The life and literary pursuits of Allen Davenport
Subtitle: with a further selection of the author's work
By: compiled and edited by Malcolm Chase.
Contributors: Chase, Malcolm.
Series: The nineteenth century; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Scolar Press; Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Davenport, Allen.; Working class -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Chartism -- History -- Sources.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.