Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
William Wilberforce
Standard Name: Wilberforce, William
Connections
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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. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation... |
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... |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | These collections supply parts of HM
's correspondence with Matthew Arnold
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, John Chapman
, Maria Weston Chapman
, Anne Jemima Clough
, Samuel Courtauld
, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | Knight had married a white fellow-servant and needed to be free from his master (a man of some eminence who bitterly opposed letting him go) so that he could earn money. This interesting case, lasting... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Twenty-two of the poems are the sister's, thirty-eight the brother's, and three are written by Eliza, a sister-in-law. An Advertisement gallantly suggests that the lady outshines the gentleman. EST
's verse introduction confesses her early... |
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... |
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. Feminist Companion Archive. |
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... |
Residence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
moved from Mayfair to the spacious and elegant Gore House at Kensington (then outside London); the house had the additional advantages of being quieter and more healthful. Gore House had once been occupied... |
politics | Susanna Watts | Watts and her maid were two of the original subscribers to the Leicester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society
, formed this same month. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott. 30 |
Occupation | Hannah More | On visits around the Wrington district the More sisters had been horrified by the squalor, want, and ignorance in which the rural poor were living. They felt that knowledge (especially religious knowledge) was the first... |
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 |
Timeline
22 May 1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave...
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22 May 1787
The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
was founded in London, by Granville Sharp
, Thomas Clarkson
, and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers
.
19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...
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19 April 1791
Wilberforce
's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons
.
Autumn 1791: Anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce...
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Autumn 1791
Anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce
and Henry Thornton
launched the Sierra Leone Company
, which sought to resettle former slaves on the west coast of Africa, and to promote legitimate trade with the region.
1792: The Evangelical Henry Thornton bought a house...
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1792
The EvangelicalHenry Thornton
bought a house on Battersea Rise, Clapham, South London: from this came the name of the Clapham Sect
.
March 1792: The Danish parliament voted to end the slave...
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March 1792
The Danish parliament voted to end the slave trade to their West Indian colonies.
By early March 1792: According to Maria Edgeworth, 25,000 families...
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By early March 1792
According to Maria Edgeworth
, 25,000 families in England had joined in the boycott against West Indian, that is slave-grown, sugar.
mid 1792-1815: These were the active years of the informal...
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mid 1792-1815
These were the active years of the informal evangelical Anglican group later called the Clapham Sect
(then known as the Saints
).
1793: William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt...
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1793
William Wilberforce
led an unsuccessful attempt to get the East India Company
's statutes charter amended, to commit it to furthering the work of missionaries.
September 1793: Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce...
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September 1793
Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce
and radical Thomas Paine
were burned together at Kingston, Jamaica: Anna Maria Falconbridge
witnessed this on her roundabout voyage from Africa to England.
March 1796: An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual...
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March 1796
An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual abolition of the slave trade, put before the House of Commons
by William Wilberforce
, reached a third reading. It was narrowly defeated when some of its supporters...
By May 1797: William Wilberforce published A Practical...
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By May 1797
William Wilberforce
published A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country contrasted with real Christianity.
By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...
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By November 1802
The Society for the Suppression of Vice
was founded in London and grew into the gap left by the Proclamation Society
; ironically, it was often called the Vice Society.
By 19 October 1814: The Episcopal Church in India was founded,...
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By 19 October 1814
The Episcopal Church in India was founded, with Thomas Fanshaw Middleton
installed as the subcontinent's first Anglican bishop.
: Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in...
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Winter1814-15
Evangelical William Wilberforce
stayed in Brighton during the winter season in order to have access to the Prince Regent
and attempt a conversion within the monarchy.
June 1816: Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House...
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June 1816
Lady Isabella King
opened at Bailbrook House near Bath a communal home for single gentlewomen (or Protestant nunnery): a project going back to Mary Astell
, which King picked up from Sarah Scott
's Millenium Hall.
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