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Authors: Simon Schama
Nearests and dearests always get the ritual dose of gratitude for forbearance and support, but no family which has not endured a husband and father in two sets of simultaneous delirium – television and literary – quite knows the meaning of the term ‘long-suffering’. For Ginny, Chloe and Gabriel, who have borne with all this and still given me unreasonable love, I return it with interest and with all my heart.
There is one old friend, Roy Porter, who, unhappily, will not be reading this book and giving it the benefit of his great-hearted, inordinately generous judgement. But if there was anyone to whose storytelling skills and human insight this volume owes any of its qualities it was Roy, to whose absence I will never quite be reconciled, and to whose memory it is dedicated.
Abbreviations
BM Press – British Museum Press; CUP – Cambridge University Press; OUP – Oxford University Press; UCL – University College, London; UP – University Press
Bagehot, Walter,
The English Constitution
(Chapman & Hall 1867, OUP 2001)
Bamford, Samuel,
Passages in the Life of a Radical
, 2 vols (Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1844)
Bartrum, Katherine,
A Widow’s Reminiscences of the Siege of Lucknow
(J. Nisbet 1858)
Beeton, Mrs Isabella,
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(J. Dodsley 1790)
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(Trubner & Co. 1869)
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(Chapman & Hall 1843)
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(William Paterson 1882)
Churchill, Winston S.,
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(Thornton Butterworth 1938)
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(Thornton Butterworth 1930)
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Cobbett, William,
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(William Cobbett 1830)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, and Wordsworth, William,
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Gaskell, Elizabeth,
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, 2 vols (Chapman & Hall 1848)
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(Richard Bentley 1858)
Keith, A. B. (ed.),
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, 2 vols (OUP 1922)
Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James Phillips,
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(James Ridgway 1832)
Macaulay, Thomas Babbington,
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Mill, John Stuart,
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(Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer 1873)
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(Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer 1859)
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(Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer 1869)
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(Simmons, Kirkby & Jones 1793)
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… (G. G. and J. Robinson 1795)
Morton, H.V.,
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Paine, Thomas,
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(J. S. Jordan 1792)
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(B. White 1772)
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(1773, H. Hughes 1778–9)
Priestley, J. B.,
English Journey … during the Autumn of the Year 1933
(Gollancz 1934)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore,
Contrasts
… (1836)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore,
The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture
(John Weale 1841)
Price, Richard,
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, Delivered on Nov. 4 1789, at the Meeting-House in Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain
(T. Cadell 1789)
Rees, L. E.,
A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow, from its Commencement to its Relief by Sir Colin Campbell
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts 1858)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
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, 2 vols (1782, J. Bews 1783)
Ruskin, John,
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(Smith Elder 1865)
Smiles, Samuel,
Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
(Murray 1859)
Smith, Barbara Leigh,
A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women
(1854, Trubner & Co. 1869)
Strachey, Lytton,
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(Chatto & Windus 1918)
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(Chatto & Windus 1921)
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, 1792–9 (CUP 1983)
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… (Macmillan & Co. 1880)
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, edited by Anthony Sattin (OUP 1986)
Wells, H. G.,
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(George Newnes 1919)
West, Thomas,
A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire
, (Richardson & Urquhart 1780)
Wollstonecraft, Mary,
A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France
(J. Johnson 1790)
Wollstonecraft, Mary,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
(J. Johnson 1792)
Wordsworth, William,
The Prelude, or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
(1798–9, Edward Moxon 1850)
Young, Arthur,
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(W. Strahan 1770)
Bayly, C. A.,
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(Longman 1989)
Brewer, John,
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(HarperCollins 1997)
Brown, Judith and Louis, Wm. Roger (eds),
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(OUP 1999)
Cain, P.J., and Hopkins, A. G.,
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, 2 vols (Longman 1993)
Cain, P.J.,
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(Palgrave Macmillan 1980)
Cannadine, David,
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(Yale UP 1998)
Cannadine, David,
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(Allen Lane/Penguin Press 2001)
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et al
(eds),
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(Yale UP 2002)
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Economics and Empire, 1880–1914
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973)
