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John Thelwall's The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is
a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and
sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the
revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts
his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry
Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in
a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their
lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul.
Combining political analysis with melodrama and flat-out farce,
Daughter expands the scope of the abolitionist novel, pushing the
argument beyond the slave trade to challenge empire and racial
superiority. Historical materials on Thelwall's life, the
abolitionist movement, and eighteenth-century educational theories
provide a detailed context for the novel.
Title: ALetter to H. Cline, on imperfect developments of the
faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic;
and on the treatment of impediments of speech.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
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British Library Thelwall, John; 1810. 8 . 1186.d.24.
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