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Title: The Manchester Man ... Illustrations, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Varley; 1896. ix. 480 p.; 4 . 12623.g.35. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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A delightful book, albeit weakened by a slightly rushed conclusion, about the rise of the 'Manchester man' and the history of the city. Part Dickensian metaphor and social commentary, part Victorian romance, Mrs Banks wrote of early industrial Manchester in 1874 (serialised for Cassell's Monthly Magazine and published two years later). A baby is plucked from the flood waters of the River Irk by a poor tanner, and taken home to be raised by his young daughter. Given every opportunity in life - a scholarship to a Blue Coat school (now Chetham's School of Music), an apprenticeship with a local tradesman, marriage to a gentleman's daughter - Jabez Clegg, as he is named by the delightfully wilful and cantankerous vicar, embodies the spirit of the Manchester man - integrity, strength, forthrightness, determination and the ambition to earn for himself what others are born into. He falls in love with a girl 'above his station', and is bullied by the spoiled son of his sponsor, but Jabez's character ultimately wins him success and happiness. The message is rather heavy-handed, but the story enjoyable for all the social and historical instruction.
This forgotten novel, reprinted from a later edition containing illustrations by Charles Green and Hedley Fitton, should be more widely known, and even taught in schools! Banks manages to combine a potted history of nineteenth century Manchester, covering the Peterloo massacre and other local events and celebrities of the time, with an adventurous and engrossing bildungsroman, only rushing headlong into melodrama towards the close (a whole slew of coincidences and disasters serve to remove unwelcome and unfortunate obstacles between Jabez and his reward for persevering!)
Very much of its time, but none the less readable for that, and full of funny and sympathetic characters (bar the villain of the piece, of course!) ( )