1. Richard Hoggart describes Orwell’s journey as part of a line of “condition of England” books that runs from Cobbett and Carlyle to our time’ (Introduction, in George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (London: Penguin, 1989), pp. v–xii
2. John Whale, Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 147.
3. Kevin Gilmartin, Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 169.
4. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English, 2 vols (London, 1833), vol. 1, p. 112.
5. James Mulvihill, ‘The Medium of Landscape in Cobbett’s Rural Rides’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 33.4 (1993), pp. 825–40