209. To John Thelwall (14 October 1797)

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Keyword(s):  
John Thelwall

John Thelwall: A Free Man Confronts the Law

Romanticism ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bindman
Keyword(s):  
The Law ◽  
John Thelwall

Copenhagen House

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Right ◽  
John Thelwall ◽  
London Corresponding Society

This image depicts a public meeting of more than 100,000 people at Copenhagen Fields, Islington, called by the London Corresponding Society on 12 November 1795. The figure on the right, brandishing a clenched fist, is John Thelwall, the political reformer, who had been imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason the previous year.

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