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Anna Wheeler
(1785–1848)Closely associated with Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler was a radical feminist and an Irish Protestant. A keen advocate of women's rights, she wrote that ‘with the emancipation of women ...
Robert Owen
(1771–1858)Welsh social reformer. Owen is best remembered as a campaigner against the abuses of the industrial revolution, and for the model cotton factory he set up in New Lanark. In political ...
Saint-Simonians
The followers of a French social and philosophical movement founded in the mid-1820s that advocated fraternal cooperation and the reorientation of society towards the poorer classes. Named after the ...
socialism
An economic system in which the means of production are controlled by the state. Also known as socialist economy. Contrast capitalism. See also marxism.
Thomas De Quincey
(1785–1859),ran away from Manchester Grammar School to the homeless wanderings in Wales and London which he was to describe in Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822). He afterwards went to ...
Thompson, William (1775–1833) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
(1775–1833),
socialist and feminist writer, a key intellectual influence on British *Owenism, on *trade union and
Thompson, William (1775–1833) Reference library
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
William Thompson was born in Cork and died at Middle Farm near Rosscarberry, West Cork on 28 March 1833 due
Thompson, William (1785–1833) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
(1785–1833),
socialist reformer and author. Born in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, he established an ill-fated agrarian co-operative on
Thompson, William (1775–1833) Reference library
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
Thompson was born in Cork in 1775, the only son of Mr and Mrs John Thompson of Cork City,
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