Molly's Progress
Research for Molly Bowes took me in all kinds of unexpected directions. I set out to tell the story of nineteenth-century Gibside and the Bowes Museum through the adventures of one of the children born to Stoney Bowes in debtors' prison. But it grew like Topsy, taking Molly from the Peterloo Massacre to Crowley's Crew, Joseph Cowen and Tyneside radicalism, to Garibaldi and European political plots! Much of the story draws on the amazing and fascinating international connections of the area where I live.
Below is a series of links and references to books I used in the research. The order in which they appear is dictated by Molly's story.
London 1797 - 1815
Stoney Bowes in Prison - an account by Jesse Foot.
Williams, Kate. England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton. Arrow Books. 2006.
Thomas Bewick
'With Bewick on my knee, then I was happy.' Jane Eyre and Molly both love Bewick!
Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds
Uglow, Jenny. Nature's Engraver. Faber. 2006
Manchester and the Peterloo Massacre
Belchem, John. Manchester, Peterloo and the Radical Challenge
Reid, Robert. The Peterloo Massacre.
The Peterloo Memorial Campaign
Location of St Peter's Fields.
The Quakers
Craven, Ann. Elizabeth Spence Watson. N923/8j. Lit & Phil - Librarian’s Room
Holton, S.Stanley. Quaker Women 1780-1930. Lit & Phil - 289.6/25
Raitrick, Arthur. Two centuries of Industrial Welfare. London Quaker Lead Company. 1692-1905. Lit & Phil James Knott Local N622/3
Lloyd, Humphrey. The Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution. Lit & Phil - 929.2/85
Sansbury, Ruth. Beyond the Blew Stone: 300 Years of Quakers in Newcastle. 1998.
Stanhope and the Lead Routes
Dukesfield Smelters and Carriers Project
Forbes, Ian. Images of Industry.
Shotley Bridge and Sword-making
Booklet: Shotley Bridge History by the Shotley Bridge Village Trust, 2016. £3.
Shotley Bridge German Swordmakers
Film of rapper dancing in Winlaton in 1928
Derwentcote and the Iron & Steel-makers
Ironmasters of the Derwent Valley
Marrs, Hylton. Gibraltar to the Tyne. 2007
Gibside and Streatlam
Faulkner, Thomas (ed) Northern Landscapes: representations and realities of north-east England. Boydell Press 2010
Wills, Margaret. Gibside and the Bowes family. The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1995
Moore, Wendy. Wedlock. Orion Books. 2009
Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess. Constable. 1993
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 2006.
The Delaval Family of Seaton Delaval
Green, Martin. The Delavals: a family history. Powdene Publicity Ltd
Askham, Francis. The Gay Delavals. Jonathan Cape. 1955
Powell, Roger. Royal Sex. Amberley. 2013
Gould, Elspeth. Delaval Delvings - the writings of the volunteer research group
Delaval Papers. Lit & Phil N929/24a
Newcastle in the Early Nineteenth Century
Oliver, Thomas. New Picture of Newcastle Upon Tyne. 1831
Grundy, John. History of Newcastle. Tyne Bridge Publishing. 2016
The Transformation of Newcastle by Grainger and Dobson
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne
Parish, Charles. The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne: The Building and development of its Library 1793-1986. 1987.
Watson, Robert Spence. The History of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (1793-1896) Walter Scott Ltd. 1897.
Art in C19th Newcastle
The Northumberland Institution for the Promotion of Fine Arts
Usherwood, Paul. Art for Newcastle: Thomas Miles Richardson and the Newcastle Exhibitions 1822-1843. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums. 1984
Laing Art Gallery. Pre-Raphaelite Painters and Patrons in the North East. Tyne & Wear Museums Service. 1989.
Elzea, Betty. Frederick Sandys: A Catalogue Raisonne. Antique Collectors'Club. 2001
Trevelyan, Raleigh. A Pre-Raphaelite Circle. Chatto & Windus. 1878.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books. 1985.
Thomas Sword Good Bowes, Edwin. In A Strong Light.
Winlaton, Swalwell and Crowley’s Crew - Tyneside Chartism
Flinn, M.W. Men of Iron: The Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry. Edinburgh University Press. 1962
Neave, Nick and Lynn, Susan. Blaydon and Winlaton Through Time. Amberley Publishing. 2012
Winlaton and District Local History Society. A History of Blaydon. Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. 1975.
A British Revolution in C19th?
Films about Winlaton's Industrial Past by Digital Voice
Blaydon, Joseph Cowen and the European connection
Winlaton and District Local History Society. A History of Blaydon. Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. 1975.
Allen, Joan. Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside 1829-1900 Merlin Press. 2007.
Todd, Nigel. The Militant Democracy: Joseph Cowen and Victorian Radicalism. Bewick Press. 1991.
Jones, Evan Rowland. The Life and Speeches of Joseph Cowen, MP. Sampson Low. 1885
Cadogan, Peter. Early Radical Tyneside. Sagittarius Press of Consett. 1975.
The Life and Speeches of Joseph Cowen M.P. by E.R.Jones
An Archaeological Survey of Blaydon Burn
Journal of the North East Labour History Society
The History of the Dickie Bird Society A column in Joseph Cowen's Illustrated Chronicle to encourage children to be kind.
John Bowes, Paris and the Bowes Museum
Chapman, Caroline. John & Josephine: the Creation of the Bowes Museum. The Bowes Museum (2010)
Hardy, Charles. John Bowes and the Bowes Museum. Friends of the Bowes Museum. (1989)
Mackenzie, E. & Ross, M. An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham. (Newcastle, 1834) I, 195.
The Silver Swan - click here to watch a video