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  • Chapter 8 - A Terrorist in the Making: 1774–1816

  • from Part Three - Thistlewood: His Story
  • Vic Gatrell, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Conspiracy on Cato Street
    Published online:
    06 April 2022
    Print publication:
    12 May 2022, pp 167-185

  • Summary

    The chapter charts what we know of Thistlewood’s early Lincolnshire years, his character and appearance, his gentlemanly status and modest wealth, his fecklessness and gambling, the birth of his illegitimate son Julian, and his marriages – particularly to Susan, who stayed with him to the end.It follows his increasing radicalisation after the family’s arrival in London in 1811 and his joining Evans’s Society of Spencean Philanthropists in 1814.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Maggie McKinley
  • Book:
    Norman Mailer in Context
    Published online:
    05 August 2021
    Print publication:
    26 August 2021, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    Ths introduction provides a brief biography of Norman Mailer, addressing his upbringing, his education, his family life, his marriages, his rise to fame as a writer and cultural critic, his political activism and involvement, his honors and awards, and the controversies that swirled around his public and personal life.