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Francis Wrangham. Wotdsworth's friend. suffered repercussions from university authorities for his support of liberal parliamentary reform in the 1790s.
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Why is it important?
It gives another detailed example of how an entire generation of young intellectuals were silenced by Pitts policies of silencing domestic dissent.
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This essay supplements the fifteen cases of repression detailed in my 2013 book, "Unusual Suspects."
kenneth johnston
Indiana University Bloomington
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This page is a summary of: Unusual Suspect, Unlikely Hero: A Life in the Reign of Alarm Francis ‘Ornament’ Wrangham (1769–1842), Romanticism, October 2014, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/rom.2014.0187.
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