Chartist Circular
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Title
Chartist Circular
Description
A Weekly, halfpenny newspaper that had a circulation of 22,500 in its first year. The Circular is an important resource for Scottish Chartism, but also for Chartist fiction and Chartist attitudes towards literature, especially Scottish literature. On January 30, 1841, the editors write, "There ought to be a Radical Literary Reform. The virtues of the masses should be sought out and extolled; the iniquities of the titled honestly exposed and condemned. Every man should be praised and blamed as he merits, and false glory extinguished. All men are equal, distinction is artificial, and the vile press has spread the iniquity."
Creator
Editor: William Thomson
Source
New York: Augustus M Kelley, 1968. Facsimile reprint edition. Google has digitized the reprint and it is available on Google Books as of October, 2017. As of this date, it is also available at the Hathi Trust Digital Library and the British Newspaper Library online.
Publisher
"Published under the superintendence of the Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland."
Date
September 28, 1839 - July 2, 1842
Format
Weekly, halfpenny newspaper; 4 pages.
Coverage
For more on the Circular see
Fraser, W. Hamish. Chartism in Scotland. Pontypool: Merlin Press, 2010.
___. "The Chartist Press in Scotland." Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press. Ed. Joan Allen and Owen R. Ashton. London: Merlin Press, 2005. 82–105.
Collection Items
!["Attention!" Lads- "Will you Enlist"](http://www.chartistfiction.hosting.nyu.edu/files/thumbnails/4020443b5703d32adc251beb6cd4c429.jpg ""Attention!" Lads- "Will you Enlist"")
![The Life of a "Nobleman!"](http://www.chartistfiction.hosting.nyu.edu/files/thumbnails/b314e6d007104b52d1b9239120cbb132.jpg "The Life of a "Nobleman!"")
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