John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… being the subject of a Treason Trial in 1794, and for his involvement in radical groups such as the London Corresponding Society in which he helped to forge a new model of political sociability. His interest in finding the best means to … of identity. As his second wife, Cecile Thelwall wrote in her 1837 biography: ‘ the prospect of mingling in circles of society, more correspondent to his taste and turn of mind than those to which had hitherto been confined, had altogether formed an association intoxicating’ (Thelwall 18). It was this love of ‘circles of society’ in which his own views might be reflected and furthered that defined much of his career in the 1780s and 1790s. …
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