Like Unruly Children in a Citizenship Class
John Barrell: A hero for Howard, 21 April 2005
The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for a Free Press
by Ben Wilson.
Faber, 455 pp., £16.99, April 2005,0 571 22470 9 Show More
by Ben Wilson.
Faber, 455 pp., £16.99, April 2005,
“... and remained active in radical politics for the next thirty-odd years. At the age of 19 he married Sarah Johnson, his landlady’s daughter, and she brought him enough money to establish himself in Lambeth as a bookseller and stationer. He campaigned among other things for a new, more humane system of poor relief, improvement in the management of lunatic ... ”