unaware of Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Memorial and legacy Spence is listed on the Reformers Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. His admirers formed a "Society of Spencean Philanthropists," of which some account is given in Harriet Martineau's England During the Thirty Years' Peace. The African Caribbean activists William Davidson and Robert Wedderburn were drawn to this political group. Members of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists (including Arthur Thistlewood) maintained contacts with United Irish exiles in Paris, notably with the veteran conspirator William Putnam McCabe, and were implicated in the Spa Field riots of 1816 and the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820. Selected publications The Real Rights of Man (1793) End of Oppression (1795) Rights of Infants (1796) Constitution of Spensonia (1801) The Important Trial of Thomas Spence (1807) Giant Killer or Anti-Landlord (1814) See also Georgism, an economic philosophy holding that economic value derived from land should belong equally to all members of society. List of 18th-century British working-class writers Rights of Man References Citations Sources A. Bonnett, 'The Other Rights of Man: The Revolutionary Plan of Thomas Spence', History Today 57(9) (2007), pp. 42–48. A. Bonnett and K. Armstrong (eds.), Thomas Spence: The Poor Man's Revolutionary (Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014). . M. Chase, The People's Farm: English Radical Agrarianism 1775–1840 (Breviary Stuff Publications, 2010). T. Evans, A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mr. Thomas Spence, Author of the Spencean System of Agrarian Fellowship or Partnership in Land (Author, Manchester 1821). E. Mackenzie, 'Memoir of Thomas Spence', in A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, including the Borough of Gateshead (Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle Upon Tyne 1827), I, pp. 399-402 (Google). T.M. Parssinen, "Thomas Spence and the Spenceans: A Study of Revolutionary Utopianism in the England of George III" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 1968). T.M. Parssinen, 'The Revolutionary Party in London, 1816–20', Historical Research 45 (2007), pp. 266–282 F. Podmore, Robert Owen: A Biography (1907 / Haskell, New York 1971), I, p. 230 ff (Google). O.D. Rudkin, Thomas Spence and His Connections (International Publishers, New York 1927) (Hathi Trust). External links The Thomas Spence Society Thomas Spence, The Real Rights of Man, 1775. Complete Works of Thomas Spence at marxists.org M. Beer, ed., The Pioneers of Land Reform: Thomas Spence, William Ogilvie, Thomas Paine, 1920. British classical liberals English pamphleteers English political writers People