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MEMOIRS OF A
SOCIAL ATOM
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BY
W. E. ADAMS
Author of "Our American Cousins," etc.
WITH PORTRAITS
London: HUTCHINSON & CO.
Paternoster Row ♣ ♣ ♣ 1903
In grateful remembrance of many years of service and association, I
dedicate this work to the memory of
JOSEPH COWEN, M.P.
whose influence in journalism, courage in politics, and commanding
eloquence in the tribunes of the people, will ever be numbered among the
inspiring traditions of Northern England.
PREFACE
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THE greater portion of the matter composing these
pages was printed as a series of articles in the Newcastle Weekly
Chronicle, 1901—1902. The articles themselves were written in
Madeira during a compulsory residence there in the winter of 1900—1901.
Hearty thanks are due to the proprietors of the paper for permission to
reproduce them in the present form.
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
A FASHIONABLE TOWN
CHAPTER II
THE CLOSE SEASON
CHAPTER III
SOME CELEBRITIES AND OTHERS
CHAPTER IV
HEROINES OF HUMBLE LIFE
CHAPTER V
THE OLD ORDER
CHANGETH
CHAPTER VI
YIELDING PLACE TO THE NEW
CHAPTER VII
THE LAWS OF THE STREET
CHAPTER VIII
PAGE SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS
CHAPTER IX
APPRENTICE DAYS
CHAPTER X
HEROES OF THE STAGE
CHAPTER XI
PENNY DREADFULS AND CHEAP
LITERATURE
CHAPTER XII
CODDLING AND CULTURE
CHAPTER XIII
THE DISEASES OF OTHER DAYS
CHAPTER XIV
BALLOONISTS, MESMERISTS, CONJURORS
CHAPTER XV
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
CHAPTER XVI
CHARTISM
CHAPTER XVII
YOUNG CHARTISTS AND OLD
CHAPTER XVIII
FOOLISH AND FIERY CHARTISTS
CHAPTER XIX
THE FATHERS OF THE CHARTER
CHAPTER XX
JOHN FROST AND THE NEWPORT
RIOT
CHAPTER XXI
FEARGUS O'CONNOR
CHAPTER XXII
TWO DOCTORS AND A SCHOOLMASTER
CHAPTER XXIII
GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY
CHAPTER XXIV
THE LATER CHIEFS
OF CHARTISM
CHAPTER XXV
A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE
CHAPTER XXVI
OLD ELECTION PRACTICES
CHAPTER XXVII
IDEAL REPUBLICANISM
CHAPTER XXVIII
THOUGHT AND ACTION
CHAPTER XXIX
BRANTWOOD
CHAPTER XXX
ON TRAMP
CHAPTER XXXI
TRAMP LIFE
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. I
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1.
THE CHARTIST CONVENTION
OF 1839
2.
JOHN FROST
3.
FEARGUS O'CONNOR
4.
GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXXII
LONDON IN THE FIFTIES
CHAPTER XXXIII
A PROPAGANDA OF IDEAS
CHAPTER XXXIV
"THE ILLUSTRATED TIMES"
CHAPTER XXXV
THE COUP D'ETAT
CHAPTER XXXVI
"TYRANNICIDE"
CHAPTER XXXVII
"A LAME AND IMPOTENT CONCLUSION"
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE WORKING MEN'S
COLLEGE
CHAPTER XXXIX
MANCHESTER
CHAPTER XL
"THE NATIONAL REFORMER"
CHAPTER XLI
CHARLES BRADLAUGH
CHAPTER XLII
THE SLAVEOWNERS' WAR
CHAPTER XLIII
ENGLAND AND AMERICA
CHAPTER XLIV
THE LAST INSURRECTION
IN POLAND
CHAPTER XLV
"THE CITY OF DREADFUL
NIGHT"
CHAPTER XLVI
NEWCASTLE IN THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER XLVII
PASTIMES IN THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER XLVIII
NEWCASTLE JOURNALISTS
CHAPTER XLIX
JOSEPH COWEN
CHAPTER L
ERRORS AND SINGULARITIES OF THE
PRESS
CHAPTER LI
ECCENTRIC AND CRAZY PEOPLE
CHAPTER LII
POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS
CHAPTER LIII
"THE MORPETH HUBBUBBOO"
CHAPTER LIV
THE LAWS OF THE WORKSHOP
CHAPTER LV
DYNAMITE AND DAGGER
CHAPTER LVI
BLANQUI
CHAPTER LVII
PAGE DEGENERACY
CHAPTER LVIII
THE DECLINE OF MAN
CHAPTER LIX
APROPOS
CHAPTER LX
PEOPLE OF SOME IMPORTANCE
IN THEIR DAY
CHAPTER LXI
SCRAPINGS OF MEMORY
CHAPTER LXII
MORE SCRAPINGS
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II
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FELICE ORSINI
LOUIS NAPOLEON
EDWARD TRUELOVE
(From photo by Robt. Barrass, Newcastle-on -Tyne.)
CHARLES BRADLAUGH
(From photo presented to the author in 1860.)
JOSEPH COWEN
(From photo by Robert Barrass, Newcastle-on-Tyne.) |
