Male : Political Writer, Reformer, Writer on Agriculture and traveller. Founded the Weekly Political Register (1802-35), and The Porcupine (violently anti-French). He became a bookseller in Philadelphia and in London

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Farnham, Surrey

Date of Birth : 1762 Date of Death : 1835 Age : 73

Other Work : MP for Oldham in 1832

Education : Self-taught

1793-1800
The Soldier's Friend, or Considerations on the Late Pretended Augmentation of the Subsistence
of the Private Soldiers (1793 London ? 2nd Ed) - written by a Subaltern. Anon
Observations on the Emigration of a Martyr to the Cause of Liberty (1794) - pamphlet
Observations on the Emigration of Dr Joseph Priestley (1794) - [probably same as above title]
Le Tuteur Anglois (1795 Philadelphia)
The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1795 Philadelphia) (1796)

1801-1810
Porcupine's Works - a Faithful Picture of the United States (1801 London) - 12 vols
Letters on the Peace with Bonaparte (1802)
Political Register (1802-35) - 88 vols
[ A popular radical review weekly edited by Cobbett. Reflecting Cobbett's views it often
brought him into conflict with the government of the day]
The Political Proteus (1804)
The Life of William Cobbett : By Himself (1809 for T Purdy, London 2nd Ed)

1811-1820
Cobbett's Paper Against Gold. Nos 1-15 (1815 Wm Molineux, London)
Letters on the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain (1815)
Mr Cobbett's Address to His Countrymen (1817)
A Grammar of the English Language (1818 for Thomas Dolby, London) (1818 NY)
(1819 London for the author. 3rd Ed)
A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States of America (1818-19)
(1822 for J M Cobbett, London. 3rd Ed)

1821-1825
The American Gardener (1821 C Clements, London)
Cobbett's Sermons (1822)
Cobbett's Collective Commentaries (1822)
Cottage Economy (1821-2, 1822 Clement) - 7 parts (1823 London) (1824 Gould, NY)
A French Grammar (1824 Charles Clement, London)
A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland (1824 Clement)
(1829 for the author, London - 2 vols)
The Woodlands : or a Treatise on the Preparing of Ground for Planting
(1825-8 for Author, London)

1826-1830
The Poor Man's Friend (1826)
A Treatise on Cobbett's Corn (1828 London)
Twelve Sermons (1828 Author, London. New Ed)
Paper Against Gold, or The History and Mystery of the Bank of England (1828 Wm Cobbett, London)
The English Gardener, or a Treatise on the Situation .. of Kitchen Gardens
(1829 London) - [a revision of the American Gardener]
Advice to Young Men, and Incidentally to Young Women in the Middle & Higher Ranks of Life
(1829-30) - 14 parts
The Emigrant's Guide (1829)
History of the Regency and Reign of King George IV (1830 Wm Cobbett, London)
Rural Rides - 1821-34 (1830) - previously publ in the Political Register
Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions (1830)
Rural Rides in the Southern Counties (1830 Wm Cobbett, London) - reprinted from Register 1822-6
[From 1821 he travelled England recording the maltreatment of agricultural
labourers and the mismanagement of farms]
(1853 London. New Ed)

1831-1835
A Spelling Book and Stepping Stone to English Grammar (1831)
Cobbett's Manchester Lectures ... in Support of His 14 Reform Propositions
(1832 No 11 Bolt St, London)
A Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales (1832 London)
Cobbett's Tour in Scotland & the Four Northern Counties of England in 1832 (1833 11 Bolt Court)
A New French and English Dictionary (1833 London, 11 Bolt Court, Fleet Street)
Life of Andrew Jackson (1834 London, 11 Bolt Court, Fleet Street)
Paper against Gold, or The History & Mystery of the Bank of England (1834 John Doyle, London)
Three Lectures on the Political State of Ireland (1834)
Cobbett's Legacy to Labourers ... In Six Letters (1834 the Author, London)
Cobbett's Legacy to Parsons (1835)
Selections from Cobbett's Political Works (1835) - edited by J M & J P Cobbett

1836 Onwards
Cobbett's Legacy to Peel (1836)
The Doom to the Tithes (1836)
A Grammar of the English Language (1838 A Cobbett, London)
Cobbett's Legacy to the Lords (1863) - edited by Wm Cobbett jnr
Cottage Economy (1916 Ed G K Chesterton)
Selections (Ed A M D Hughes) (1923 Oxford)
Cottage Economy (1926 Peter Davies) - Eric Gill
Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine with Other Records of His Early Career
in England & America
(1927 Nonesuch Press) - 1800
Rural Rides - together with Tours in Scotland & Letters from Ireland (Ed M & G D H Cole)
(1930 Peter Davies) - 3 vols. 1000 - John Nash
The Progress of a Ploughboy (Ed William Reitzel) (1933, 1947)

READING
William Hazlitt : In His The Spirit of the Age (1825)
The Life of William Cobbett, Esq, late MP for Oldham (1835 Wm Willis, Manchester)
(1835 John Duncombe, London)
E I Carlyle : Cobbett - A Study of His Life as Shown in His Writings (1904)
Lewis Meville : The Life and Letters of Wiliam Cobbett (1913 JL, London) - 2 vols
G D H Cole : The Life of Cobbett (1924, 1947)
G K Chesterton : William Cobbett (1925)
M L Pearl : Cobbett - A Bibliographical Account of His Life & Times (1953 Oxford)
(Ed) William Rietzel : Autobiography of William Cobbett
George Spater : William Cobbett (1982) - 2 vols
Daniel Green : Great Cobbett (1983)
Denis Knight : Cobbett in Ireland - A Warning to England (1984 Lawrence & Wishart)
Anthony Burton : William Cobbett. Englishman - A Biography (1997 Aurum £18.95)