher, Matilda Roalfe & Company.

Bookshop

Roalfe ran a bookshop, The Atheistical Depot, in Edinburgh. She was a friend of fellow feminist freethinker Emma Martin

Author

Together with Charles Southwell, she wrote I am a Christian.
She wrote and published Law breaking justified, a 16-page booklet on the subject of blasphemy.
Together with Thomas Paterson and Thomas Finlay, she wrote "The Trial of Thomas Paterson, for Blasphemy, Before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, with the Whole of His Bold and Effective Defence. Also, the Trials of Thomas Finlay and Miss Matilda Roalfe, in the Sheriffs' Court. With Notes and a Special Dissertation on Blasphemy Prosecution in General, by the Secretary of the Anti-Persecution Union", published by Henry Hetherington, London and Edinburgh

Publisher

Roalfe ran a publishing company, Matilda Roalfe & Company, 105 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh.

Imprisonment

Roalfe was a prisoner for some time in Calton Jail, Edinburgh, following her 1844 trial for blasphemy.