William Cobbett [microform]
β Scribed by Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard), 1889-1959
- Publisher
- Westminster [London] : The Fabian Society
- Year
- 1925
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Portrait on cover
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
William Cobbett was widely considered to be one of the most contentious figures who animated the political scene in the early 19th century. A self-educated man, βborn and bred at the tail of the ploughβ, he equipped himself for public life in the hard school of experience, scorning what he called βt
<span>Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British society with his copious and acerbic writings on any and every issue that caught his att