The Manchester Man - Softcover

Banks, Mrs. G.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899181806 ISBN 13: 9781899181803

Publisher: Memories, 1999

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Manchester Man

In 1799 that line was almost unbroken, from the College (where it commenced at Hunt's Bank Bridge) to Red Bank. The little alley by the Town Mill, called Mill-brow, which led down to the wooden Mill Bridge, was little more of a gap than those narrow entries or passages which pierced the walls like slits here and there, and offered dark and perilous passage to courts and alleys, trending in steep incline to the very bed of the Irk. The houses themselves had been good originally, and were thus cramped together for defence in perilous times, when experience taught that a narrow gorge was easier held against warlike odds than an open roadway.

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Mrs George Linnaeus Banks, nee Isabella Varley, was born in her parent’s shop on Oldham Street, in the centre of Manchester, on the 25th March 1821. Her father, James Varley, was a pharmacist and along with his wife, Amelia, took an active part in politics in the period before Manchester had any parliamentary representation. He subsequently served as a town councillor, alderman and magistrate. Isabella was brought up on tales of the town’s struggles around the fireside of an evening, and her relatives had first-hand knowledge of the infamous Peterloo Massacre which had taken place within half a mile of her home, less than two years before her birth. Such tales fuelled her interest in Manchester’s history and her work as a writer. She published her first set of poems in 1844 under the title of “Ivy Leaves,” although an early poem, “A Dying Girl to Her Mother,” had been published when she was sixteen years of age by the Manchester Guardian. She authored a number of books, including “Bond Slaves – A Story of Struggle,” dealing with the Luddite movement, although “The Manchester Man,” is her best known novel. Malc Cowle, Manchester 2012

Synopsis

This classic story follows the life of Jabez Clegg. From the near tragic snatch of his crib from the River Irk this tale of romance and melodrama charts his life from apprentice to master and from poverty to wealth in a busy commercial Manchester'

Edition details

• Publisher: Memories
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899181806
• ISBN 13: 9781899181803
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Green Charles W., Fitton Hedley
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Hayes Cliff