John Thelwall Books
The peripatetic
"John Thelwall (1764-1834) was one of the most famous English Jacobins of the eighteenth century. A self-educated poet, novelist, journalist, and politician, Thelwall was a key figure in the democr...
Read MorePoems written in close confinement in the Tower and Newgate, under a charge of high treason
"Along with Hardy, Horne Took and other leading British radicals, Thelwall was arrested in May 1794, taken to the Tower, and later charged with High Treason. If convicted, they stood to be hanged,...
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