ABSTRACT
Reprinted in An Anthology of Chartist Literature, ed. Y. V. Kovalev (Moscow, 1956), 307–8. The Northern Star, Feargus O’Connor’s organ, published in Leeds, was the most important Chartist newspaper. The previous week, it had belatedly welcomed A Christmas Carol and had seen Dickens as taking his stand ‘by the side of BURNS…: and who could desire a destiny more glorious?… Yes, DICKENS is the poet of the poor…’ (21 December 1844).
