Rural Rides by William Cobbett
Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.
William Cobbett was born in 1763 at Surrey, England. An author, farmer and journalist, he yearned for something more than his simple country life could afford, and became intimately familiar with the English language while enlisted with Nova Scotia. Noted for his efforts which served as a preamble to the Reform Bill of 1832, as well as for his aversion to authority and novelty, Mr. Cobbett is most famous for his Rural Rides, which was printed in 1830. He also composed A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland, which amounts to a thrilling and accurate portrayal of the untold disasters of the times during the Reform. He died on the eighteenth of June, 1835, at the age of seventy-two.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780094640603 |
| ISBN 10 | 0094640602 |
| Title | Rural Rides |
| Author | William Cobbett |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
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| Year published | 1982-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
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