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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)
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ADAMS, WILLIAM
EDWIN (1832-1906)
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ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (1845-1909)
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BAMFORD, SAMUEL
(1788-1872)
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BETHAM-EDWARDS,
MATILDA
(1836-1919)
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BEZER, JOHN
JAMES (1816-ca. 1862-8)
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BILLINGTON, WILLIAM
(1825-84)
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BRIERLEY,
BENJAMIN
(1825-96)
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COOPER, THOMAS (1805-1892)
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CRAIG, ISA
(1831-1903)
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ELLIOTT, EBENEZER (1781-1849)
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FAITHFULL, EMILY (1835-95)
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HOLYOAKE, GEORGE
JACOB (1817-1906)
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HOOD, THOMAS
(1799-1845)
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HOVELL,
MARK (1888-1916)
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HULL, GEORGE
(1863-1933)
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GERALD MASSEY
Carte de Visit image, ca. 1856. |
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"The liberty of opinion is the most sacred of all
liberties,
for it is the basis of all . . ."
ERNEST JONES
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GERALD
MASSEY
ca. 1886. |
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INGELOW, JEAN
(1820-97)
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JONES, ERNEST
CHARLES
(1819-69)
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LAYCOCK, SAMUEL (1826-93)
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LINTON, WILLIAM
JAMES
(1812-97)
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LOVETT,
WILLIAM
(1800-77)
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MACFARLAN, JAMES (1832-1862)
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MASSEY, (THOMAS)
GERALD (1828-1907)
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MAYO, ISABELLA
FYVIE (1843-1914)
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MILLER, HUGH (1802-56)
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NICOLL, ROBERT
(1814-37)
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PRINCE, JOHN
CRITCHLEY (1808-66)
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PROCTER, ADELAIDE
ANNE (1825-1864)
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SKIPSEY, JOSEPH
(1832-1903)
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SMILES,
SAMUEL
(1812-1904)
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WAUGH,
EDWIN
(1817-1890)
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WEST,
JULIUS
(1891-1918)
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A
LANCASHIRE MISCELLANY
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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
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"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
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"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.
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ADAMS, WILLIAM EDWIN |
Memoirs of a Social Atom (autobiography)
Our American Cousins
Pamphlets, etc.
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ANDERSON, ALEXANDER |
Songs of the Rail
Ballads and Sonnets
Later Poems
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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
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"Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more
than the choice of working or starving."
Samuel
Johnson |
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BETHAM-EDWARDS, MATILDA |
Reminiscences (autobiography)
Mid-Victorian Memories
Literary Rambles in France
Unfrequented France
Home Life
in France
Snowflakes and the stories they told the children
Little Bird Red, Little Bird Blue
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BEZER, JOHN JAMES |
The Autobiography
of One of the Chartist Rebels of 1848
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BILLINGTON, WILLIAM |
Sheen and Shade
Pendle Hill
Lancashire
Songs with other Poems & Sketches
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BRIERLEY, BENJAMIN ("BEN") |
Marlocks of Meriton
Spring 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
Blackpool
Lancashire
Wit and Humour
Bunk Ho, or a
Lancashire Merry Christmas
The Chronicles of Waverlow
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COOPER, THOMAS |
The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by
Himself
(autobiography)
Thoughts at
Fourscore, and Earlier (autobiography)
Bridge of
History Over the Gulf of Time
Old Fashioned
Stories
Triumphs of
Perseverance and Enterprise
Prison Rhymes
The 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
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THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT
(Various authors) |
The
History of the Rochdale Pioneers
The History of
Co-operation
Leeds
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)
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CRAIG, ISA
(MRS. ISA CRAIG-KNOX) |
Poems by Isa
The Duchess
Agnes and other poems
Songs of Consolation
An
Offering to Lancashire (1863) — edited by Isa Craig
Round the Court
Peggy Oglivie's
Inheritance
Esther 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.
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ELLIOTT, EBENEZER |
Autobiographical Sketch
The Splendid
Village & Corn Law Rhymes
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FAITHFULL, EMILY |
Three Visits to America
A Reed Shaken with the Wind
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HOLYOAKE, GEORGE
JACOB |
Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life
(autobiography)
Bygones Worth
Remembering
(autobiography)
Among the
Americans
The Rochdale
Pioneers
The Jubilee History of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative
Society
The Jubilee
History of the Derby Co-operative Society
The History of
Co-operation
Public
Speaking and Debate
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"Language is the dress of thought."
Samuel Johnson |
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HOOD, THOMAS |
The
Poetic Works of Thomas Hood
The Comic Annual
(1834 edition)
Sheet music
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HOVELL, MARK |
The Chartist Movement
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HULL, GEORGE |
The Poets and Poetry of Blackburn
English Lyrics
and Lancashire Songs
Tales from the Ribble
Valley (with Cornellius MacManus)
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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 ways
A 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)
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JONES, ERNEST CHARLES |
The Battle-Day and other poems
Poems
(from 'Notes to the People' and other journals)
Woman's Wrongs
Democracy
Vindicated; - in response to Professor Blackie. . .
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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)
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LAYCOCK, SAMUEL |
Warblin's of an Owd Songster
Lancashire
Kesmus Singin' Fifty Year Sin'
Election of M.P. —
an Original Drama.
Broadsheets
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LINTON, WILLIAM JAMES |
Memories
(autobiography)
Claribel and other poems
Who were the
Chartists?
Republican
Letters
The English
Republic
James Watson: A Memoire
The Flower and the Star
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LOVETT, WILLIAM |
Life and Struggles of William Lovett
(autobiography)
Chartism: a New Organization of the People
(by Lovett & John Collins)
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MACFARLAN, JAMES |
The Poetical Works of James Macfarlan
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"What is written without effort is in general read without
pleasure."
Samuel
Johnson |
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MASSEY,
(THOMAS) GERALD |
The Secret
Drama of Shakspeare's Sonnets
Index to Massey's Poetry
Index to Massey's
Prose
Gerald Massey:
Chartist, Poet, Radical and
Freethinker
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a biography by David Shaw (2nd edition, 2009)
Sheet music
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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).
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MILLER, HUGH |
My Schools and Schoolmasters
(autobiography)
First Impressions
of England and its People
Tales and Sketches
Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland
The Cruise of the
Betsey; Rambles of a Geologist
Leading Articles
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NICOLL, ROBERT |
Poems and Lyrics
Some editorials
for the Leeds Times
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PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY |
Hours with the Muses
Dreams and Realities
in Verse and Prose
The Poetic Rosary
Autumn Leaves
Miscellaneous
Poems
Unpublished Poems
Biography -
by R. A. Douglas Lithgow, LL.D.
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PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE |
Legends and Lyrics (1)
Legends and
Lyrics (2)
A Chaplet of
Verses
Sheet music
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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
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SKIPSEY, JOSEPH |
A Book of Miscellaneous Lyrics
Carols from the Coal-Fields and
other songs and ballads
Songs and
Lyrics
Prefatory Sketches
(1)—Burns & Shelley
Prefatory Sketches
(2)—Blake, Coleridge & Poe
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WAUGH, EDWIN |
Lancashire
Songs
Lancashire 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 Famine
The Barrel Organ
Sketches of Lancashire Life
Irish 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)
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WEST, JULIUS |
A
History of the Chartist Movement
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MODERN ACADEMIC AND
OTHER WORK
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