Thomas Paine

HG was an American patriot who was nonetheless not happy about the war of independence; she described herself as a Whig. It is clear from her poetry that her Quaker pacifist beliefs were strongly felt...

Joseph Johnson did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More 's Village Politics and nearly three...

Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe (father of Mary Anne Jevons ) hailed MW in a poem satirising Burke. Appearing shortly before Tom Paine 's Rights of Man on 1 February 1791, the book...

To the same period of 1791 or a little later belongs Wey, Ned, Man!, one of SB 's best-remembered Cumberland ballads, in which, to a jaunty traditional tune, two farmers discuss Tom Paine 's...

At Easter 1651, in Hells Destruction, LED unleashed a flood of biblical rhetoric against Thomas Paine the printer, who had had her imprisoned for debt.

JS published an An Answer to Thomas Paine 's Third Part of The Age of Reason.

She said she had made notes towards this project, but thought the task too big for her (and that it would have had to be begun sooner). Burke had already attracted two indignant answers: Wollstonecraft

Her niece Matilda Betham-Edwards recorded that at fourteen she sat down to answer and refute Tom Paine 's political arguments.

SB composed a song, Wey, Ned, Man! (to the tune of Ranting, roaring Willie), which features two countrymen debating the pros and cons of Tom Paine 's Rights of Man.