Search

Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]

… > Art and Literature Keywords Miracle Healer Supernaturalism Pseudo-science Public Figure Charisma Irrational Crowd Bill of Rights Popular Emancipation In 1666 Valentine Greatrakes (Affane, County of Waterford, 14 February 1628 – 28 November … sociability. … Miracle Healer … Supernaturalism … Pseudo-science … Public Figure … Charisma … Irrational Crowd … Bill of Rights … Popular Emancipation … Valentine Greatrakes …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… John Moore, Fanny Burney, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and William Godwin. As an abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade , 1788) and pacifist, Williams expressed sympathy in her works for the … Bourbons from a French couple who had been victims of that regime, for the French Revolution ( Julia , 1790). With their rights reinstated after the fall of the Bastille, the Du Fossé family invited Williams to stay with them so that she … Noirs’s first society in Paris, Williams had close connections with the members of the British Club ‘The Friends of the Rights of Man, associated in Paris’. The British Club’s membership included English, Irish and American supporters of the …

John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… Press (which was formed to celebrate the achievements of Thomas Erskine in defending the publication of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man ) , the Borough Society of the Friends of the People, and the Society for Constitutional Information. In … Right : If the people are not permitted to associate and knit themselves together for the vindication of their rights, how shall they frustrate attempts which will inevitably be made against their liberties? The scattered million, … run up to the passing of the gagging acts William Godwin published his Considerations on Lord Grenville’s and Mr Pitt’s bills (1795), which attacked the Two Acts as unnecessarily repressive, but which along the way attacked Thelwall’s …

Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… a young man, Defoe would see his Dissenting community persecuted for their religious convictions and he would defend the rights of Dissenters to worship in accord with their consciences throughout his life. Defoe’s relationship with the … target of his ironic critique of anti-Dissenter prejudice. 3 . Daniel Defoe, The Opinion of a Known Dissenter on the Bill for Preventing Occasional Conformity (London: J. Nutt, 1703), p. [2]. The same could be said for Defoe’s political …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… plebeian and working class radicals such as the London Corresponding Society began to meet in alehouses to discuss the rights of man, counter-revolutionary propaganda frequently associated the tavern with the alehouse, seeing both as … London Tavern and the Crown and Anchor, with all of the rooms packed out. But with Pitt’s stranglehold on parliament the Bills were passed, thus effectively bringing to an end the tavern, whose importance slowly declined in the early years of …