Poetical Works Of Thomas Cooper; Including The Purgatory Of Suicides And The Paradise Of Martyrs

COOPER, Thomas

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1877

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First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscribed to Miss Mary Male. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth with gilt titles and borders Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and chipped spine ends. Rubbed cloth. Light surface cracking to endpapers with hinges remaining very firm. Inscription to title page. Lightly toned unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xi, 463. Size: 8vo 20cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: INSCRIPTION: Miss Mary Male. AUTHOR: Thomas Cooper (1805-1892) English poet and a leading Chartist Worked as a shoemaker, preacher, schoolmaster and a journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840 He was seen as a passionate, determined and fiery man His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides (1845) runs to 944 stanzas He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts He edited "The Kentish Mercury" then joined the Leicestershire Mercury in 1840 and moved to Leicester Leicester under his leadership became a Chartist stronghold, with its own journals, such as the Commonwealthman He became a leader and lecturer among them and in 1842 was imprisoned in Stafford for two years after riots in the Staffordshire Potteries, where he wrote his Purgatory of Suicides, a political epic However, Cooper abandoned full-time radicalism on his release Although he had abandoned his religious beliefs at the time of his imprisonment, Coopers next 30 years were spent as a lecturer in defence of Christianity, attacking the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel He authored Evolution, The Stone Book, and The Mosaic Record of Creation (1878), which argued for creationism and rejected evolution His autobiography (1872) is seen as a minor Victorian classic.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poetical Works Of Thomas Cooper; Including The Purgatory Of Suicides And The Paradise Of Martyrs
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 1877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ
• Signed: Inscribed and Signed by Author