The Life of Anna Barbauld

Anna Barbauld was born on June 20th, 1723 in Leicestershire. Anna's younger brother pushed her to write and publish her work. She was married in 1774 to Rochemont Barbauld and opened a boarding school in 1785. Her work involved the experiences she had with the children at their borading school. By 1790 her work shifted to things she was most pasionate about, political and social concerns. She was strongly agreed with the abolition of slavery. Her husband soon became mentally ill and took his own life by drowning himself. After this happened, Anna wrote about her loss in Dirge. Her last independently published works criticized the war between Britian and France that was still happening. She passed away in 1825. Her niece published two collections of her work after her death. 

Bibliography

Anna Lætitia Aikin Barbauld. (n.d.). Retrieved September 08, 2020, from http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women//barbauld/biography.html

The Life of William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1779 Cockermouth which is the northwestern English contry of Cumberland. He is the second of 5 children of John and Ann Wordsworth. 

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William Wordsworth died of pleurisy, which is an inflammaton of the lining around the lumgs. He passed at home in Rydal Mount and is buried in St. Oswald's Church in Grasmere.

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The french  revolution was a revolution and they increased in population but it was most viloent era the era of fighting for land and peace and it was alot of wars and french revolution was era of alot of change. 

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The French Revolution

The French Revolution was a long and bloody war. It started in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille and end with Napoleon admitting defeat and establishing himself as the 'first consul'. This marked the end of the French Revolution and began the Napoleonic Era. This was was fought between the monarchy and the people. First, the people got rid of the monarchy. They then tried to have others from among them set up leadership. In the 10 years that France was going through revolution, there were multiple leaders and rulers.

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

In January 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which laid out the tenets of what today we call ‘equality’ or ‘liberal’ feminist theory. She further promoted a new model of the nation grounded on a family politics produced by egalitarian marriages. Image: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman title page from the first American edition, 1792 (Library of Congress).  This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Anne K. Mellor, "On the Publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

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Ghislaine McDayter, "On the Publication of William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1798"

Reign of Terror

A period of violence that occurred a few years after the start of the French Revolution. Image: Anonymous, Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre (c. 1790), Carnavalet Museum. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

On 5 September 1793, the National Convention, France’s ruling body from 1793 to 1795, officially put into effect terror measures in order to subdue opposition to and punish insufficient support for the revolution and the new regime. From the autumn of 1793 until the summer of 1794, thousands of people across the country were imprisoned and executed (including the Queen) under the ruthless leadership of Maximilien Robespierre. The guillotine, particularly the one in Paris’s Place de la Révolution, served as the bloody emblem of the fear tactics that began to manifest themselves first in the formation of the Committee of Public Safety (6 April 1793) and subsequently in the implementation of the Law of Suspects (17 September 1793). The Terror ended on 27 July 1794 with the overthrow of Robespierre, who was guillotined the next day.

Articles

Diane Piccitto, "On 1793 and the Aftermath of the French Revolution"

Washington irving

Washington irving was a very smart educated man in the 1800s he studied law and was writting very essays.  Irving collected alot of stories and essays under his sketch book in 1819.  Irving was serving as the us ammabassordor before making writing his career.  He argued for laws to protect writers work.  Washington irving was btter known for his comic work.  Ivng as once best selling author and he was ambassord for spain.  Also seceratry of the Us legation in london.   Washington irving was born april 3 1783 in manhattan newyork and died in 1859 in tarrytown newyork.  His famous short stories are the legend of sleepy hollow ,rip van winkle the devil and tom walker , kidd the pirate. 

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Byron, "Darkness"

In July 1816, Lord Byron writes his poem, “Darkness,” a vision of chaotic disorder and universal extinction consequent upon the disappearance of the sun. Image: Thomas Philipps, Portrait of Lord Byron (1824). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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Martin Meisel, "On the Age of the Universe"

Gillen D'Arcy Wood, "1816, The Year without a Summer"

Peterloo massacre

On 16 August 1819, at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, more than 60,000 workers gathered to demonstrate in favor of an expansion of suffrage in England. In an attempt to disperse the crowd and arrest the organizers of the demonstration, local cavalry and members of the 15th Hussars and 88th Foot attacked the crowd, killing a dozen protestors and injuring as many as 600. Though Wellington was not involved, the incident was dubbed “Peterloo” because of his persistent opposition to reform in the House of Lords. Image: Richard Carlisle, To Henry Hunt, Esq., as chairman of the emeeting assembled in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, sixteenth day of August, 1819, and to the female Reformers of Manchester and the adjacent towns who were exposed to and suffered from the wanton and fiendish attack made on them by that brutal armed force, the Manchester and Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry, this plate is dedicated by their fellow labourer, Richard Carlile: a coloured engraving that depicts the Peterloo Massacre (1 October 1819), Manchester Library Services. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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James Chandler, “On Peterloo, 16 August 1819″

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Death of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, known as Lord Byron, was born in London on January 22, 1788. He was a British poet and politician known for doing whatever he wanted even if he knew it would lead to bad results, like when he owned a tame bear while he was in college. He claimed to not have an interest in society but his exploits and writings proved otherwise, as if he wanted attention. Lord Byron started publishing his most famous, successful work, Don Juan, in 1819 and it was still not finished being published when he died in 1824. He intensely supported the Greek's freedom during their War of Indepence with the Ottoman Empire, which likely led to his untimely death. Lord Byron died when he caught a fever and infection while he was waiting for the battle in Greece on April 19, 1824. Lord byron was seen as a national hero by many, and was sent back home from Greece and buried in Nottinghamshire. Photo was found at https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Lord-Byron/

Bibliography

Castelow, Ellen. “Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824.” UK Disability History Month, 20 Sept. 2017, ukdhm.org/lord-byron/.

Drummond, Clara. “Lord Byron, 19th-Century Bad Boy.” The British Library, The British Library, 4 Apr. 2014, www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/lord-byron-19thcentury-bad-boy.

Slavery Abolition Act

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 received the Royal Assent (which means it became law) on 29 August 1833. The Act outlawed slavery throughout the British Empire; Britain’s colonial slaves were officially emancipated on 1 August 1834 when the law came into force, although most entered a form of obligatory apprenticeship that ended in 1840. Image: The Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Image: the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Articles

Elsie B. Michie, "On the Sacramental Test Act, the Catholic Relief Act, the Slavery Abolition Act, and the Factory Act"

Sarah Winter, “On the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica and the Governor Eyre-George William Gordon Controversy, 1865-70″

Death of William Wordsworth

Romantic poet William Wordsworth turned 80 on 7 April 1850. He caught a cold on a country walk that year, and after a short illness, he died at home at Rydal Mount of pleurisy on 23 April 1850. His funeral was held on 27 April 1850 in St. Oswald's Church, Grasmere, and he was buried in the graveyard near the yew trees he had planted. 

Although Wordsworth had been the Poet Laureate of England since 1843, he was no longer writing new verse. As Samantha Matthews notes, when Wordsworth died, most contemporary newspapers and periodicals made little of the event (35). Yet, the public who had long revered Wordsworth in life turned in grave into a "shrine for actual and imagined pilgrimage" (35). 

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Bibliography

Matthews, Samantha. "Wordsworth's Mortal Remains." The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 34, no. 1, 2003, pp. 35-39, doi:10.1086/TWC24044918.