text: He died in 1877; a snobbish Henry James visiting London, and entirely unaware of the developments, movements, and ideas outlined above, wrote sniffily "The element of the grotesque was very noticeable to me in the most marked collection of the shabbier English types that I had seen since I came to London. The occasion of my seeing them was the funeral of Mr. George Odger it will perhaps be remembered, was an English Radical agitator of humble origin, who had distinguished himself by a perverse desire to get into Parliament knocked in vain at the door that opens but to the refined." (and so on).