Chartist Fiction - Volume Two

First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities.

In his substantial Introduction, Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones's career as a Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the 'woman question'. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include: the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones's rivalry with George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This title will be of interest to students of history.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Editor’s Introduction; Woman’s Wrongs; The Working Man’s Wife; The Young Milliner; The Tradesman’s Daughter; The Girl with the Red Hands; The Lady of Title

About the author

Ian Haywood

Product details

• Authors: Ian Haywood
• Assisted by: Ian Haywood (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138644656
• ISBN: 978-1-138-64465-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, European History, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Anthologies: general, General and world history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic fiction: general and literary