Minor Victorian Poets and Authors.

ACKWORTH, JOHN (1854-1917)
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)
HOVELL, MARK (1888-1916)
HULL, GEORGE (1863-1933)

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 . . ."

GERALD MASSEY
ca. 1886.

INGELOW, JEAN (1820-97)
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)
SMILES, SAMUEL (1812-1904)
SKIPSEY, JOSEPH (1832-1903)
WAUGH, EDWIN (1817-1890)

"The Songs of the People are voices of power."

PUBLISHED BOOKS LIST ――――♦――――
"ACKWORTH, JOHN" (The Rev. FREDERICK R. SMITH)	*Clog Shop Chronicles* *Beckside Lights* *The Scowcroft Critics* *Doxie Dent* *The Making of the Million. Tales of the Twentieth Century Fund* *The Minder ― The Story Of The Courtship, Call And Conflicts Of John* *Ledger, Minder And Minister* *The Coming of the Preachers. A Tale of the Rise of Methodism* *The Mangle House: a Lancashire Tale* *From Crooked Roots* *Old Wenyon's Will* *The Partners* Life's Working Creed—a series of sermons on the present-day meaning of the Epistle of St. James.
ADAMS, WILLIAM EDWIN	Memoirs of a Social Atom (autobiography) 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 (autobiography) 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 (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
CRAIG, ISA (MRS. ISA CRAIG-KNOX)	Poems by Isa The Duchess Agnes and other poems *Songs of Consolation* An Offering to Lancashire (1863) — edited by Isa Craig Esther West *Tales on The Parables* Fanny's Fortune Peggy Oglivie's Inheritance *Deepdale Vicarage (now thought to be by Mary and Elizabeth Kirby)* "*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 (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
HOOD, THOMAS	The Poetic Works of Thomas Hood The Comic Annual (1834 edition) Sheet music
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* *The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems of Love and Childhood* *Poems of the Old Days and the New* *The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow* *Studies for Stories* *Stories Told to a Child* *A Sister's Bye-Hours* *Mopsa the Fair.* *Wonderbox Tales* *Off the Skelligs* *Fated to be Free* *Sarah de Berenger* *Don John* *John Jerome - his thoughts and ways* Sheet music Sheet music ('O Fair Dove! O Fond Dove!' set by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
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 Cabinet Newspaper* : edition for 27 August, 1859. The Death and Posthumous Life of Ernest Jones (by Antony Taylor)
LAYCOCK, SAMUEL	Warblin's of an Owd Songster Lancashire Kesmus Singin' Fifty Year Sin' Broadsheets
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*
LOVETT, WILLIAM	*Life and Struggles of William Lovett* (autobiography) *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 (2nd edition, 2009) *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
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* Family Fortunes. A Domestic Story A Real Lady *At Any Cost* *Rab Bethune's Double* *Short stories & essays* *Poems* (a miscellany collected from magazines of the period).
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
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 Sheet music
SMILES, SAMUEL	*James Brindley and the Early Engineers.* Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie. Lives of the Engineers: Boulton and Watt. Lives of the Engineers: Metcalfe—Telford (History of Roads) The Life of George Stephenson and of his son Robert Stephenson *Brief Biographies*
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 Lancashire Songs (sheet music) *Poems and Songs* *Poems and Songs (2nd series)* *Besom Ben Stories* *"Tufts of Heather", Volume I.; Volume II.* *The Chimney Corner* The Limping Pilgrim *Lancashire Sketches*—Vol. I. *Lancashire Sketches*—Vol. 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* Sheet music — "Lancashire Songs" by Edwin Waugh (settings various) Sheet music — "Twenty Songs by Edwin Waugh" (settings by C. E. Rowley) Sheet music — "Dialect Songs of the North" (settings various) 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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University of Pennsylvania Libraries ― Online Books.	TRING SCHOOL: GERALD MASSEY POETRY COMPETITION.	Internet Text Archive.
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