Minor Victorian Poets and Authors. (original) (raw)

Welcome. This web site is dedicated to the life and work of the Chartist, poet, author, and free thinker, Gerald Massey, and to comparable poets and authors of his era, a number of whom by their protests were to influence social reform in Victorian Britain. Most had working-class backgrounds. My aim is to resurrect their writing, much of which has for many decades been unavailable outside of national archives and university libraries, and to place it before a wider audience.

Ian Petticrew

Gerald Massey

(1828-1907)"They must find it hard to take Truth for Authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth."

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ACKWORTH, JOHN(1854-1917) ADAMS, WILLIAM EDWIN (1832-1906) ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (1845-1909) BAMFORD, SAMUEL (1788-1872) BETHAM-EDWARDS, MATILDA (1836-1919) BEZER, JOHN JAMES (1816-ca. 1862-8) BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (1825-84) BRIERLEY, BENJAMIN (1825-96**)** COOPER, THOMAS (1805-1892) CRAIG, ISA (1831-1903) ELLIOTT, EBENEZER (1781-1849) FAITHFULL, EMILY (1835-95) HOLYOAKE, GEORGE JACOB (1817-1906) HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845) HOVELL, MARK (1888-1916) HULL, GEORGE (1863-1933) GERALD MASSEY Carte de Visit image, ca. 1856.
"The liberty of opinion is the most sacred of all liberties, for it is the basis of all . . ." ERNEST JONES
GERALD MASSEY ca. 1886. INGELOW, JEAN (1820-97) JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-69) LAYCOCK, SAMUEL (1826-93) LINTON, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-97) LOVETT, WILLIAM (1800-77) MACFARLAN, JAMES (1832-1862) MASSEY, (THOMAS) GERALD (1828-1907) MAYO, ISABELLA FYVIE (1843-1914) MILLER, HUGH (1802-56) NICOLL, ROBERT (1814-37) PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY (1808-66) PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (1825-1864) SKIPSEY, JOSEPH (1832-1903) SMILES, SAMUEL (1812-1904) WAUGH, EDWIN (1817-1890) WEST, JULIUS (1891-1918)
A LANCASHIRE MISCELLANY AW connod sing o'er heroes bowd, Ut feyt i' forren parts,For't thowts o'th widows left at hooam, To dee o' brokken hearts,Whol nation's hev bin bowt an' sowd,To furnish few wi' fame an' gowd! . . . . John Rawcliffe THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT Site Search
――――♦―――― "A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know." G. J. HOLYOAKE LIST OF PUBLISHED BOOKS
"ACKWORTH, JOHN" (The Rev. FREDERICK R. SMITH) Clog Shop Chronicles Beckside Lights The Scowcroft Critics Doxie Dent The Making of the Million. Tales of the Twentieth Century Fund The Minder ― The Story Of The Courtship, Call And Conflicts Of John Ledger, Minder And Minister The Coming of the Preachers. A Tale of the Rise of Methodism The Mangle House: a Lancashire Tale From Crooked Roots Old Wenyon's Will The Partners Life's Working Creed�a series of sermons on the present-day meaning of the Epistle of St. James.
ADAMS, WILLIAM EDWIN Memoirs of a Social Atom (autobiography) Our American CousinsPamphlets, etc.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER Songs of the Rail Ballads and Sonnets Later Poems
BAMFORD, SAMUEL Early Days & Passages in the Life of a Radical (autobiography) Walks in South Lancashire Homely Rhymes, Poems & Reminiscences Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary
"Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving." Samuel Johnson
BETHAM-EDWARDS, MATILDA Reminiscences (autobiography) Mid-Victorian Memories Literary Rambles in France Unfrequented FranceHome Life in France Snowflakes and the stories they told the children Little Bird Red, Little Bird Blue
BEZER, JOHN JAMES The Autobiography of One of the Chartist Rebels of 1848
BILLINGTON, WILLIAM Sheen and ShadePendle HillLancashire Songs with other Poems & Sketches
BRIERLEY, BENJAMIN ("BEN") Marlocks of MeritonSpring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves Ab-o'th-Yate: Sketches and other short stories (Vol.I) Ab-o'th-Yate: Sketches and other short stories (Vol. II) Ab-o'th-Yate: Sketches and other short stories (Vol. III)Ab-o'th-Yate in Yankeeland (Visits to the USA in 1880 & 84)Adventures at BlackpoolLancashire Wit and Humour Bunk Ho, or a Lancashire Merry Christmas The Chronicles of Waverlow
COOPER, THOMAS The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself (autobiography)Thoughts at Fourscore, and Earlier (autobiography)Bridge of History Over the Gulf of TimeOld Fashioned StoriesTriumphs of Perseverance and EnterprisePrison RhymesThe Purgatory of Suicides - a Prison-Rhyme in ten Books The Baron's Yule Feast - a Christmas Rhyme The Paradise of Martyrs - a Faith-Rhyme in five Books'Thomas Cooper the Chartist: Byron and the Poets of the Poor', a published lecture by Professor Philip Collins
THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT (Various authors) The History of the Rochdale PioneersThe History of Co-operationLeeds Industrial Co-operative Society (Jubilee)Jubilee History of the Derby Co-operative Provident Society History of the Stalybridge Good Intent Industrial Co-operative Society (Jubilee) Village Co-operation. A Jubilee Sketch of Greenfield Co-operative Society Ltd. 1856-1906 One Hundred Years of Village Co-operation (Greenfield Co-operative Society 1856-1956) The origin and history of co-operation in Bury (1855-1905)
