A. Plummer. Bronterre: A Political Biography of Bronterre O’Brien, 1804-1864.

CONTENTS

Preface

I – Bronterre’s Beginnings

II – A Recruit for the Radicals

III – Unstamped Defiance

IV – Revolution in Retrospect

V – Prelude to 1839

VI – Sharp Arguments

VII – Benbow’s Bantling

VIII – Counter-attack

IX – Beckoning Mirage

X – A Centre in Soho

XI – The Wane of Life

XII – Appraisal

Appendices

A – Thomas A. Devyr on the Newport Rising and the Projected Rising in the Newcastle District

B – Bronterre O’Brien’s Address to the Electors and Non-electors of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, written in H.M. Prison, Lancaster Castle, in June 1841

C – Some Notes on Twelve of Bronterre O’Brien’s Friends and Disciples

D – The National Reform League, the Eclectic Institute and the Working Man.