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Rural Rides ist ein 1830 erschienenes Buch des englischen Schriftstellers William Cobbett. Hintergrund und Inhalt. William Cobbett war einer der bemerkenswertesten Charaktere des 19. Jahrhunderts.
English. Publisher. The Political Register. Publication date. Serialised 1822–1826. Published in English. 1830 in 2 volumes. Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known.
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My journey with Scarlet is a modern take on this. I work as a Land Agent specialising in rural planning so the countryside has always been my workplace. Now with my one horsepower companion, whose ancestors also worked the land, I am seeking an understanding of the impact of the modern world on rural communities, businesses and the countryside.
- Early Life
- Refuge in France and The United States
- Return to England and The Political Register
- Prison
- "Two-Penny Trash"
- Refuge in The United States
- Later Life
- Parliamentary Career
- Legacy
- Works
William Cobbett was born in Farnham, Surrey, on 9 March 1763, the third son of George Cobbett, a farmer and publican, and Anne Vincent. He was taught to read and write by his father and he started working from an early age. He later said: "I do not remember a time when I did not earn my living. My first occupation was driving small birds from the t...
Cobbett had developed an animosity towards some officers, suspecting them of corruption, and gathered evidence on the matter while in New Brunswick. His charges against them were ignored. He wrote The Soldier's Friend in 1792, in protest against the low pay and harsh treatment of enlisted men in the British army. Sensing that he was about to be ind...
Cobbett's American writings were reprinted in Britain, with John Wright acting as his agent. In August 1800, Windham invited Cobbett to dinner with the Prime Minister, William Pitt, and contributors to the Anti-Jacobin, including George Canning. Pitt's government offered Cobbett the editorship of a government newspaper, but he chose to remain indep...
Cobbett was found guilty of treasonous libel on 15 June 1810, after objecting in The Register to the flogging at Ely, Cambridgeshire of local militiamen by Hanoverians. During his two years' incarceration at Newgate Prison, he wrote the pamphlet Paper Against Gold, warning of the dangers of paper money, and many essays and letters. On his release, ...
By 1815 the tax on newspapers had reached four pence a copy. As few people could afford to pay six or seven pence for a daily newspaper, the tax restricted the circulation of most journals to those with fairly high incomes. Cobbett could sell only about a thousand copies a week. Nonetheless, he began criticising William Wilberforce for endorsing th...
Cobbett lived for two years on a farm on Long Island, where he wrote Grammar of the English Language. With help from William Benbow, a friend in London, he continued to issue the Political Register. He also wrote The American Gardener(1821), one of the earliest horticultural books published in the United States. Cobbett observed alcohol-drinking ha...
Cobbett's arrival came soon after the Peterloo Massacre. He joined with other radicalsin attacks on the government and was charged with libel three times in the next couple of years. In 1820, he campaigned for Parliament in Coventry, but finished last in the poll. That year he also founded a plant nursery at Kensington, where he grew many North Ame...
During his lifetime Cobbett campaigned for parliament five times, of which four attempts were unsuccessful: 1. 1806 Honiton 2. 1820 Coventry 3. 1826 Preston 4. 1832 Manchester In 1832 he was elected as a member for Oldham.
Cobbett is considered to have begun as an inherently conservative journalist. He was angered by the corrupt British political establishment, and became increasingly radical and sympathetic to antigovernment and democratic ideals. He provided a panegyric extolling rural England during the Industrial Revolution, the latter of which he was not in symp...
A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, Philadelphia, 1795, as "Peter Porcupine", reprinted at London in 1797A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, vol. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI,...A Grammar of the English Language, New York, 181828. Nov. 2020 · Rural Rides ist das Zentrum von Cobbetts umfangreichem publizistischem Lebenswerk und der Schnittpunkt seiner oft widersprüchlichen sozialpolitischen Gedankengänge.
Rural Rides. William Cobbett (1763 - 1835). William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his Political Register between 1822 and 1826, reflecting conditions of farmers and labourers in the English countryside, together with his views on the necessary actions for remedy and the shortcomings of government ...
