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71:. He immediately involved himself in controversial pamphleteering. Some pseudonymous opponents, John Not and Job Nott, used dialect and purported to be artisans. Nott is now thought to have been John Morfitt (died 1809), a local barrister. Edwards suffered, after Priestley, from some mockery for a lack of
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The reform and
Unitarian tradition of Priestley was carried on through institutions such as the Birmingham Book Club, and the Sunday Society (later Brotherly Society) group of teachers. Edward Corn, warden of the New Meeting, was linked to political radicals. In 1792, Edwards was on a distribution
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Views of the Ruins of the
Principal Houses Destroyed During the Riots at Birmingham. Vues Des Ruines, Etc. [Plates Engraved by William Ellis After Drawings by P.H. Witton. With Descriptions in English and French by P.H. Witton and John
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Appearance of a Pamphlet, Intitled "A Reply to the Rev. Dr. Priestley's Appeal to the Public, on the Subject of the Riots in Birmingham." Being the Joint Production of the Principal Clergy of that Place and of Its
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Edwards brought
Coleridge, on an English tour in early 1796, to Birmingham, as a lecturer. Coleridge decided he should tone down the radical edge of what he said, so as not to have an adverse impact on Edwards's reputation. When
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then wrote to
Edwards, offering help to bring Coleridge to Liverpool, to work as a political journalist. Nothing came of that, since by August Coleridge had another opportunity in Derby, where
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wanted him to start a school. Roscoe in a further letter to
Edwards concluded that Coleridge would be better suited in Derby than Liverpool, "this mercantile slave-dealing place."
86:, they were able for three months to use an Independent chapel, in Carr's Lane. Then, obtaining a lease, they met to 1802 in an amphitheatre that became the Livery Street Chapel.
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Letters to the
British Nation: And to the Inhabitants of Every Other Country who May Have Heard of the Late Shameful Outrages Committed in this Part of the Kingdom. Part I.
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Letters to the
British Nation: And to the Inhabitants of Every Other Country who May Have Heard of the Late Shameful Outrages Committed in this Part of the Kingdom
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Protestant
Nonconformity: A Sketch of Its General History, with an Account of the Rise and Present State of Its Various Denominations in the Town of Birmingham
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did not have the reform politics associations that had arisen in other industrial areas of
England. Local nonconformist ministers linked to the
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The Object and the Conclusion of the Christian Minister's Mortal Life: a Sermon, Preached ... on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. John Edwards
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A Sermon Preached to the Society who Support the Sunday Evening Lecture in the Old Jewry, on the Evening of Dec. 5, 1805
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were arrested that year in Birmingham, Coleridge requested an article from Edwards, and published it in
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260:(1792). This work was a set of eight engravings by
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