Ernest Charles Jones

Ernest Charles Jones ( born January 25, 1819 in Berlin, Duchy of Holstein, † January 26, 1869 in Manchester ) was an English novelist, poet and lawyer who was active politically in the Chartist movement. The Chartists were a socio-political movement in England in the first half of the 19th century. In its final phase after 1848, Jones was one of their leaders.

Life

Ernest Jones has been in Holstein village Berlin (now hamlet in the municipality Seedorf, Segeberg ), born as the son of Major Charles Gustavus Jones and Charlotte Matilda Jones, who managed an estate there. One of his godfather was the future King Ernst August of Hanover. He attended the Michaelis School in Lüneburg. In 1838 he moved with his family to England. In 1836 he became a full servant of the " English Court". 1844 member of the Bar Inner Temple.

In 1846 he joined the League of the Just and the German Workers' Educational Society in London. In 1850 he was elected along with his friend George Julian Harney in the executive branch of the National Charter Association.

Jones was arrested in 1848 after a political speech, and came in 1850 released from prison. Both he and Harney were personally acquainted with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and they kept contact with each other. Marx and Engels commented on the development of the Chartist movement and the work of Jones and Harney in letters and articles. Under Jones and Harney the Chartist movement was an increasingly socialist orientation, and Jones understood the movement as part of the proletarian, international movement. The actual social significance, however, took from obvious. Chartism movement ended up being the last Chartistenkonvent 1858. Jones was a member of the Manchester section of the International Workingmen's Association. Ernest Jones was buried in the Ardwick Cemetery, Manchester.

As a writer and poet, Jones sat also deals with the issues of political oppression and social injustice. His novels include The Maid of Warsaw and Woman's Wrongs. Some of his poems, such as The Painter of Florence, The Song of the Poor, The Song of the Day - Labourers and The Factory Slave reached a fairly high level of awareness.

Overall, there was a rich, Chartist literature - some poems were set to music and sung songs, a large number of poems and novels appeared in the Chartist newspapers, even in the magazine founded by Jones in 1851 Notes to the People.

Works

  • Infantine effusions. F. H. Nestler, Hamburg 1830 digitized
  • The Wood -Spirit. A Novel. T. W. Boone, London, 1841, Volume 1 Digitalisat
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones ( ed.): The Labourer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Vol 1 Northern Star Office, Manchester 1847 digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones ( ed.): The Labourer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Vol 2 Northern Star Office, Manchester 1847 digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones ( ed.): The Labourer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Nd. 3 Northern Star Office, Manchester 1848 digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones ( ed.): The Labourer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Northern Star Office, Manchester 1848 digitized
  • Edited: Notes to the People. The Champion of Political Justice and Universal Right. London Mai 1851-1858 Digitalisat 1851
  • Co -operation. In: Notes to the People. No. 21 of September 20, 1851
  • Three to One. In: Notes to the People. No. 26 of September 25, 1851
  • What Is Kossuth? In: Notes to the People. No 31, November 29, 1851
  • Declaration against Karl Heinzen. Translated by Jenny Marx. London March 3, 1852.
  • The Coming Crisis and why It Is Coming. In: Notes to the People. No. 16 of August 21, 1852
  • The Storm 's First Thunder. In: Notes to the People. No 42 of February 19, 1853
  • A Phamphlet on the "Revelations Concerning the Trial of the Communists at Cololone ". In: Notes to the People. No 47 of March 26, 1853
  • Secret Intrigue of Russian Tools, and Scandalous Doings of "Our " Cabinet in the East. In: Notes to the People. No. 86 dated December 24, 1853
  • Discoveries Made Too Late. In: Notes to the People. No 130 of October 28, 1854
  • The Maid of Warsaw, or the Tyrant Czar: a tale of the load- Polish Insurrection. London 1854
  • Woman's Wrongs. A series of tales. London 1855
  • Evenings with the People. The Francise and Taxtion to adress. London 1856 digitized
  • Evenings with the people. The unemployed. London 1857
  • The revolut of Hindostan; or the new world. A. poem. Wilson, London 1857
  • Corayda. A Tale of Faith and Chibalry, and other poems. W. Kent & Co., London 1860 digitized
  • Communist Party of Great Britain History Group Corporation ( Ed.): Diary of Ernest Jones 1839-47. Hammersmith, London, 1961 ( Our history 21)
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