One of the Damned: The life and time of Robert Tressel
Author: F.C. Ball
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart   Published: April 2005
ISBN:   PB 1 90500 712 4
Subject: Biography
  • This biography of Tressell, first published in 1973, tells the story of a man about whom virtually nothing – not even his real name – was known before Fred Ball began his research.

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    List of Contents
     
    Bookmarks Contents
     
    1 Who was Robert Tressell?
     
    2 Who was Robert Tressell
     
    3 Emigration and marriage
     
    4 Sad South Africa and the Boer War
     
    5 Mugsborough, England
     
    6 The dignity of labour, as the man said
     
    7 Robert at home
     
    8 Work, boys, work, and be contented
     
    9 Artist and artisan
     
    10 Linguist and model- builder
     
    11 Bread and circuses, 1906
     
    12 The rise of the Labour Movement
     
    13 Robert joins in
     
    14 Democracy Ltd
     
    15 Raw material for a book
     
    16 A new home
     
    17 Work with the local socialists
     
    18 Danger: men at work
     
    19 Political music- hall: the 1908 by- election
     
    20 Recreations
     
    21 The writer
     
    22 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
     
    23 Give us this day
     
    24 A pauper's death
     
    25 Kathleen and the manuscript
     
    26 Publication and reactions
     
    27 1914- 18: the book dies and is born again
     
    28 Editions and abridgements
     
    29 1946: Tressell's handwritten manuscript is found
     
    30 How the original manuscript was butchered
     
    31 The manuscript and the building trades unions
     
    32 Publication in full, foreign editions and translations
     
    33 How the mutilated manuscript was reconstituted
     
    34 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on stage
     
    35 A dramatic development and a new search
     
    36 The adventures of the manuscript
     
    37 Still alive?
     
    38 1962: a return from the dead
     
    39 Family secrets
     
    40 The painter
     
    41 A grass plot, a jamjar and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
     
    List of authors quoted
     
    Appendix
     
    Index