on Sixpence A-day, as the initial inspiration for his vegetarianism. Selected publications Journal in Jail: Kept During a Four Months' Imprisonment for Libel, in the Jail of Erie County (1840) Esoteric Anthropology (The Mysteries of Man) (1853) Esperanza: My Journey Thither and What I Found There (1860) Forty Years of American Life (1864) Uncle Angus (1864) Jerry (1872) How to Live on Sixpence A-day (1873) The Herald of Health (1877) Dr. Nichols' Penny Vegetarian Cookery: The Science and the Art of Selecting and Preparing a Pure, Healthful, and Sufficient Diet Illustrated by Food Diagrams and Portraits of Distinguished Vegetarians (1888) References Further reading External links Thomas Low Nichols at the Internet Archive Online books by Thomas Low Nichols 1815 births 1901 deaths 19th-century American male writers Activists from New Hampshire Alternative cancer treatment advocates American autobiographers American health and wellness writers American pamphleteers American male non-fiction writers American prisoners and detainees American spiritualists American suffragists American temperance activists American vegetarianism activists American women's rights activists American anti-vaccination activists Anti-vivisectionists Converts to Roman Catholicism Hydrotherapists Journalists from New Hampshire Male feminists New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni Organization founders People associated with physical culture People from Orford, New Hampshire Pseudoscientific diet advocates