Elizabeth Heyrick

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Standard Name: Heyrick, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Coltman
Married Name: Elizabeth Heyrick
Though, as a woman, she worked behind the scenes (not in parliament but through print and private direct action) EH of Leicester was a major, under-recognised figure in the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. Her pamphlet publications address war, cruelty to animals, workers' wages, prison reform, and other social and political topics as well as abolition. Her political thinking on many points startlingly anticipates later socialist positions. She also published lessons for children and a conduct book. The first of these is the genre in which, in the early nineteenth century, her writing career began. Though her sister knew of only sixteen of her pamphlets, the count has since risen steeply. But their unavailability in major reference libraries has hampered recognition of her.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO 's The Black Man's Lament; or, How to Make Sugar, designed for child readers and published in 1826,
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix.
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has been reprinted in Pickering and Chatto 's 8-volume set Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Watts
This includes poems on Elizabeth Heyrick , William Cowper , and Sir Walter Scott , A Prayer: for the Slaves, Delicacy: Inscribed to the Ladies, several of natural description, and yet others on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Hutton
Of particular value in CH 's letters are her comments on literature. She offered detailed views on (probably) Elizabeth Heyrick 's Exposition, a pamphlet about economics, admiring the language while doubting Heyrick's capacity to...
Wealth and Poverty Susanna Watts
An application to the Royal Literary Fund was secretly made on SW 's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick (perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips ; they got her a grant of...

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