Title: The life and literary pursuits of Allen Davenport
First published: 1986
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.
Subjects: Sources, Chartism, Working class, Biography, History, Social conditions, Land reform, United States, History: American, Davenport, Allen, Great Britain, Working class, great britain, Great britain, biography
Places: United States, Great Britain
People: Allen Davenport
Time periods: 1865-1918