[PDF] The Chartist Prisoners eBook

Author : Stephen Roberts
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783039113880

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This book recovers the stories of two remarkable Victorian working men. Thomas Cooper and Arthur O'Neill were both imprisoned for seditious offences in 1843. The friendship they formed in Stafford Gaol lasted for fifty years. These two men wanted to be remembered as Chartist prisoners - but, talented and energetic, they also made their marks in other areas. Cooper was the author of a famous poem, The Purgatory of Suicides, and of novels; he knew well Thomas Carlyle and Charles Kingsley, and came into contact with Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Dickens. Later in life he became a lecturer in defence of Christianity. O'Neill worked with Joseph Sturge and Henry Richard for peace and international arbitration, attending a number of international peace conferences. An important contribution to Chartist studies, this book also examines in detail artisan literary activity, pacifism and Christian apologetics in Victorian Britain.

Author : J. Schwarzkopf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1991-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0230379613

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Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions through universal suffrage. Women's wide-ranging support of Chartism encompassed everything from extensive lecturing tours to domestic servicing of politically active menfolk. In this first full-length study of women's involvement in Chartism, the author demonstrates that, in their struggle, which lasted for more than a decade, Chartist men and women enforced in their own ranks standards of respectable man- and womanhood that were to shape working-class gender relations well into this century.

Author : Robert George Gammage
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230264134

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... favourable to those principles. He condemned the democratic institutions of America, and said all he could to excite the prejudices of his hearers against the prisoners, and expressed the deepest regret that the law was not more stringent with regard to offenders of that class. In sentencing some of the prisoners he told them that he entertained for them no other feelings than those of abhorrence and contempt. He also told them that the House of Commons would never allow members to sit in that House without a property qualification. He appeared ignorant of the fact that all the Scotch members were already sitting there without any such qualification. In short, this ferocious political judge threw all the opprobrium he could on the industrial orders, and all who advocated their cause. He set forth that the bulk of society were ever to remain the branded slaves of the few. This charge excited great indignation throughout the country. Even the middle class press denounced it; and it was made the subject of discussion and of a motion by Duncombe in the House of Commons; and although the motion was lost, it had a goodly number of supporters, and a very strong opinion was expressed against the brutal conduct of Lord Abinger, who not long after died, we believe unregretted, except amongst his private friends. Almost immediately after the March assizes Duncombe also brought forward a motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to enquire into certain grievances complained of by White, Harney, Brook, Leach, Morrison, Skevington, and many others, in all about twenty-two persons. The petitions set forth a number of complaints as to a demand for excessive bail, harshness of proceeding when arrested, annoyances while in prison, and other similar...

Author : W. N. Johns
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230445526

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... whole body pretty well together, gave the command, "March!" "March was re-echoed by Jack the Fifer, and other lieutenants; and the whole force then left the tramway, and took the road leading by the Friars up to Stow Church. Thence passing onward, they pursued their way down the hill, presenting an appearance almost indescribable. Frost, in his big rough coat and red cravat, led the van, immediately followed by those who carried guns, walking four or five abreast. Next came those who possessed pikes, the rear being brought up by those who wielded mandrils, pitchforks, sticks, &c. Captain Stack, a fine Peninsular veteran, was out with his undaunted few of the 45th, near their Barracks on Stow Hill, and stood with his son, Ensign Stack, at their head; but the 'E mass of Chartists dared not approach, though within a few hundred yards. On the raised footway down Stow Hill were hundreds of people, whose curiosity was greater than their fear; and at the windows of the houses, from which a view of Stow Hill might be obtained, faces might be noticed cautiously peeping as if fearful of some disaster befalling them, if only observed. Where such faces were noticed, the guns were immediately directed thereto, causing the concealed spectator to start back with sudden terror. Men engaged on the roof of the Catholic Church, then in course of erection, hastened down in fright, and escaped from all apparent danger. On came the Chartists at a quick pace, shouting excitedly, "Clear the road! clear the road I" "To the Westgate!" "Our prisoners!" &c, making it evident to bystanders that the Westgate was their goal. THE FINAL GOAL. On arriving at the bottom of the hill, the open space was comparatively...

Author : Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1916
Category : History
ISBN :

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Examines the Chartist Movement in Britain during the early 1800's. Looks at issues such as the "six points" of Chartism, the Whig Rule, the New Poor Law, and the leaders and members of the movement.

Author : Frank F. Rosenblatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136608060

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Professor Rosenblatt’s The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport, South Wales, in November 1839. As well as describing the political, industrial and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement, this work contains extremely useful statistical tables of the 543 persons who were convicted for offences committed in the furtherance of Chartism between January 1839 and June 1840. "This is a particularly satisfactory piece of work as regards sketches of the leaders of the movement and of the spirit in which they preached the gospel of revolt." - American Historical Review, 1916.

Author : Frank F Rosenblatt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0429642571

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First published in 1916, Professor Rosenblatt's The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport, South Wales, in November 1839. As well as describing the political, industrial and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement, this work contains extremely useful statistical tables of the 543 persons who were convicted for offences committed in the furtherance of Chartism between January 1839 and June 1840.