sentences:  This is achieved in a politico-historical setting, with vivid accounts of the Peterloo Massacre or "Manchester Massacre" of 1819 and the Corn-Law riots (the Anti-Corn Law League was formed in Manchester in 1838).In 1896, the year before she died, a well-illustrated edition of "The Manchester Man" was published with forty-six plates and three maps.The book is still read throughout the world (following republication in 1991 and again in 1998), and its heroes, Jabez Clegg and Joshua Brooks, are commemorated locally in the names of Manchester public houses.