communitarian socialist and literary author; wrote Jest and Earnest, and Sequential System of Musical Notation (6th edn, 1873); contributed to the communitarian journal, The Union; regarded phrenology as a part of a progressive philosophy.
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
690.1
— 690.1 *[under the pseudonym Arthur Wallbridge], Torrington Hall: being an account of Two Days, in the Autumn of the Year 1844, passed at that Magnificent and Philosophically Conducted Establishment for the Insane. London: Jeremiah How, 1845. Pp. 135. (Model asylum in a fictional utopia; "Dr Elstree" "a former republican but now just a Christian Socialist Phrenologist, believing that society must be changed before politics" might have been based on DAVEY. Owenite socialist in its view of the outside world as insane in the absence of a "rational social system.")
Editorial Information
Identifier
690.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
218
Printed page
213
Database ID
2046
Original Transcription
690. LUNN, William A. B., communitarian socialist and literary author; wrote Jest and Earnest, and Sequential System of Musical Notation (6th edn, 1873); contributed to the communitarian journal, The
Union; regarded phrenology as a part of a progressive philosophy.