CRAIG, ISA (MRS. ISA CRAIG-KNOX) Poems by IsaThe Duchess Agnes and other poems Songs of ConsolationAn Offering to Lancashire (1863) � edited by Isa Craig**_ Round the Court**Peggy Oglivie's InheritanceEsther West Fanny's Fortune ** A Heroine of Home** ** Tales on The Parables (Vol. I)** ** Tales on The Parables (Vol. II)** Little Folks' History of England ** Deepdale Vicarage (now thought to be by Mary and Elizabeth Kirby)"The Argosy_**" (1865-66): poetry and prose by various poets and authors published in this Victorian periodical, at the time edited by Isa Craig.
ELLIOTT, EBENEZER Autobiographical SketchThe Splendid Village & Corn Law Rhymes
FAITHFULL, EMILY Three Visits to America A Reed Shaken with the Wind
HOLYOAKE, GEORGE JACOB Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life (autobiography)Bygones Worth Remembering (autobiography)Among the AmericansThe Rochdale Pioneers The Jubilee History of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative SocietyThe Jubilee History of the Derby Co-operative SocietyThe History of Co-operation Public Speaking and Debate
"Language is the dress of thought." Samuel Johnson
HOOD, THOMAS The Poetic Works of Thomas HoodThe Comic Annual (1834 edition)Sheet music
HOVELL, MARK The Chartist Movement
HULL, GEORGE The Poets and Poetry of BlackburnEnglish Lyrics and Lancashire SongsTales from the Ribble Valley (with Cornellius MacManus)
JEAN INGELOW Poems A Story of Doom and other poems The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems of Love and Childhood Poems of the Old Days and the New The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow Studies for Stories Stories Told to a Child A Sister's Bye-Hours Mopsa the Fair. Wonderbox Tales Allerton and Dreux; or, The War of Opinion (Vol.I) Allerton and Dreux; or, The War of Opinion (vol.II) Off the Skelligs Fated to be Free Sarah de Berenger Don John John Jerome - his thoughts and waysA Motto Changed - or a little less than kin, and more than kind Sheet music Sheet music: ('O Fair Dove! O Fond Dove!' set by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
JONES, ERNEST CHARLES The Battle-Day and other poemsPoems (from 'Notes to the People' and other journals) Woman's WrongsDemocracy Vindicated; - in response to Professor Blackie. . . . . . . On Democracy Pamphlets. . . .The Slaveholder's War; The American Rebellion The Cabinet Newspaper : edition for 27 August, 1859.The Death and Posthumous Life of Ernest Jones (by Antony Taylor)
LAYCOCK, SAMUEL Warblin's of an Owd SongsterLancashire Kesmus Singin' Fifty Year Sin'Election of M.P. � an Original Drama.Broadsheets
LINTON, WILLIAM JAMES Memories (autobiography) Claribel and other poemsWho were the Chartists?Republican LettersThe English Republic James Watson: A Memoire The Flower and the Star
LOVETT, WILLIAM Life and Struggles of William Lovett (autobiography) Chartism: a New Organization of the People (by Lovett & John Collins)
MACFARLAN, JAMES The Poetical Works of James Macfarlan
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." Samuel Johnson
MASSEY, (THOMAS) GERALD The Secret Drama of Shakspeare's Sonnets Index to Massey's PoetryIndex to Massey's Prose Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical and Freethinker - a biography by David Shaw (2nd edition, 2009) Sheet music
MAYO, ISABELLA FYVIE ("EDWARD GARRETT") Recollections of Fifty Years (autobiography) The Secret Drawer By Still Waters The Occupations of a Retired Life Doing and Dreaming The Dead Sin and other stories Family Fortunes. A Domestic Story A Real Lady At Any Cost Rab Bethune's Double Short stories & essays Poems (a miscellany collected from magazines of the period).
MILLER, HUGH My Schools and Schoolmasters (autobiography)First Impressions of England and its PeopleTales and Sketches Scenes and Legends of the North of ScotlandThe Cruise of the Betsey; Rambles of a GeologistLeading Articles
NICOLL, ROBERT Poems and LyricsSome editorials for the Leeds Times
PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY Hours with the MusesDreams and Realities in Verse and ProseThe Poetic RosaryAutumn LeavesMiscellaneous PoemsUnpublished PoemsBiography - by R. A. Douglas Lithgow, LL.D.
PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE Legends and Lyrics (1)Legends and Lyrics (2)A Chaplet of VersesSheet music
SMILES, SAMUEL Self-Help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance. James Brindley and the Early Engineers. Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie. Lives of the Engineers: Boulton and Watt. Lives of the Engineers: Metcalfe�Telford (History of Roads) The Life of George Stephenson and of his son Robert Stephenson Brief Biographies Men of Invention and Industry
SKIPSEY, JOSEPH A Book of Miscellaneous Lyrics Carols from the Coal-Fields and other songs and ballads Songs and LyricsPrefatory Sketches (1)�Burns & ShelleyPrefatory Sketches (2)�Blake, Coleridge & Poe
WAUGH, EDWIN Lancashire SongsLancashire Songs (sheet music) Poems and Songs Poems and Songs (2nd series) Besom Ben Stories "Tufts of Heather",Volume I.; Volume II. The Chimney Corner The Limping Pilgrim Lancashire Sketches�Vol. I. Lancashire Sketches�Vol. II.Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton FamineThe Barrel Organ Sketches of Lancashire LifeIrish Sketches: Poesies**_ Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders_**Sheet music � "Lancashire Songs" by Edwin Waugh (settings various)Sheet music � "Twenty Songs by Edwin Waugh" (settings by C. E. Rowley)Sheet music � "Dialect Songs of the North" (settings various) Preface and Introduction to 'Lancashire Sketches' by George Milner (in effect, a brief biography of Waugh)
WEST, JULIUS A History of the Chartist Movement

MODERN ACADEMIC AND OTHER WORK


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