John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… a new form 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 … Thewall Elocutionary Project”, John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments, ed. Yasmin Solomonescu, special issue, Romantic Circles: Praxis Series 12 (September 2011); http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/thelwall/HTML/praxis.2011.stanback.html. The …
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