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William Wilberforce
Standard Name: Wilberforce, William
Connections
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
opens by reminding her readers that although the slave trade had been abolished in Britain and its possessions seventeen years before this, and although trading in slaves was now a felony for British subjects... |
Textual Features | Ann Hatton | Her dedication to William Wilberforce
, dated 13 July 1816, is accompanied by a title-page remark about the Christian virtues of the sooty African. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Harvey | The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce
, and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Harvey | JH
's broadside sets out to oppose new legislation which would protect farmers by blocking the import of cheap grain. It looks back to a golden time when the poor as well as the rich... |
Textual Features | Martha Hale | She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings
an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues... |
Literary responses | Olaudah Equiano | This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Bird | IB
's great-grandfather Sir George Merttins
was Lord Mayor of London. William Wilberforce
, a leader in the fight against slavery, was her father's second cousin. Two of her male relatives became Bishops in the... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
, Epistle to William Wilberforce
, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, was entered with the Stationers' Company
by Joseph Johnson
. It was her first new... |
Timeline
16 June 1824: The first meeting of the Society for the...
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16 June 1824
The first meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RSPCA) took place in London.
8 April 1825: Lucy Townsend hosted a meeting at which the...
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8 April 1825
Lucy Townsend
hosted a meeting at which the first British slavery association for women was formed, the Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves
(which later changed its name to the Female Society for Birmingham
1837: Evangelical Thomas Fowell Buxton founded...
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1837
Evangelical Thomas Fowell Buxton
founded the Aborigines Protection Society
to stop the slave trade and promote the spread of Christianity among the people of Africa.
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