William Cobbett [Peter Porcupine]

(1763-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 NRA: Cobbett, William (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher DNB: Cobbett, William (1763-1835), political writer and farmer LBT ID: WiCobbe1835 VIAF ID: 101963169 LOC ID: n80039737	B/BAP: 1763-03-09 DIED: 1835-06-18
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English journalist and populist social critic; author of Rural Rides (1829).
REFERENCES TO William Cobbett [Peter Porcupine]: Robert Southey to John Rickman, 20 November 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 18 November 1807 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Whitbread to Thomas Creevey, 25 September 1808 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 21 January 1810 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Written by Himself” in Monthly Magazine NS 7 (April 1810) 243-48 Found 1: ¶ Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 28 November 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 28 November 1810 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, February 1811 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [1812] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 18 May 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Henry Holland to John Whishaw, 12 August 1812 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 6 Robert Southey to Neville White, 25 January 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 17 November 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 29 November 1815 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Backhouse to William Jerdan, 7 December 1816 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to William Smith, M.P., 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 18 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 4 February 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 19 February 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830, “The Courier and The Wat Tyler” in The Examiner (30 March 1817) 194-97 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ n1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 2 April 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Extraordinary Case of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (11 May 1817) 236-37 Found 1: ¶ 12 Thomas Moore to Leigh Hunt, 21 January 1818 in “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (13 January 1831) 449-51 Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 5 April 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Terrot, Charles Hughes, 1790-1872, Common Sense: a Poem (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1819) Verse 2: p. 28a p. 28a Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 12 January 1819 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 19 February 1819 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 5 “The Tent: Bristol Hunt and Hampstead Hunt” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (September 1819) 639-42 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 January 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 295b Sydney Smith to Edward Davenport, 3 January 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Callis Western to Thomas Creevey, 29 October 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 15 April 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Caroline Lamb to William Godwin, 15 May 1821 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 [John Galt], “On the Personalities of the Whigs” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 10 (September 1821) 217-21 Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 27 January 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VII Verse 2: p. 178-1 p. 178-1 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 1: ¶ 27 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 17 (February 1825) 131-51 Verse 2: p. 144a p. 144a Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 2 October 1825 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 [William Hazlitt], “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 2: ¶ 190 ¶ 191 The Examiner—the Author’s Imprisonment. Found 1: ¶ 105 Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872, “Sketches of Contemporary Authors. Mr. Cobbett” in The Athenaeum 1 (12 February 1828) 97-99 Found 6: ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Monthly Review S3 7 (March 1828) 300-12 Found 1: ¶ 16 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 6 Life of Byron: 1820 Verse 1: p. 295b Robert Southey to Magaret Holford Hodson, 10 September 1830 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Pot versus Kettle” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (December 1830) 543-42 Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 20 December 1830 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, 3 January 1803 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (13 January 1831) 449-51 Found 1: ¶ 2 “[Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. Continued]” in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (15 January 1831) 38-40 Found 1: ¶ 13 Sydney Smith to Colonel Charles Fox, 19 February 1831[?] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter X. 1808 Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 19 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 2 February 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. 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