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In 1800, Cobbett completed a long-anticipated return to England. Two years earlier, he had written to Edward Thornton, ‘[W]nether I shall escape the scourge that continually hangs over us here, I know not; but, if I do, a few years will most certainly see me once more in dear Old England, far distant from yellow fevers and universal suffrage’.1 Having escaped the fever of democracy, and begun the decade as a celebrated anti-Jacobin, however, he would end it as one of the most prominent opponents of the government.
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Grande, J. (2014). William Windham and the Hampshire Hog. In: William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380081_3
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