The revolution in Tanner's Lane

About “The revolution in Tanner's Lane”

The Revolution in Tanner's Lane is a novel by William Hale White, written under the pseudonym Mark Rutherford, that follows the story of Zachariah Coleman, a newly married man in 1814 whose religious and political convictions lead him into conflict and personal turmoil. The narrative traces his involvement with the 1817 march of Blanketeers, his subsequent flight, and later shifts to the town of Cowfold twenty years later, where similar themes of political and religious change unfold among a new generation.