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William Cobbett. William Cobbett, the son of a tavern owner, was born in Farnham, Surrey, on 9th March 1763. Taught to read and write by his father, Cobbett worked as a farm labourer until 1783 when he moved to London and found work as a clerk. A year later Cobbett joined the army and eventually achieved the rank of corporal.
William Cobbett Birthplace: Now a pub that bears his name Bust of William Cobbett: located in the Museum Garden Dame Penelope unveils Cobbett Statue William Cobbett's Resting Place: St Andrew Churchyard EST 1976 Welcome to the William Cobbett Society Website. The William Cobbett Society was founded in 1976 to bring together those who have an […]
This chapter discusses William Cobbett's relationship to the Peterloo Massacre. First, it examines Cobbett's 'To the Journeymen and Labourers' (1816), a cheap, mass-produced pamphlet that provoked working-class discontent before Peterloo. Second, the chapter analyzes Cobbett's reaction to the Peterloo Massacre while he was self-exiled in America.
26 de abr. 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 ...
9 de abr. de 2020 · Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing Rural Rides, in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner. He embarked on a series of journeys by horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the English Midlands.
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.
In Democracy, or a Sketch of the Life of Buonaparte (1800) Gillray had told the story of Napoleon's life in a series of eight panels. But all of those panels were contained on a single large page. The Life of William Cobbett is on a whole different scale. Each panel is a separate plate with room for a much more elaborate and detailed design.
