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THOMAS COOPER.
PRESS REPORTS,
LITERARY
REVIEWS,
ETC.
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Opinions of the Press: on the PURGATORY OF
SUICIDES. These 'opinions' were
annexed to Cooper's "Baron's
Yule Feast" of 1846. If there were any, the
reviewers' weightier comments are excluded leaving a collection
of vague and nebulous eulogies:―
Britannia, Aug. 30. 1845;
Sentinel, Oct. 12.
1845; Anthenĉum,
Sept. 6. 1845; Illuminated
Magazine, Oct. 1. 1845;
Kentish Independent, Oct.
11. 1845; Nottingham
Review, Oct. 17, 1845;
Sheffield Iris, Nov. 6,
1845; Leicestershire
Mercury (Ed.―still in business), December 13. 1845.
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Opinions of the Press: on WISE SAWS
AND MODERN INSTANCES.
Cooper said of this: "They [the stories] were there [in Stafford
Gaol] written as a relief from the intenser thought and feeling
exercised in the building-up of my prison-rhyme, "The Purgatory
of Suicides"; and were published a few weeks after the poem
appeared, in November, 1845, under the title of Wise Saws and
Modern Instances: a title which I did not choose, and did
not like." Thus, when Cooper extended and republished the
book some 30 years later, it appeared as "Old
Fashioned Stories":―
Athenĉum, Nov. 15, 1845;
Atlas, Nov. 22, 1845;
Britannia, Nov. 8,
1845; Kentish
Independent, Dec. 13. 1845;
Leicester Chronicle,
Dec. 6, 1845; Glasgow
Citizen, Nov. 15,1845.
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Cooper meets de Quincy
and interviews the sister of Robert Burns: from
The International Monthly Magazine,
of Literature, Science and Art, Vol. IV, 1851.
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Lecture advertisement: from the
Manchester Guardian 19
Jan, 1856.
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Thomas Cooper and
Thomas Carlyle: from 'Thomas Carlyle',
Harpers New Monthly Magazine,
New York, 1881.
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Obituary: The Times Saturday,
July 16, 1892.
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Funeral of Thomas Cooper:
The Times, July 19th,
1892.
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Two songs by Thomas Cooper.
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Handwriting: a short undated
letter from Cooper.
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Biographic Sketch: Mark
Hovell on Thomas Cooper, from
THE CHARTIST
MOVEMENT, chapter XII.
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