Zachariah Coleman

Major Maitland

Major Maitland and Zachariah Coleman are ideological enemies, representing opposing forces in the revolutionary struggle.

George Allen

George Allen and Zachariah Coleman are close allies and fellow revolutionaries, bound by shared ideals.

Pauline

Pauline and Zachariah Coleman are comrades in the revolutionary cause, with mutual respect and affection.

Mr. Caillaud

Mr. Caillaud is Zachariah Coleman's employer and a fellow radical, with a business and ideological partnership.

Jean Caillaud

Jean Caillaud and Zachariah Coleman are close friends and fellow revolutionaries, united by ideology.

Pauline

Pauline and Zachariah Coleman are comrades in the revolutionary cause, with mutual respect and affection.

Mr. Caillaud

Mr. Caillaud is Zachariah Coleman's employer and a fellow radical, with a business and ideological partnership.

Major Maitland

Major Maitland and Zachariah Coleman are ideological enemies, representing opposing forces in the revolutionary struggle.

Pauline

Pauline and Zachariah Coleman are comrades in the revolutionary cause, with mutual respect and affection.

George Allen

George Allen and Zachariah Coleman are close allies and fellow revolutionaries, bound by shared ideals.

Major Maitland

Major Maitland and Zachariah Coleman are ideological enemies, representing opposing forces in the revolutionary struggle.

Jean Caillaud

Jean Caillaud and Zachariah Coleman are close friends and fellow revolutionaries, united by ideology.

The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane

Present during the events, affected by the religious and political turmoil.

I: The World Outside

A poor printer, small and lean, with white complexion and blackened hands. He refuses to cheer Louis XVIII, is struck by a drayman, and is rescued by Major Maitland. He is a man of deep religious faith and quiet endurance.

Outside Pike Street

Returns home to find Major Maitland visiting; later attends the Friends of the People Club meeting, where he is shocked by the behavior of some reformers.

III: The Theatre

Delayed by work, misses the departure, feels hurt and neglected, but later attends the play and is profoundly affected.

IV: A Friend of the People

Attends Friends of the People meetings regularly but begins to doubt any advance is being made.

V: The Horizon Widens

Visits the Caillauds for the first time, is impressed and disturbed by Pauline's liveliness, and struggles with his attraction to her.

VI: Tea à la Mode

Hosts the tea party, delivers an impassioned Calvinist speech about divine election, but struggles to apply his doctrine to his friends.

VII: Jephthah

Wishes the sermon had been based on the New Testament; feels unsupported by his wife in his efforts to guide friends to truth.

VIII: Unconventional Justice

Taunted by workmates about Joanna Southcott; preoccupied with the Friends of the People meeting; advocates caution with Major Maitland.

IX: A Strain on the Cable

Struggles with faith, poverty, and a strained marriage in Manchester; seeks work and solace in religion.

Disintegration by Degrees

Settles in Manchester, joins the Hampden Club, becomes politically radicalized, and reunites with Maitland, Caillaud, and Pauline.

XI: Politics and Pauline

Engages in political and philosophical debate with Caillaud, watches Pauline's dance, and reluctantly agrees to draw lots to accompany the Blanketeers' March.

XII: One Body and One Spirit

Argues with his wife about meeting Caillaud and Pauline; later seen earnestly talking with Pauline at Caillaud's.

XIII: To the Greeks Foolishness

Attends the club meeting, cares for his ill wife, flees Manchester after the march's failure.

XIV: The School of Adversity: The Sixth Form Thereof

Awakens in the workhouse infirmary, physically weak and mentally tormented after reading Ferguson's Astronomy.

End of the Beginning

Visits Caillaud in prison, is arrested by Nadin, serves two years in prison, loses his wife, and later lives with Pauline and their child.

XVI: Cowfold

Mentioned in the context of the timeline (his second wife died about twenty years before the events of this chapter).

XIX: “The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like Unto Leaven”

Friend of Isaac Allen, supplies books to the Allens, refuses to visit Cowfold or let Pauline go.

The Reverend Thomas Broad’s Exposition of Romans 8:7

Absent during the visit; Pauline later tells him about the encounter.

XXIV: “I Came Not to Send Peace, but a Sword”

Expresses his revolutionary ardour and belief in insurrection, but also shows a reflective, multi-dimensional character shaped by his past.

XXV: “And a Man’s Foes Shall Be They of His Own Household”

Mentioned as the unregenerate person the Allens visit; his daughter is noted for her attractiveness.