The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme

Item author: Thomas Cooper
Item date: 1847
Grant Value: Presented
Item date acquired: 1973
Item institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

A remarkable literary document of the Chartist Movement, written in Stafford Jail where Cooper was imprisoned on charges arising out of the riots of 1842. This is the second editionl issued in penny parts. Presented by John Ehrman