Minor Victorian Poets and Authors.

ADAMS, WILLIAM EDWIN (1832-1906) ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (1845-1909) BAMFORD, SAMUEL (1788-1872) BEZER, JOHN JAMES (1816-ca. 1862-8) BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (1825-84) 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) HULL, GEORGE (1863-1933) INGELOW, JEAN (1820-97)	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.	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) WAUGH, EDWIN (1817-1890)
HOVELL, MARK (1888-1916)

BOOK LIST
ADAMS, WILLIAM EDWIN	Memoirs of a Social Atom Our American Cousins Pamphlets, etc.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER	Songs of the Rail Ballads and Sonnets Later Poems
BAMFORD, SAMUEL	Early Days & Passages in the Life of a Radical Walks in South Lancashire Homely Rhymes, Poems & Reminiscences *Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary*
BEZER, JOHN JAMES	The Autobiography of One of the Chartist Rebels of 1848
BILLINGTON, WILLIAM	Sheen and Shade Pendle Hill Lancashire Songs with other Poems & Sketches
COOPER, THOMAS	The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself Thoughts at Fourscore, and Earlier 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
CRAIG, ISA	Poems by Isa The Duchess Agnes and other poems An Offering to Lancashire (1863) — edited by Isa Craig Esther West Peggy Oglivie's Inheritance *Deepdale Vicarage* "*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 Sketch* The 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 Bygones Worth Remembering 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
HOOD, THOMAS	The Poetic Works of Thomas Hood The Comic Annual (1834 edition)
HOVELL, MARK	*The Chartist Movement*
HULL, GEORGE	The Poets and Poetry of Blackburn English Lyrics and Lancashire Songs
JEAN INGELOW	Poems *A Story of Doom and other poems* *Studies for Stories* *Stories Told to a Child* *A Sister's Bye-Hours* *Mopsa the Fair.* *Off the Skelligs* *Fated to be Free* *Sarah de Berenger* *Don John* *John Jerome - his thoughts and ways*
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. . . . . . . On Democracy Pamphlets. . . .The Slaveholder's War; The American Rebellion The Death and Posthumous Life of Ernest Jones (by Antony Taylor)
LAYCOCK, SAMUEL	Warblin's of an Owd Songster Broadsheets
LINTON, WILLIAM JAMES	Memories Claribel and other poems Who were the Chartists? Republican Letters The English Republic *James Watson: A Memoire* *The Flower and the Star*
LOVETT, WILLIAM	*Life and Struggles of William Lovett* *Chartism: a New Organization of the People (by Lovett & John Collins)*
MACFARLAN, JAMES	The Poetical Works of James Macfarlan
MASSEY, 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 - a biography by David Shaw *A Book of the Beginnings (edition* Jon Lange) *The Natural Genesis (edition* Jon Lange) Ancient Egypt, The Light of the World (edition Jon Lange)
MAYO, ISABELLA FYVIE ("EDWARD GARRETT")	*Recollections of Fifty Years* *The Occupations of a Retired Life* *By Still Waters* *Doing and Dreaming* A Real Lady *At Any Cost* *Rab Bethune's Double* *Short stories & essays*
MILLER, HUGH	My Schools and Schoolmasters 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
NICOLL, ROBERT	Poems and Lyrics Some editorials for the Leeds Times
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.
PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE	Legends and Lyrics (1) Legends and Lyrics (2) A Chaplet of Verses
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
WAUGH, EDWIN	Lancashire Songs *Poems and Songs* *Poems and Songs (2nd series)* *Besom Ben Stories* Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine The Barrel Organ *Sketches of Lancashire Life* *Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders* Preface and Introduction to 'Lancashire Sketches' by George Milner (in effect, a brief biography of Waugh)

**See also . . . .**

Helen Nield's website . . . . Victorian Popular Novels. ―――♦―――	John Weedy's website . . . . Illustrated London News ―――♦―――	Jon Lange's website . . . . Massey's works on Evolution. ―――♦―――

Mark Crail's website . . . . Chartist Ancestors.	Labouring-Class Writers Project.	George Landow's website . . . . Literature, history & culture of the Victorian Age.
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