1st Edition

The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport

By Malcolm Chase Copyright 1994
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1994, this volume features an autobiography of Allen Davenport, a key figure linking Chartism with the French Revolution, along with some of his selected works. Davenport 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... Read more

1. The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport. 2. Editorial Afterword. 3. A Further Selection from the Works of Allen Davenport.

Biography

Malcolm Chase has published widely on agrarian radicalism and related topics; he is the author of The People's Farm: English Radical Agrarianism, 1775-1840, OUP, 1988.

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