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THE VAGABOND
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THE VAGABOND
A NOVEL
GEORGE WALKER
edited by W.M.Verhoeven
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Contents
Acknowledgements •
Introduction •
A Note on the Text •
The Vagabond •
Notes •
A Note on the Appendices •
Appendix A:Sources and Contexts:The Jacobin Side of the
Revolutionary Debate •
. From David Hume,“An Abstract of a Book Lately
Published,Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature,&c.”
() •
. From John James Rousseau [Jean-Jacques Rousseau],
The Social Contract () •
. From Joseph Priestley,Disquisitions Relating to
Matter and Spirit () •
. From Thomas Paine,Rights of Man,Part One
() •
. From Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights
of Woman () •
. From William Godwin,An Enquiry Concerning Political
Justice,and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
() •
. From Gilbert Imlay,The Emigrants,&c.;or,
The History of an Expatriated Family () •
. Writings on “Pantisocracy” •
i. From Samuel Coleridge,Collected Letters of
Samuel Coleridge •
ii From a letter by Thomas Poole to Mr.Hoskins
() •
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iii Two poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge •
a. “Pantistocracy”() •
b. “On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in
America”() •
. From John Thelwall,“A Warning Voice to the Violent of
All Parties”() •
. From William Godwin,Memoirs of the Author of a
Vindication of the Rights of Woman () •
. From William Godwin,Thoughts occasioned by the perusal
of Dr.Parr’s Spital Sermon () •
Appendix B:Sources and Contexts:The Anti-Jacobin Side of
the Revolutionary Debate •
. From Edmund Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in
France () •
. From Anon.,“Proceedings of the Friends to the Abuse
of the Liberty of the Press”() •
. From William Playfair,Peace with the Jacobins Impossible
() •
. From Peter Porcupine [William Cobbett],Observations on
the Emigration of Dr.Joseph Priestley () •
. From Anon.,Letters on Emigration.By a Gentleman,Lately
Returned from America () •
. From Thomas Robert Malthus,An Essay on the Principle
of Population () •
Appendix C:Contemporary Reviews •
. Analytical Review (February ) •
. From the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
(February ) •
. New London Review (April ) •
. Critical Review (June ) •
. Monthly Magazine ( July ) •
. Monthly Mirror (March ) •
. British Critic (April ) •
. From the British Critic (October ) •
Select Bibliography •
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following publishers for permission to
reproduce sections of text:Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd.,
for extracts from Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the
Principle of Population,edited by E.A.Wrigley and David Souden,
volume of The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus,general editor
E.A.Wrigley and David Souden ( volumes,);from Mary
Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,edited by
Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler,volume of The Works of Mary
Wollstonecraft,general editors Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler (
volumes, ); from volumes and of The Political and
Philosophical Writings of William Godwin,general editor Mark Philp
( volumes,);and from William Godwin,Memoirs of the
Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman,volume of The
Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin, general editor
Mark Philp ( volumes, ); Oxford University Press, for
extracts from volume of The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge,edited by Earl Leslie Griggs ( volumes,–);
Penguin Books,for extracts from Gilbert Imlay,The Emigrants,
edited by W.M.Verhoeven and Amanda Gilroy (); The
Pennsylvania State University Press,for extracts from The Politics
of English Jacobinism:Writings of John Thelwall,edited by Gregory
Claeys ().I would like to thank Mr.Kenneth Garlick for his
permission to reproduce Sir Thomas Lawrence’s drawing of
Godwin and Holcroft at the Old Bailey Treason Trials of ,
and Laura Valentine and the Royal Academy of Arts,London,for
providing me with a photograph copy of the drawing.I am
grateful to the National Portrait Gallery for permission to repro-
duce “Copenhagen House”by James Gillray,and to Matthew
Bailey,Picture Librarian,for arranging it to be photographed.I
would also like to thank the John Carter Brown Library, in
Providence,Rhode Island,for permission to reproduce the fron-
tispiece of the first edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discours
sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes
(Amsterdam,),and the library’s photographic services for
scanning the image for me.
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I am grateful to the following librarians for their kind assis-
tance:Norman Fiering,and the staff of the John Carter Brown
Library,Providence,Rhode Island (with special thanks to Susan
Danforth,Lynne Harrell,Richard Hurley,and Richard Ring);N.
Sue Hanson,Head of Special Collections,Kelvin Smith Library,
Case Western Reserve University,Ohio;John Pollack,of the
Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Van Pelt-Dietrich
Library Center,University of Pennsylvania;A.C.Schuytvlot,assis-
tant curator of Rare Books at the University Library of the
University of Amsterdam. More generally, I would like to
acknowledge the generous help I have received throughout the
project from the staff of the following libraries:the John Hay
Library,Brown University,Providence,Rhode Island;the interli-
brary loans department at the Rockefeller Library, Brown
University, Rhode Island; the British Library; the New York
Public Library;the Huntington Library and Art Collection,San
Marino, California; the Widener and Houghton Libraries,
Harvard University;the Alderman Library,University of Virginia;
the University and Arts libraries of the University of Groningen.
I would like to thank Julia Gaunce,Leonard Conolly,and Barbara
Conolly of Broadview Press for their encouragement and their
help in getting this volume through the press.It was also a great
pleasure to work with Jennifer Bingham,whose congenial profes-
sionalism I very much learned to appreciate during the produc-
tion stage of the project. Many thanks are also due to the
following colleagues and friends,who provided help of various
kinds,especially in tracking down some of Walker’s more obscure
sources and references:Peter Garside,Matthew Grenby,Wessel
Krul,Robert Lawson Peebles,Michael Millman,Mark Pollard,
Peter Potter,Allison Rich,Stephen Shapiro,Len Tennenhouse,
and Nicola Trott.Emma Clery,Phil Cox,Robert Miles,Mary
Peace and other (former) members of the Corvey Project at
Sheffield Hallam University have provided a most congenial and
collegial context for discussing the Romantic-era novel in
general,and the anti-Jacobin novel in particular.I would like to
express my special gratitude to Gerry Wakker,whose meticulous
and expert help with the Greek and Latin sources and citations I
could not have done without;to Richard Sher,for sharing with
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me some of his insights into eighteenth-century printing and
publishing traditions and tricks;to Philip Stewart,for guiding me
through the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau; to Nancy
Armstrong,for giving me the chance to teach The Vagabond at
Brown University;and to Martin Gosman,for generously fund-
ing my many research trips and microfilm needs.I would also like
to acknowledge the other sponsors who made it possible for me
to get my hands dirty on old books, notably the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the John Carter
Brown Library.
Finally, I want to acknowledge a long-standing debt to
Amanda Gilroy,for putting up with George W.and me all this
time,and for much more.
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thomas holcroft and william godwin
at the treason trials at the old bailey,1794.
Sir Thomas Lawrence,P.R.A.(–).Original black and red chalk ⁄" x ".Private
collection.Photo:Royal Academy of Arts,London.Reproduced with permission.