The life and literary pursuits of Allen Davenport
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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.
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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.
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