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Title
A name given to the resource
The "Sun Inn" Group
Description
An account of the resource
Also known as the Manchester group, this was the most high-profile and prolific English city group in the nineteenth century. The "Sun Inn" group (named after the Manchester pub where they met) went on to launch the Lancashire Authors Association and contributed to an anthology, The Festive Wreath (1842), edited by John Bolton Rogerson, which included contributions by John Critchley Prince, Isabella Varley, George Richardson, Robert Story, Robert Rose ("the Bard of Colour"), Elijah Ridings, William Gaspey, Richard Wright Proctor, John Mills, Thomas Arkell Tidmarsh, John Scholes and Eliza Battye. It included Alexander Wilson’s poem "The Poet’s Corner" (first printed as a broadside, also printed in Maidment, 163-6), which was sung at the second meeting of the Lancashire Poetical Soiree and refers to 28 local poets and supporters (their names are annotated by hand by Isabella Varley on a copy reproduced by Maidment). Ben Brierley’s Journal regularly published verse by other Mancunian labouring-class poets, most notably Fanny Forrester.
LC Poet
First Name
Samuel
Last Name
Bamford
Authority Name
Samuel Bamford
Active Decades
1810
1830
1840
1850
1860
Birth Date
1788
Death Date
1872
Gender
male
Nationality
English
Industry
weaving
Occupation
weaver
Birthplace
Middleton, Lancashire
Place of Publication
Manchester
London
Biography
Radical weaver, member of the "Sun Inn" group of Manchester poets.
Published Poetry Collections
<p><em>The Weaver Boy; or Miscellaneous Poetry</em> (Manchester 1819)</p>
<p><em>Hours in the Bowers. Poems</em> (Manchester, 1834)</p>
<p><em>Homely rhymes, poems and reminiscences</em> (1843, rev. and enlarged edn London and Manchester, 1864)</p>
Anthology Appearances
<p><a title="archive.org" href="http://archive.org/details/balladssongsofla00harluoft" target="_blank">Harland, John, <em>Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (Part 2, Modern)</em>, corrected, revised and enlarged by T.T. Wilkinson (East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing limited, 1976), facsimile edition based on the third edition of 1882</a>, 220-8, 289-91, 353-5, 411-13, 479-80, 485-8</p>
<p>Hollingworth, Brian (ed), <em>Songs of the People: Lancashire Dialect Poetry of the Industrial Revolution</em> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977), 151</p>
Non-Poetical Publications
<p><em>Passages in the Life of a Radical</em> (1860), two vols</p>
<p><em>Account of the Arrest and Imprisonment of Samuel Bamford </em>(1817)</p>
<p><em>Walks in South Lancashire </em>(1844)</p>
<p><em>Tawk o'seawth Lankeshur (</em>1850)</p>
ODNB
"<a title="Samuel Bamford" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1256?docPos=2" target="_blank">Samuel Bamford</a>," by Peter Spence
Correspondents
Sun Inn group
Secondary Sources
<p>Johnson, C.R., <em>Provincial Poetry 1789-1839: British Verse Printed in the Provinces: The Romantic Background</em> (London: Jed Press, 1992), item 46</p>
<p>Maidment, Brian (ed), <em>The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain</em> (Manchester: Carcanet, 1987), 232-42</p>
<p><em>Nineteenth-Century Short-title Catalogue </em>(NCSTC)</p>
<p>Reilly, Catherine W., <em>Mid-Victorian poetry, 1860-1879: an annotated biobibliography</em> (London: Mansell, 2000), 27</p>
<p>Sutton, David C. (ed), <em>Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries </em>(London: The British Library, 1995), 36 </p>
<p>Vicinus, Martha, "Literary Voices of an Industrial Town: Manchester, 1810-70," in <em>The Victorian City: Images and Realities</em>, ed. by H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), 739-61, 741</p>
<p>Vicinus, Martha, <em>The Industrial Muse: Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Literature</em> (Croom Helm, 1974), 149</p>
<p>Zlotnick, Susan, <em>Woman, Writing and the Industrial Revolution</em> (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 179-80</p>
Pickering and Chatto Volumes
LC 5 (123-38)
Manuscript Information
<ul><li>British Library, Department of Manuscripts (London)
<ul><li>Letter, as a sponsor, to the Royal Literary Fund, 1848 (In Loan no.96)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>John Rylands University Library of Manchester
<ul><li>A glossary of some words and phrases in use amongst the rural population of South Lancashire, 1843-52. With a letter from Edwin Waugh to his father-in-law John Butterworth (MS.969)</li>
<li>Letter, tipped into a printed book, 1841. (In R129643)</li>
<li>Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, 1849 (English MS.730/4)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Manchester Central Library
<ul><li>7 letters, all or some of them to John Harland, 1840-66. With an autograph poem, “Farewell to my cottage,” 2 pages, 1857 (In Harland I & II)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh)
<ul><li>Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 1849 (MS.1796, f.72)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Trinity College (Cambridge) Library
<ul><li>Letters, 1 to Lord Houghton, the others to Francis Place, 1841-59. With press cuttings and a printed leaflet (Houghton 2<sup>15-21</sup>)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>University of Edinburgh Library
<ul><li>Letter, 1851 (La.II.649/17)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>University of Liverpool Library
<ul><li>Letter, 1849 (Rathbone Papers XXI.14.18(1)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>University of Reading Library
<ul><li>Letter to the “Manchester Examiner,” 18-- (Longman Archive II, 71/1/108)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
Dublin Core
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Title
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Samuel Bamford
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2013-05-24
1810
1830
1840
1850
1860
English
male
weaving