William Cobbett

William Cobbett
William Cobbett
Lahir	9 Maret 1763 Farnham, Surrey, Inggris
Meninggal	18 Juni 1835 Normandy, Surrey, Inggris
Pekerjaan	Jurnalis
Karya terkenal	Rural Rides
Mempengaruhi G. K. Chesterton

William Cobbett (9 Maret 1763 – 18 Juni 1835) adalah seorang jurnalis dan politikus Britania Raya. Ia juga terpilih sebagai anggota parlemen untuk wilayah Oldham.

Pada awal kariernya, ia merupakan pendukung Raja dan Negara, namun nantinya ia bergabung dengan pergerakan radikal. Walaupun ia bukan seorang Katolik, ia mendukung Emansipasi Katolik di Britania. Ia telah menulis banyak polemik mengenai reformasi politik dan agama, namun karyanya yang paling dikenal adalah Rural Rides, yang masih dicetak hingga hari ini.

Publikasi

• (Inggris) Karya-karya William Cobbett di Proyek Gutenberg
• Cottage Economy
• Cobbett, William. (1822). Cottage Economy. C. Clement (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00407-7) Also at ISBN 0-9538325-0-3
• Cobbett, William. (1830). Rural Rides in the Counties. Cobbett (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00408-4) Also at ISBN 0-14-043579-4
• Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life
• A History of the Protestant Reformation In England and Ireland ISBN 0-89555-353-8
• Rural Rides - Complete text of book at A Vision of Britain through Time.
• Rural Rides - Chapter on Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire: To St. Albans, Through Edgware, Stanmore, and Watford, Returning by Redbourn, Hempstead, and Chesham. - June 1822.
• The Poor Man's Friend; or, Essays on the Rights and Duties of the Poor. (1829) at The McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
• A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and misdemeanors:from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations, vol. 4 of 21, compiled by Thomas Bayly Howell, London : T.C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. - Google Books
• The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, New York: Harper & Bros., 1834.
• A Year's Residence in the United States of America Printed by B. Bensley, Andover and published by the author, 183 Fleet Street, London, 1828 (based on his life in 1818 USA)
• Cobbett, William, A Grammar of the English Language, New York, 1832. Facsimile ed., introd Charlotte Downey and Flor Aarts, 1986, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1410-1.
• The Woodlands. 1825. From Google Book Search

Rujukan

• Ian Dyck, ‘Cobbett, William (1763–1835)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 23 July 2011.