Foster, R. F.,
Modern Ireland, 1600–1971
(Allen Lane/Penguin Press 1988)
Groenewegen, Peter (ed.),
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(Elgar Publishing 1994)
Hobsbawm, Eric, and Ranger, Terence (eds),
The Invention of Tradition
(CUP 1983)
Hyam, Ronald,
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(Palgrave Macmillan 1993)
James, Lawrence,
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(Little, Brown & Co. 1994)
Kiernan, V. G.,
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(Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969)
Lee, J.,
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(Gill & Macmillan 1973)
Mansergh, Nicholas,
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(Allen & Unwin 1975)
Porter, Roy,
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(Penguin 1982)
Porter, Andrew, and Low, Alaine (eds),
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(OUP 1999)
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(Allen Lane 2000)
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(Routledge 2000)
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, pp. 155–85, edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb (CUP 1988)
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(Gollancz 1963, Penguin 1968)
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(Verso 1985)
Andrews, Malcolm,
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(Stanford 1989)
Ayling, Stanley,
Edmund Burke
(Murray 1988)
Bannet, Eve Tavor,
The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel
(Johns Hopkins UP 2000)
Barker-Benfield, G.J.,
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-century Britain
(University of Chicago Press 1992)
Barrell, John,
Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide
(OUP 2000)
Bate, Jonathan,
Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Tradition
(Routledge 1991)
Bate, Jonathan,
The Song of the Earth
(Picador 2000)
Behrendt, Stephen C.,
Romanticism, Radicalism and the Press
(Wayne State UP 1997)
Blakemore, Steven,
Burke and the Fall of Language
(Brown UP 1988)
Briggs, Asa,
William Cobbett
(OUP 1967)
Bromwich, David,
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic
(OUP 1983)
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(Yale UP 1996)
Claeys, Gregory (ed.),
The Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings off John Thelwall
(Pennsylvania State UP 1995)
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(CUP 1985)
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The British Armed Nation, 1793–1815
(Clarendon Press 1997)
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(CUP 1982)
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(OUP 1989)
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Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis
(St Martin’s Press 2000)
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(Harvard UP 1988)
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William Cobbett and the Politics of the Earth
(Edwin Mellen Press 1972)
Dyck, Ian,
William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture
(CUP 1992)
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Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France
(Yale UP 1982)
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Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence
(Yale UP 1989)
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(Macmillan 1979)
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The Tory View of Landscape
(Yale UP 1994)
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English Romanticism: The Human Context
(W.W. Norton 1988)
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The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William Hazlitt
(Phoenix 2001)
Hobsbawm, E.J., and Rudé, George,
Captain Swing
(Lawrence & Wishart 1969)
Holmes, Richard,
Coleridge: Early Visions
(Hodder & Stoughton 1989)
Holmes, Richard,
Coleridge: Darker Reflections
(HarperCollins 1998)
Jacobs, Diane,
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
(Abacus 2001)
Jarrett, Derek,
The Begetters of Revolution: England’s Involvement with France, 1759–89
(Longman 1973)
Jarvis, Robin,
Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel
(Macmillan 1997)
Keane, John,
Tom Paine
(Little, Brown & Co. 1995)
Knight, Frida,
University Rebel: The Life of William Frend, 1757–1841
(Gollancz 1971)
Kramnick, Isaac,
The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative
(Basic Books 1977)
Kritz, Kay Dian,
The Idea of the English Landscape Painter: Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century
(Yale UP 1997)
Newman, Gerald,
The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History 1740–1830
(St Martin’s Press 1997)
O’Brien, Conor Cruise,
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke
(Sinclair Stevenson 1992)
O’Brien, P.,
Debate Aborted: Burke, Priestley, Paine and the Revolution in France, 1789–91
(Scotforth 1996)
Paulin, Tom,
The Day Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt and Radical Style
(Faber 1998)
Porter, Roy,
The Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
(Penguin 2000)
Robinson, Jeffrey C.,
The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image
(University of Oklahoma Press 1989)
Royle, Edward,
Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789–1848
(Manchester UP 2000)
Schweizer, Karl W., and Osborne, John (eds),
Cobbett in His Times
(Leicester UP 1990)
Solnit, Rebecca,
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
(Viking 2000)
Thomis, Malcolm I., and Holt, Peter,
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(Macmillan 1977)
Tillyard, Stella,
Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763–98
(Chatto & Windus 1997)
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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000)
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(Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974, Penguin 1985)
Tyson, Gerald.
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(University of Iowa Press 1979)
Wallace, Anne D.,
Walking, Literature and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century
(OUP 1993)
Wells, Roger,
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(Sutton 1988)
Williams, Raymond,
The Country and the City
(Penguin 1973)
Worthen, John,
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802
(Yale UP 2001)