Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Henry Hunt
Standard Name: Hunt, Henry
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16 August 1819: Several people were killed and more wounded...
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16 August 1819
Several people were killed and more wounded by cavalry, in a crowd gathered peacefully in St Peter's Fields at Manchester to hear the radical Henry Hunt
speak in favour of electoral reform: this became known...
13 September 1819: Henry Hunt (organiser of the meeting at Manchester...
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13 September 1819
Henry Hunt
(organiser of the meeting at Manchester which became the Peterloo Massacre) was welcomed by huge crowds on his arrival in London to stand trial.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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3 August 1832: In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry...
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3 August 1832
In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry Hunt
presented Parliament with a petition for female enfranchisement on behalf of Miss Mary Smith
of Stanmore, Yorkshire.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
