Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the rapidly-expanding city of Birmingham. This book brings to life a cast of 'rough diamonds', people of worth and character, but lacking in manners and education, who improved their towns and themselves.
Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the rapidly-expanding city of Birmingham. This book brings to life a cast of 'rough diamonds', people of worth and character, but lacking in manners and education, who improved their towns and themselves.
Susan Whyman is an independent historian, formerly of Princeton University, where she received both MA and PhD degrees. Whyman lectures and publishes widely, both in England and the US, on British culture. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers, 1660-1800, winner of the 2010 Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars; Sociability and Power: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, nominated for the History Today Prize; and Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716), co-edited with Clare Brant (all published by Oxford University Press).
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* Introduction: An Author, A Desk, and a Notebook * 1: Hutton's Childhood: Finding a Pathway out of Poverty * 2: Rough Diamonds: A New Social Category * 3: Hutton Becomes a Book Seller: Birmingham's Print Culture * 4: Hutton Rises in the World: Attitudes to Land, Trade, Money, and Religion * 5: Hutton Enters Public Office: Political Participation in an Industrial Town * 6: Hutton as an Author: 'The Pleasure of Writing is Inconceivable' * 7: Hutton and the Priestley Riots: Writing to Defend a Life * Appendices
* Introduction: An Author, A Desk, and a Notebook * 1: Hutton's Childhood: Finding a Pathway out of Poverty * 2: Rough Diamonds: A New Social Category * 3: Hutton Becomes a Book Seller: Birmingham's Print Culture * 4: Hutton Rises in the World: Attitudes to Land, Trade, Money, and Religion * 5: Hutton Enters Public Office: Political Participation in an Industrial Town * 6: Hutton as an Author: 'The Pleasure of Writing is Inconceivable' * 7: Hutton and the Priestley Riots: Writing to Defend a Life * Appendices
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