{"id":1136,"date":"2009-06-02T03:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2009-06-02T03:10:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T07:10:04","slug":"1136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/1136\/","title":{"rendered":"Tressell\u2019s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 74px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tressell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tressell.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A must read!<\/figcaption><\/figure>The local Hastings weekly newspaper, <em>The Observer<\/em>, carries a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hastingsobserver.co.uk\/newshastings\/Novel-based-in-Hastings-proving.5313061.jp\">report<\/a> about Tressell&#8217;s <em>Ragged Trousered Philanthropists<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A classic novel based in Hastings has turned into a surprise bestseller. According to industry insiders, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell has enjoyed a huge upsurge in sales. And experts believe this could be a direct result of the recession, as readers flock to snap up more radical reads. Sales of the book received a boost last year, following a star-studded Radio 4 serialisation of the work that featured Bill Bailey, Timothy Spall, Johnny Vegas, Paul Whitehouse and the MP John Prescott in a cameo role. This year, in the midst of dire economic forecasts, the book is still confounding expectations, peaking at number six in the Amazon Movers and Shakers list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s amusing is that Tressell ridicules the local newspaper in the socialist novel as <em>The Obscurer<\/em>. Sadly, the newspaper&#8217;s reputation hasn&#8217;t improved one century later! The novel is set in Hastings or Mugsborough as it is depicted in the novel. We went on a walking tour of Hastings last summer to see where Tressell lived and worked and wrote <em>The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists<\/em>. Tressell is also featured at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmag.org.uk\/robertTressell\/\">Hastings Museum and Art Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local Hastings weekly newspaper, The Observer, carries a report about Tressell&#8217;s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. A classic novel based in Hastings has turned into a surprise bestseller. According to industry insiders, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell has enjoyed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/1136\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,27],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-books","tag-grumpy-vegan-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}