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Title

The life and literary pursuits of Allen Davenport : with a further selection of the author's work / compiled and edited by Malcolm Chase.

Author

Davenport, Allen.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Chase, Malcolm.

Description

xi, 128 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• Allen Davenport, a key figure linking Chartism with the French Revolution, was an important propagandist for agrarian reform, a critical follower of Robert Owen, one of the first male supporters of the feminist causes and birth control and a leading member of the revolutionary underground movement in Regency London. He was a prolific author, political journalist and poet.
• His autobiography, published in 1845, has long been presumed lost; historians have had to make do with tantalising fragments from contemporary reviews. When a copy was found in Nashville in 1982 it was immediately recognised as a unique source of information about nineteenth-century popular politics.
• . This Scolar Press volume reprints the complete text with editorial commentary, supplemented by a careful selection of Davenport's other writing. The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport gives a unique insight into the cultural and political life of England in the crowded years between Peterloo and Chartism.

Series Statement

The nineteenth century

Uniform Title

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Subjects

• Davenport, Allen
• Great Britain
• Davenport, Allen, b. 1775
• Working class > Great Britain > Biography
• Chartism > History > Sources
• Labour movements

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.

Contents

The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport -- A further selection from the works of Allen Davenport -- The Devil Out-Devilled (1818) -- To the editor of the Political Register (1818) -- The Kings: or Legitimacy Unmasked (1819) -- Queen of the Isles (1820) -- London (1827) -- The Co-operator's Catechism (1830) -- The Working Classes Come to Their Senses (1833) -- Property in Danger (1835) -- Simultaneous Meetings (1835) -- Universal Suffrage (1839) -- The English Institutions: An Educational Poem (1842) -- The Origin of Man and the Progress of Society (1846) -- The Land, the People's Farm (1846).

ISBN

1859280684

LCCN

94005838

OCLC

ocm30027606

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries