Penguin Classics Rural Rides

by William Cobbett, Ian Dyck (Editor)

Overview

Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively accounts of rural life in the context of Cobbett's political and social beliefs and reveals the volume as his platform for rural radical reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140435795
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	06/28/2005
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

William Cobbett (1763-1835) spent his youth as a farm worker and gardener. He lived in revolutionary France and Philadelphia where, as 'Peter Porcupine', he rose to fame as a pro-British and anti-Jacobin journalist. Later, back in England, he became a Radical and promoted the cause of reform in politics and agriculture. Ian Dyck is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. He is the author of 'William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture' (CUP, 1992).

Table of Contents

	From Petersfield to Kensington	1
	Down the Vale of the Avon in Wiltshire	34
	From Salisbury to Warminster, from Warminster to Frome, from Frome to Devizes, and from Devizes to Highworth	58
	From Highworth to Cricklade, and thence to Malmsbury	80
	From Malmsbury, in Wiltshire, through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire	100
	From Ryall, in Worcestershire, to Berghclere, in Hampshire	120
	From Berghclere to Lyndhurst, in the New Forest	143
	From Lyndhurst to Beaulieu Abbey; thence to Southampton and Weston; thence to Botley, Allington, West End, near Hambledon; and thence to Petersfield, Thursley, and Godalming	167
	From Weston, near Southampton, to Kensington	181
	To Tring, in Hertfordshire	206
	Northern Tour	216
	Eastern Tour	220
	Midland Tour	260
	Tour in the West	276
	Progress in the North	277
	Notes	299
	Index	323