International Vegetarian Union (IVU)
	History of Vegetarianism - England: early 19th Century

Lord (Thomas) Erskine (1750-1823) Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835) Joseph Ritson (1761-1803) John Abernethy M.D. 1763-1831 Rev. William Cowherd (1763-1816) Dr. William Lambe (1765-1847) Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840) John Frank Newton (1770-?1827) Robert Southey (1774-1843) James Pierrepont Greaves (1777-1842) Lewis Gompertz (1779-1865) Joseph Brotherton - (1783-1857), became a Bible Christian, Salford's first M.P. (1832), and chaired the first meeting of the first Vegetarian Society (1847) Lord (George Gordon) Byron (1788-1824) Thomas Forster M.D. 1789-1860 - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883 William Harvey (1789-1870) - became the second President of the Vegetarian Society in 1859 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Georgiana Fletcher Welch (nee Ford) (1792- ) - patron of The Concordium Sophia Chichester (nee Ford) (1795-1847) Patron of The Concordium Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) Thomas Hood (1799-1845) William Horsell (1807-1863) The Bible Christian Church (1809-1930) A migrant's story (1817) Roots of vegetarianism Salford's first MP Transatlantic vegetarians Complete Old Books: An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food (PDF 8mb) by Joseph Ritson (1761-1803), pub.1802 Joseph Ritson, A Critical Biography (PDF 14mb), by Henry Alfred Burd, 1916 The Code of Health and Longevity Or a Concise View of the Principles Calculated for the Preservation of Health and the Attainment of Long Life. Vol III: (PDF 18mb) by John Sinclair, pub 1806. Facts authentic, in science and religion: designed to illustrate a new tr. of the Bible (PDF 43mb) by William Cowherd, 1818 Life of Lord Byron : with his letters and journals (Vol.1 - to 1811) (PDF 13mb) pub. London, 1839, this edition 1854. Byron (1788-1824) had a rather inconsistent meatless diet - p.356 (1811): "...an entire vegetable diet, neither fish nor flesh coming within my regimen." Life of Lord Byron : with his letters and journals (Vol.2 - 1811-1813) (PDF 26mb) pub. London, 1839, this edition 1854. Life of Lord Byron : with his letters and journals (Vol.3 1814-17) (PDF 12mb) pub. London, 1839, this edition 1854. p.337: abstinence.... like some years ago, ...of diet, and, with the exception of some convivial weeks and days, (it might be months, now and then,) have kept to Pythagoras ever since. Lord Byron's Don Juan (PDF 36mb) first two Cantos pub.1819, unfinished at Canto 16 on Byron's death in 1824. This complete edition from Philadelphia, 1859. Overall it reflects Byron's inconsistency about his diet. Shelley at Oxford (1810/11) (PDF 14mb) - by Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Originally published as a series of magazine articles in 1832/33. This edition from 1904. Letters from Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1810/11) (PDF 3.7mb) - with notes by W. M. Rossetti and H. Buxton Forman, 1897 Letters from Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener - Vol.1, 1811 (PDF 6.0mb) - privately printed 1890 Letters from Shelley (& some by Harriet) to Elizabeth Hitchener - Vol.2, 1812 (PDF 5.5mb) - privately printed 1890 A Vindication of Natural Diet (original 1813) (PDF 2.3mb) - by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - 1884, with a preface by Henry S. Salt and W.E.A. Axon, 1884 edition. The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Vol. 2 (PDF 20mb) by Jefferson Hogg, pub. 1858. This is a much critcised biography, more about Hogg than Shelley. V.2 covers 1813. Letters from Shelley to William Godwin Vol.1 - 1812 & 1816 (PDF 4.0mb) - privately printed 1891 Letters from Shelley to William Godwin Vol.1 - 1816 to 1820 (PDF 3.9mb) - privately printed 1891 Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (PDF 37mb) by Mary W. Shelley. Written 1816-17, first pub.1818. This is the revised version from 1831. Mary Shelley's vegetarian monster (the book includes The Ghost Seer Vol.1, by Schiller) Letters from Shelley to Jane Clairmont (1816-1822) (PDF 3.8mb) - privately printed 1889 The Shelley Society's papers. 1886-1890 (PDF 25mb) - 20 articles by various authors A Shelley Primer (PDF 6.4mb) - by Henry S. Salt 1887 Shelley's Vegetarianism (PDF 1.2mb) - by W.E.A.Axon, 1890 Shelley's principles; has time refuted or confirmed them? (PDF 3.5mb) by Henry S. Salt, 1892 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and pioneer; a biographical study (PDF 13mb) - by Henry S. Salt, 1896 Peacock's memoir of Shelley, with Shelley's letters to Peacock (PDF 13mb) - 1909 edition The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (plain text .txt files) - edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A., 1914,with Prefaces and notes by Mrs. Shelley: Volume 1 (.txt 1.25mb) - Major poems Volume 2 (.txt 404k) - Short Poems and Fragments Volume 3 (.txt 663k) - Translations, Epigrams and Juvenilia Selected prose works of Shelley (PDF 8.9mb) - edited by Henry S. Salt, 1915 - The necessity of atheism -- A letter to Lord Ellenborough -- A refutation of deism -- A defence of poetry -- Essay on the literature, the arts, and the manners of the Athenians -- On life -- On a future state -- Essay on Christianity The Surgical Works Vol.2 (PDF 15mb) by John Abernethy, pub, London 1811. 'Of Tumours' p.93: '...the power of the regimen recommend by Dr. Lambe should be fairly tried.' Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption, Scrofula, Cancer, Asthma, and Other Chronic Diseases (PDF 10mb) by Dr. William Lambe, First Pub. London 1815 as 'Additional reports on the effects of a peculiar regimen in the cases of cancer, scrofula, consumption, asthma and other chronic diseases.' This edition 1850 New York with intro by Joel Shew M.D. The New Age - Concordium Gazette (PDF 19.4mb) - from Alcott House, Ham Common, Surrey. Complete issues - May 1843 to December 1844 This includes the first known use of the word 'vegetarian' in 1843. Fruits and farinacea the proper food of man (PDF 9mb) by John Smith, London 1845 Hydropathy for the People (PDF 9mb) by William Horsell, written in England in 1845, with notes by Russell Trall M.D. for this New York, 1850 edition. Horsell hosted the founding meeting of The Vegetarian Society at his Hydropathic Hospital, Ramsgate, in 1847, and became the first Secretary. The Truth Tester (1846-48) and The Vegetarian Advocate (1848-50) (html pages) published by William Horsell, Ramsgate then London. Became the official journal of The Vegetarian Society from Sept.1847. No full scan available, just extracts.