Abstract

Besides the editors of this volume for accommodating this essay (especially Dr Peter Forsaith, who has added several useful references), I am grateful to Rebecca Mon Williams for reading an earlier draft. Without the interlibrary loan support of the Manchester Metropolitan University Library, the printed resources of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and the electronic library of the Manchester Central Library, the research for this essay could not have been completed. I am indebted to them all but of course take responsibility for the end result.