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(2016) Nineteenth-century radical traditions, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Remembering radicalism on the midlands turnpike
George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett
Ruth Livesey
pp. 85-112
On 1 March 1820, William Cobbett drove up the Coventry to Hinckley turnpike road in a hired post-chaise, past Griff House and then on through the village of Chilvers Coton (where he must have stopped to pay a toll) into Nuneaton.In these same weeks of March 1820, the surveyor and land agent Robert Evans moved his family—complete with his four-month-old daughter Mary Ann (known later as novelist George Eliot)—into Griff House, which overlooks the same turnpike road, travelled several times a day by the long-distance stage and mail coaches from Birmingham and Warwick to Leicester and back. Here the Evans family would remain for the next twenty years.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59706-9_5
Full citation:
Livesey, R. (2016)., Remembering radicalism on the midlands turnpike: George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett, in J. Bristow & J. Mcdonagh (eds.), Nineteenth-century radical traditions, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 85-112.
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