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's desire to improve the lives of black people, either those in Africa or those of the diaspora, had led him to think of becoming a missionary or a colonist. On nautical visits to...
Publishing
Mary Robinson
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published a romantic sonnet, Twilight, in the Morning Post, where it appeared alongside accounts of a notorious divorce case and government action against the London Corresponding Society
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Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
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Timeline
16 December 1789: The Society for Constitutional Information...
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16 December 1789
The Society for Constitutional Information
(a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 1183
January 1792: A shoemaker named Thomas Hardy founded the...
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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By mid May 1794: The First Report from the Committee of Secrecy...
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By mid May 1794
The First Report from the Committee of Secrecy was published in London. The Committee was set up to monitor and investigate potentially seditious activities by the Society for Constitutional Information
(founded in April 1780)...