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About Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper was an English poet and a leading Chartist. His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts. He was self-educated and worked as a shoemaker, then a preacher, a schoolmaster and a journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840. He was seen as a passionate, determined and fiery man.
Everything about Thomas Cooper →- Occupation
- opinion journalist, writer, poet, politician
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 20, 1805, 1805
- Died
- July 15, 1892, 1892