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July 1797 - Aug 1797 |
Radical leader of the Society for Constitutional Information, John Thelwall, visits W. Wordsworth and Coleridge at Nether Stowey, and they act suspiciously enough (nightly "reconnaissances" and asking questions about navigating a river to the sea) to alarm servants and neighbors during the wartime scare of invasion from France. The government Home Office sends an informer in mid August (15th-16th) to investigate. |
*Radicalism |