Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
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Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
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Cobbett, William
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Cobbett, William, ca 1763-1835
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Cobbett, William (1762-1835).
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Retort Dick 1763-1835
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コベット, ウィリアãƒ
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Porcupine, Peter ca 1763-1835
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Peter Porcupine
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Cobbett, W.
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Cobbett, Wm. 1763-1835 (William),
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Cobbett, Guilherme
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Jonathan one of the people called Christians 1763-1835
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Jonathan one of the people called Christians 1763-1835
Cobett, William, 1763-1835
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Cobbett, Wiliam
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Cobbett, Wiliam
Cobbet, William 1763-1835
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Cobbet, William 1763-1835
Porcupine, Peter
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Cobbett, Wm 1763-1835
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Porcupine, Peter 1763-1835
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Porcupine, Peter 1763-1835
American, 1763-1835
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American, 1763-1835
Peter Porcupine ca 1763-1835
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Peter Porcupine ca 1763-1835
Retort, Dick
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Cobbett, Wilhelm.
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Peter Porcupine, 1763-1835
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William Cobbett, British journalist, writer and political activist.
English journalist and political reformer; producer of Cobbett's Weekly Political Register from 1802 to 1835. Threatened with arrest for sedition, Cobbett took refuge in the United States from 1817 to 1819.
William Cobbett, British journalist and reformer. In March 1792, he traveled to France but the French Revolution made him sail to the United States in September. He settled in Wilmington, Del. where he taught English to French immigrants. In 1794, he moved to Philadelphia, and in 1800 returned to England.
William Cobbett, English political writer and farmer. In the 1790's, Cobbett wrote many anti-Jacobin pamphlets and journal articles under the pseudonym Peter Porcupine. In 1801 he began the Political Register, a journal that was continuously published until his death, and which traced the trajectory of his politics toward the radical. Threatened with arrest for sedition, Cobbett took refuge in the United States from 1817 to 1819. His years of advocacy for English farmers helped him secure a short but successful career in Parliament during the last years of his life.
English essayist, politician, and agriculturist, elected Member of Parliament in 1832, who issued Cobbett's Weekly Political Register from 1802-1835.
William Cobbett, English political writer and farmer.
Revolutionary War pamphleteer.
English political journalist and essayist.
English essayist and politician.
British essayist, politician and agriculturist.
Philadelphia journalist, wrote under the name Peter Porcupine.
English author.
British writer who lived in the United States from 1792-1800 where he pursued an interest in journalism.
William Cobbett was a polemical writer, publisher, and activist. Born in England, he worked odd jobs and served an unsatisfying stint in the army, stationed in Canada, before traveling to the United States. While there, he wrote and published in Philadelphia, where he promoted friendship between England and America while warning against France. He returned to England in 1800, where he continued writing and publishing his views about social and political issues. Blunt, outspoken, and remarkably prolific, Cobbett was an important force in social reform and political activism, although his views were often controversial.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was an English journalist and publicist. His pseudonym was Peter Porcupine. In 1792-1800 and again in 1817-1819, Cobbett was a political refugee in the United States. While a refugee, in 1796, he opened a bookshop in Philadelphia. It is for this bookshop that this ledger was kept until 1800.
Political writer and agitator.
British political journalist.
Cobbett resided in America during the years 1792-1800 and 1817-1819, where he pursued his political pamphleteering and journalism.
William Cobbett emigrated to Philadelphia in 1792. He taught English to French refugees. He became very active in bookselling and publishing and eventually, as a pamphleteer, became a factor in American politics. In 1796, he began "The Censor," a monthly publication; it was replaced in 1797 by "Porcupine's Gazette," which ran until 1799. He was a Royalist who sided with the Federalist in American politics.
In 1797 he was sued for libel by Dr. Benjamin Rush. Cobbett took issue with Rush's treatment of Yellow Fever by bleeding. Cobbett contended that the bleeding caused more deaths of those stricken by the epidemic than cured. Rush won the lawsuit and was awarded $5,000.
Cobbett removed to England in 1800, where he renewed his bookselling and publishing interests and became quite active in English politics.
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Great Britain. Birmingham.
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