The distinguished German scholar and political commentator Victor Aimé Huber travelled to Blackley in 1844 to see Samuel Bamford on the recommendation of Thomas Carlyle, in order to pursue his study of the Social Question in England. In 1850 his compatriot, the celebrated novelist and travel writer Fanny Lewald, on a tour of England and Scotland, paid a social visit to the Bamfords instigated by the writer Geraldine Jewsbury, who subsequently arranged for her to see Samuel Bamford again, in Manchester. The reports provide a wealth of information about the Bamfords’ circumstances, opinions and reflections on their past. They also point up differences between English and German culture, class and social conventions. For both Huber and Lewald, meeting the Bamfords was one of the most revealing experiences of their stay in Britain. Whilst reviews of Passages in the Life of a Radical in the German press, like the critique in the Quarterly Review, contain both partisan and measured appraisal, by the late 1840s Bamford’s account of Peterloo had become the standard reference text in German-speaking lands.

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遇见班福德：维克多·艾姆·胡贝尔和范妮·勒瓦尔德的叙述

1844 年，杰出的德国学者和政治评论家维克多·艾梅·胡贝尔在托马斯·卡莱尔的推荐下前往布莱克利会见塞缪尔·班福德，以便在英国继续研究社会问题。1850 年，他的同胞、著名的小说家和旅行作家范妮·勒瓦尔德 (Fanny Lewald) 在游览英格兰和苏格兰时，在作家杰拉尔丁·犹太人伯里 (Geraldine Jesusbury) 的怂恿下对班福德家族进行了一次社交访问，后者随后安排她在曼彻斯特再次与塞缪尔·班福德 (Samuel Bamford) 见面。这些报告提供了大量关于班福德一家的情况、意见和对他们过去的反思的信息。他们还指出了英德文化、阶级和社会习俗之间的差异。对于 Huber 和 Lewald 来说，会见 Bamfords 是他们在英国逗留期间最具启发性的经历之一。