Anti-Corn Law League

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
politics	Isabella Banks	In late 1838 (the year that she had both opened her own school and joined the ManchesterMechanics' Institute in order to keep pursuing her own education), the seventeen-year-old Isabella Varley became a founding member...
politics	George Eliot	Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) sided with Robert Owen , John Bright , and their mutual friend Charles Bray , chairman of the local Anti-Corn Law League , in opposing the Corn Laws. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. 72
politics	Elizabeth Gaskell	The Gaskells distanced themselves from political movements of the day such as Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League . While many of her Unitarian friends were keen supporters of the latter, EG tried to remain...
politics	Harriet Martineau	She continued to support causes such as abolitionism and the Anti-Corn Law League , for which she undertook to write a tale in 1845. She did not have much sympathy for Italian unification (a cause...

Timeline

20 March 1839

The Anti-Corn Law League was founded.

Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854. Editors Raymond, Meredith B. and Mary Rose Sullivan, Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University, 1983, 3 vols.

3: 73, 80

Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.

127

February 1842

A grand bazaar organised by women raised £10,000 for the Anti-Corn Law League .

Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.

145

26 June 1846

The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel 's Conservative government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in...

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