William Wilberforce

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...

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...

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 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...

This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. An early reviewer, Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical Review, noted some inconsistency between the...

Her devotion to John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More 's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce . By late 1838, however...

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...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

IB 's great-grandfather Sir George Merttins was Lord Mayor of London. William Wilberforce , a leader in the fight against slavery, was her father's second cousin. Two of her male relatives became Bishops in the...

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...