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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 political and social reform in
Victorian Britain. Most have 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.
"They must find it hard to take Truth for Authority
who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth."
Gerald Massey
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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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BEZER, JOHN
JAMES (1816-ca. 1862-8)
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BILLINGTON, WILLIAM
(1825-84)
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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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HULL, GEORGE
(1863-1933)
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INGELOW, JEAN
(1820-97)
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HOVELL,
MARK (1888-1916)
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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
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GERALD
MASSEY
ca. 1886. |
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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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WAUGH, EDWIN
(1817-1890)
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION: |
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JOHN ACKWORTH
(The Rev. F. R. Smith) |
Lancashire tales:
"Clog Shop Chronicles", London, Charles H. Kelly, 1896. |
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PLANNED: |
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JOHN ACKWORTH
(The Rev. F. R. Smith) |
Lancashire tales:
"Doxie Dent", London, Charles H. Kelly, 1899. |
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BOOK LIST
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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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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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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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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.
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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
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HOOD, THOMAS |
The
Poetic Works of Thomas Hood
The Comic Annual
(1834 edition)
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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
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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
Sheet music
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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
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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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
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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)
Sheet music
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MAYO, ISABELLA
FYVIE
("EDWARD GARRETT") |
Recollections of Fifty Years
(autobiography)
By Still Waters
The
Occupations of a Retired Life
Doing and
Dreaming
The Dead Sin and other stories
A Real Lady
At Any Cost
Rab Bethune's Double
Short
stories & essays
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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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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.
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)
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