Talk:George W. M. Reynolds

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I started to create this article and ... got distracted because there was no Category for 'Chartists.' I apologize for not getting back to it sooner-- some of the other articles related to Chartists were also in need of some generic cleanup. --Matthew 18:22, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm an enthusiast of Reynolds' work, but a novice to Wikipedia. I have added some relevant information to this article after reading the Wikipedia guidelines and FAQ, but if anything I have added is not correctly formatted or not appropriate, please let me know so that I may amend it and learn for the future. Thanks! CarolineWalters 21:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Caroline: you have done a great job here. As we add more information we will want headings, but right now everything looks really good.

We just need to gather original sources about his life, etc., and add citations. Unfortunately if you have tried to find information about GWMR you know it isn't easy to come by. I have seen various short biographical sketches which have no citations at all. I have not been able to find any that cite to sources (even though they all seem to agree on most things). I find it particularly humorous that depending on where you are reading, he inherits money from his mother or his father at someone's death (the sketches never agree on who from or which parent died) and there are conflicting amounts of money, too. From there the accounts and explanations of his life go downhill into total confusion-- nobody can agree about his purpose, his importance, or his style. Matthew 12:17, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

List of other works by Reynolds
I was looking at a book on project Gutenberg and stumbled across one of those list of works by author pages for GWM Reynolds... if anyone knows any of these (if they happen to be alternate titles of books we already have listed, etc.) please add them. Ernest Linwood by Caroline Hentz. --Matthew K 02:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Rose Foster
 * Caroline of Brunswick
 * Venetia Trelawney
 * Lord Saxondale
 * Count Christoval
 * Eustace Quentin
 * Banker's Daughter
 * The Necromancer
 * The Opera Dancer
 * Child of Waterloo
 * Robert Bruce
 * The Gipsy Chief
 * Wallace, Hero of Scotland
 * Isabella Vincent
 * Vivian Bertram
 * Countess of Lascelles
 * Duke of Marchmont
 * Agnes Evelyn (is this Agnes; or, Beauty and Pleasure (1854-5))
 * Parricide
 * Life in Paris
 * Countess and the Page
 * Edgar Montrose
 * The Ruined Gamester
 * Clifford and the Actress
 * Queen Joanna; or the Mysteries of the Court of Naples
 * Ciprina; or, the Secrets of a Picture Gallery (this is mentioned in the body of the text)

The Library online reference
The Library 1973 s5-XXVIII(4):319-326; George W. M. Reynolds: A Bibliography is unfortunately a paid-access only item. It is probably not accessible to the majority of the users of wikipedia. If anyone disagrees, please make a suggestion about how to add this content. Inasmuch as it is a list of works, it could be copied into wikipedia without copyright violations so perhaps someone could create Works by George W. M. Reynolds and populate it with the content? We could then add/remove as we discovered corrections and changes. --Matthew K (talk) 16:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I realized that adding it as a source/reference without a link makes perfect sence. --Matthew K (talk) 01:05, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Reynolds' politics and political events ( especially 1848 )
I just dropped by yesterday to find the date of Reynolds' Trafalgar Square speech praising the French Revolution of 1848 which resulted in the police attacking the crowd which led to the rioting and the rushing through of the Treason Felony Act 1848 etc which provoked the attempted insurrections in August 1848 : I am not equipped to research this, but understanding Reynolds response to events and his overall political opinions is important to understanding his literary works - so I am putting down this note here for others to consider what may be missing from this account - X !!!

http://www.chartists.net/insurrection/trafalgar-square-riots-1848/

" ... A planned protest against the then relatively novel idea of income tax had been called by Charles Cochrane for Monday 6 March. Under pressure from the police, however, he reluctantly withdrew and made efforts to cancel the open air meeting. London ‘s workers were having none of it, and a crowd estimated at 10,000 strong gathered anyway, with the Chartist activist GWM Reynolds in the chair. Though observers later commented that barely a man in the crowd would have been liable to pay income tax, the meeting duly condemned it, congratulated the French people on their efforts to overthrow their government, and made clear their support for the People’s Charter. ... At first all went peacefully. But according to the admittedly partisan Northern Star, just as the crowd began to dissolve “some sleek well-fed man asserted that the people assembled were lazy and would not work”. In the uproar which followed, the police moved in with truncheons flying and a riot ensued. ... "

[ A suitable BOOK ] G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-century Fiction, Politics, and the Press - edited by Anne Humpherys, Louis James

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bQA3Fy7gWpMC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=reynolds+trafalgar+square+1848&source=bl&ots=SmkWT8LBCq&sig=LDrgtGJTi1-YOHK-TIV_uBdj9pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhyKm3q63LAhUDSJoKHa-sBW4Q6AEINTAD#v=onepage&q=reynolds%20trafalgar%20square%201848&f=false DaiSaw (talk) 00:45, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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