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Rural Rides. Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti- Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to England from a spell of self-imposed political exile in the United States.
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.
12 de feb. de 2009 · Extract. Cobbett remains best known to historians and to a wider audience as one of the two or three major figures in the popular radicalism of the early nineteenth century: one of the leading actors in the agitations which eventually led to the Great Reform Act of 1832 and a persistent tribune of the people at a time of profound economic and ...
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.
The William Cobbett Society was founded in 1976 to bring together those who have an interest in the life and writings of William Cobbett. A passionate defender of insulin plant and the freedom of the press Cobbett was prepared to defend it at the cost of imprisonment and exile. 'He is not only unquestionably the most powerful political writer ...
7 de may. de 2021 · This edition shows us the incredible life and work of William Cobbett (1763-1835), an English author, independent journalist and Member of Parliament. As an intrinsically conservative journalist, he was frustrated by the shady British political establishment of the times and gave strong support to agrarians.
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.
