Collected Writings of Edward Rushton - (1756-1814)

The first modern edition of the writings of a staunch radical poet from the romantic period, based in Liverpool.

About the author

Edward Rushton (1756-1814) was a poet, writer, bookseller and abolitionist. After losing his own vision, he opened a school for the blind, the oldest continuous such school in the world.

Paul Baines is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Rushton
• Assisted by: Paul Baines (Editor), Paul (Department of English Baines (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2014
• EAN: 9781781381366
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-136-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918