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The anti-Poor Law agitation had a strange assortment of allies. Prominent among them was Stanhope, who told Oastler that ‘his old friend’ Eldon
never mentions to me the new Poor Law without the utmost indignation and abhorrence.
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C. S. Parker: Sir R. Peel (1891), II, 359–60;
H. Grote: Personal Life of G. Grote (1873), 127.
NS, 9 June, etc.; Holyoake, Stephens, 16; J. Morley: The Life of R. Cobden (1910 ed.), 124;
F. M. Rosenblatt: Chartist Movement in its Social and Economic Aspects (New York, 1916).
A. Prentice: History of the ACLL (1853), I, 73–4, 105–6; cf. McCord, 35–6.
T. Cooper: Life of Thomas Cooper, written by himself (1872), 136.
Correspondence in HO, 52/37; NL, 29 Dec.; Copies of True Bills found against the Rev. J. R. Stephens (Liverpool, 1839); H. Goddard: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (1956 ed.), 154–61; The Times, 1, NL, 5 Jan. 1839.
NS, 19 Jan., seq.; Trevelyan, Bright, 31; Jephson, II, 299–300, 260–1; O’Brien in London Mercury, 25 Dec. 1836, Operative, 30 Dec. 1838, Charter, 17 Feb., NS, 16 Feb. 1839, etc.; cf. Morley, 293; Wallas, 376; D. Walker-Smith: The Protectionist Case in the 1840’s (Oxford, 1933), 80–3.
W. H. Chaloner (ed.): ‘Reminiscences of T. Dunning’ (Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiq. Soc., LIX, 1947);
cf. T. Rothstein: From Chartism to Labourism (1929), 56,
G. D. H. Cole: Chartist Portraits (1941), 75–6,
and F. H. Amphlett Micklewright: ‘J. R. Stephens: A Reassessment’ (London Quarterly & Holborn Rev., CLXVIII, 1, Jan. 1943) for fairer estimates.
M. Hovell: The Chartist Movement (Manchester, 1943 ed.), 175 seq.; Peel, Spen Valley, 313–15; MG, 18 Jan. 1840; Gammage, 282 seq.
R. E. Leader: The Life and Letters of J. A. Roebuck (1897), 117.
R. Lawrence: C. Napier, Friend and Fighter (1952), 89–90.
PP, 1839, XLII, 412–13; Jour. of Statistical Soc. of London, II, 3 (Apr. 1839), 173–81; J. M. Ludlow, L. Jones: Progress of the Working Class, 1832–1867 (1867), 15; PP, 1835, XL, 696.
T. A. Trollope: What I Remember (1887), II, 7–13;
E. Bigland: The Indomitable Mrs. Trollope (1953), 195–6; NS, 2 Mar.
See W. H. Chaloner: ‘Mrs. Trollope and the Early Factory System’ (VS, IV, 2: Dec. 1960), and MG, 12 Apr. 1958.
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Ward, J.T. (1962). Chartism and Reaction. In: The Factory Movement, 1830–1855. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81759-7_8
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