John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Image John Hazlitt, ‘John Thelwall’, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 2163, circa 1800-1805. Image James Gillray, ‘Copenhagen House’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, BM … best-known for 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 … of physical gathering to his thinking. 2 . Cecile Thelwall, 'The Life of John Thelwall, by His Widow', 2 vols (London: John Macrone, 1837), 1, p. 22. The Coachmaker’s Hall debating Society was closed down in 1792, not long after a …
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