William Wilberforce

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.

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...

Her dedication to William Wilberforce , dated 13 July 1816, is accompanied by a title-page remark about the Christian virtues of the sooty African. The Africans who appear in the story, kidnapped into slavery...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...