Richard Ingrams. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
The Life. and Adventures of. WILLIAM COBBETT. RICHARD INGRAMS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 A SWEET OLD BOY
2 OFF to PHILADELPHIA
3 ENGLAND REVISITED
4 A CONVERT to REFORM
5 BEHIND BARS
6 AMERICA REVISITED
7 QUEEN’S COUNSEL
8 RURAL RIDER
9 THE FINAL PROSECUTION
10 A GREAT EVENT
11 MEMBER for OLDHAM
12 END of the JOURNEY
EPILOGUE
REFERENCES. Chapter 1: A Sweet Old Boy
Chapter 2: Off to Philadelphia
Chapter 3: England Revisited
Chapter 4: A Convert to Reform
Chapter 5: Behind Bars
Chapter 6: America Revisited
Chapter 7: Queen’s Counsel
Chapter 8: Rural Rider
Chapter 9: The Final Prosecution
Chapter 10: A Great Event
Chapter 11: Member for Oldham
Chapter 12: End of the Journey
Epilogue
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHIES OF COBBETT
OTHER WORKS
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
INDEX
COBBETT, WILLIAM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PRAISE
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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I sat in the same room with her for about an hour, in company with others, and I made up my mind that she was the very girl for me. That I thought her beautiful was certain, for that I had always said should be an indispensable qualification: but I saw in her what I deemed marks of that sobriety of conduct, which has been by far the greatest blessing of my life. It was the dead of winter, and, of course, the snow several feet deep on the ground, and the weather piercing cold. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had got two young men to join me in my walk; and our road lay by the house of her father and mother. It was hardly light, but she was out in the snow, scrubbing out a washing tub, ‘That’s the girl for me’, I said, when we had got out of her hearing.
The newlyweds settled in the village of Tilque, near St-Omer in Normandy. Cobbett was delighted by France: ‘I went to that country full of all those prejudices that Englishmen suck in with their mother’s milk against the French and against their religion; a few weeks convinced me that I had been deceived with respect to both. I met everywhere with civility, and even hospitality, in a degree that I had never been accustomed to.’
