William Cobbett

Politically, CF was a conservative. She made fun of committed radicals like Byron or William Cobbett who demanded reform of the British constitution. She put forward more than once, with seriousness underlying her humour, the...

Speech of the Member for Odium represents a speech by William Cobbett (who had been elected in 1832 as member of parliament for Oldham) which first proposes a bill to abolish the sun and...

One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...

This book is character-driven in AF 's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell and William Cobbett . Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...

KEI 's Hampshire Pilgrimages: Men and women who have sojourned in Hampshire, presented brief lives of Austen , Charlotte Mary Yonge , Florence Nightingale , Gilbert White , William Cobbett , and Joseph Stevens .

Sources from which excerpts are taken include Jane Austen 's letters, William Cobbett 's Rural Rides, painter Anna Lea Merritt 's book A Hamlet in Old Hampshire, Hampshire Days by William Henry Hudson

VL was educated in art and literature by her mother and half-brother (who was studying languages in preparation for university). With Matilda Paget she read Hugh Blair 's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres...

HM contributed to the penny-halfpenny The Anti-Cobbett or Weekly Patriotic Register, set up under government influence to combat the radical Cobbett 's Weekly Political Register.

Responses to More's tracts, as to most of her work, reflected their deliberately controversial project. She was widely praised for them among her own class. Someone said she let the poor know that the rich...

The year 1816 saw strained political circumstances in Britain, when the end of the Napoleonic wars brought unemployment, rising prices, and (in the opinion of the government) the threat of revolution. HM was called on...

Portsea, a waterfront area of was then, as William Cobbett noted, falling from prosperity after the Napoleonic Wars; it was, indeed, tumbling down.

During her work on this novel SHR was appearing regularly on stage, learning nearly forty different parts, and writing as well three plays, several songs, and an address in verse. Her preface (on the...

Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers.William Cobbett attacked her...