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Thomas Cooper

Thomas Cooper

English poet
Thomas Cooper was an English poet and a leading Chartist. His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides 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... Wikipedia
Born: March 20, 1805, Leicester, United Kingdom
Died: July 15, 1892 (age 87 years), Lincoln, United Kingdom
Literary movement: Chartism
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