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Cobbett's Return to England in 1819
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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:37 authored by John GardnerThis 9000 word article examines the political impact of William Cobbett's return to England in 1819. Cobbett had only arrived back in Britain three months prior to the Cato Street affair, in November 1819. He had spent the preceding two years in America, where he had fled in 1817 to avoid arrest in Britain. As Raymond Williams points out, Cobbett had left Britain when Habeas Corpus was again suspended, fearing arrest after refusing ‘a government bribe to stop writing’. This article examines a period when Cobbett stood for parliament, was imprisoned for bankruptcy, was suspected of being both a potential revolutionary and of being a government spy, helped to found The Lancet Journal, and became speech-writer to Queen Caroline.
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61-76Number of pages
256Series
The Enlightenment WorldExternal DOI
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Pickering & ChattoPlace of publication
London, UKTitle of book
William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and LegacyISBN
9781848935426Editors
James Grande, John StevensonLanguage
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2015-06-17Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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