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James Gregory is Lecturer in British History Since 1800 at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain; Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian England and Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain, all of which are published by I.B.Tauris.

James Gregory has not only rescued James Elmslie Duncan from obscurity and condescension, he has also written a book that transforms our understanding of the poetry and politics of early Victorian radicalism and reform.

Malcolm Chase,
Professor of Social History, University of Leeds

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Library of Victorian Studies: 9

ISBN: 978 1 78076 723 9
eISBN: 978 0 85773 619 2

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For David and Helen

The Poetic Spirit Remember, a poetic spirit doth not consist in jingling sentences together on every mile-stone or broken pitcher with which ye may meet, nor in the apostrophising every flower or plant that may lie around your path. I would rather disadvise than advise the writing of such, for verse is a Will-o-the-wisp that hath led, and still leadeth, many loving minds to destruction. Once caught, they follow the glittering thing, fancying themselves Shakspeares or Miltons, Byrons or Shelleys, and call the world unjust, when it pronounces its sentence.

The Peoples Journal 5, 1848, p.48.

Revolutions, and periods of political excitement, push many a man into prominence who might otherwise have remained in obscurity.

Robert Gammage, History of the Chartist Movement, 18371854

(2nd edn, Newcastle upon Tyne and London: Browne and Browne, 1894), p.294.

For the few who were the activists, who sacrificed their time and energy and risked livelihood, personal security and family relationships, there was a drama, play-acting, education and challenge and often the enjoyable excitement of living dangerously in the public eye.

Alex Wilson, Chartism, in J.T. Ward, Popular Movements c.18301850

(1970; London: Macmillan, 1978), p.133.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Song of the Seditionist, Punch, 10 June 1848, p.240. [dedication page]

. John Leech depicts the commercial poet, penning lyrics in support of a patent medicine, A Golden Opportunity, Punch, 21 October 1848, p.166. Authors collection. [p.10]

. Map of Wapping area c.1848, based on the map of London by G.F. Cruchley, showing Wapping High Street, Hermitage Stairs, and Hermitage Bridge (above Hermitage Dock) and St Catherines [sic] Dock. [p.20]

. J.M. Whistler, Black Lion Wharf, 1859, reproduced from F. Wedmore, Etching in England (London: G. Bell, 1895). On the left is the five-storied Hoares Wharf. By courtesy of the University of Plymouth. [p.22]

. Detail of J.M. Whistler, Thames Warehouses, 1859, reproduced from W.C. Brownell, Whistler in Painting and Etching, Scribners Monthly 18:4 (August 1879), pp.481495 (p.488). Authors collection. [p.25]

. J.M. Whistler, Thames Police, or Wapping Wharf, 1859, reproduced from J. Pennell, Etchers and etchings: chapters in the history of the art together with technical explanations of modern artistic methods (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925). By courtesy of the University of Plymouth. [p.25]

. Facsimile of the title page of the first edition of Flowers and Fruits, based on the copy in the New York Public Library. The authors copy lacks this page. [p.34]

. The opening page of Edward Noble or the Utopian, in the first edition of Flowers and Fruits, p.25, from a copy in the authors collection. [p.38]

. A comic almanacs depiction of the bearded foreigner, April, c.1843. University of Plymouth Special Collections, by courtesy of the University of Plymouth. [p.41]

. Stipple engraving of James Pierrepont Greaves, also reproduced in Letters and Extracts from the MS Writings of James Pierrepont Greaves (2 vols, 18435), vol.1. Authors collection. [p.45]

. FATHER MATHEW An-ice man for a small party, by George Cruikshank. Comic Almanack, London, Bogue, 1844, plate 9. Father Mathew as a water pump declares, in response to home brewed ale and home made wine, Touch not! Taste not if you must take any thing take the Pledge! By courtesy of Plymouth University. [p.47]

. Facsimile of John Adolphus Etzlers signature, from the register of his marriage in 1844: believed to be the only extant autograph. [p.58]

. Conrad Friedrich Stollmeyer, by M.J. Cazabon, c.1850. By courtesy of the Stollmeyer family and Geoffrey MacLean. [p.61]

. Etzlers Satellite, based on the illustration from The Artizan, October 1845, p.207. The travelling machine used a rotary digger actuated by an endless rope from a stationary engine. [p.69]

. Etzlers Naval Automaton, based on the illustration from Cleaves Penny Gazette, 19 August 1843. A is the hull; B the platform; C.C. connecting poles from the platform to the machinery on the vessels deck; D.D. the arms; E.E. the ratchet poles; F the ratchet wheels; and G the paddle wheels. [p.73]

. William Thom, taken from life, Illustrated London News, 1 March 1845, p.144. Authors collection. [p.80]

. The Reverend John Goodwyn Barmby. By courtesy of John Goodchild. [p.87]

. Richard Doyle, The Seven Ages of the Republic, Punch, 25 November 1848, p.224: Lamartine inditing a sonnet to Libertys eyebrow. Authors collection. [p.108]

. A Scourge for a Gag. Goldsmiths Library of Economic History, [G.L.] Broadsides Collection, 616 (1), vol.VI. Senate House Library, University of London. [p.115]

. John Leechs comment on the Trafalgar Square Revolution in Punch, 10 April 1848, p.112. By courtesy of Plymouth University. [p.121]

. The Meeting on Kennington Common from a Daguerrotype, Illustrated London News, 15 April 1848, p.242. Authors collection. [p.123]

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