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William Cobbett. While pronouncing Cobbett the politican hope-lessly dead, William Stebbing argued for "a reprieve from oblivion" of one of Cobbett's books: "English literature may be searched in vain for such another miniature of Southern England as the Rural Rides. These transcripts of scenery never grow obsolete."7 A few
William Cobbett, (born March 9, 1763, Farnham, Surrey, Eng.—died June 18, 1835, London), English journalist.He joined the army and served in Canada (1785–91). He lived in the U.S. (1794–1800), where he launched his career as a journalist, fiercely attacking the spirit and practice of American democracy and winning himself the nickname “Peter Porcupine.”
About William Cobbett The Life of William Cobbett William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament, including abolishing “rotten boroughs”, would ease the poverty of farm labourers. Relentlessly he sought an end to borough-mongers, sinecurists […]
2 de mar. de 2009 · William Cobbett was born in Farnham, but settled in Botley in 1805 where he combined his career as a political journalist with farming and family life, bringing up his large brood of seven ...
6 de oct. de 2022 · William Cobbett was a 19th century English writer, politician and campaigner, at a time when England was on the verge of riots and revolution, and many lived in extreme poverty.
31 de may. de 2024 · The character of William Cobbett, so unpredictable in its manifestations, seems to acquire a sharper definition once he is seen in terms of the society he knew. The mind of this risen peasant, political traveller, rustic haranguer and rural rider was an original one; he evolved his own ways of ...
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a distinctively English political actor, who defies easy classification. He was in turn, a soldier; a polemicist (under the pseudonym Peter Porcupine) in America in the 1790s, writing against radicalism and Paine; a publisher in London and an apologist for William Pitt and the Tory government; a chronicler and recorder of Parliamentary proceedings in Cobbett's ...
