Pioneers of Reform: Cobbett, Owen, Place, Shaftesbury, Cobden, Bright

affairs agitation Anti-Corn Law League Ashley became Bentham Benthamite brought cause century Chapter Chartist Cobbett Cobden and Bright Corn Law cotton Crimean War Dickens discontented Disraeli E. H. SHEPARD economic effective employers England English evils factory feeling force FRANCIS PLACE Free Trade Gladstone governing classes House of Commons human ideas Illustrated Industrial Revolution influence inspired interest interference labourers Lanark land later leader League learnt lived London Lord Manchester matter ment methods mill mind movement nation National Portrait Gallery once opinion Owen Owen's Palmerston Parliamentary passed paupers peace Peel Place political Poor Law position prison prosperity Radical Reform Bill Reform of Parliament Register repeal roused secure Shaftesbury social society speeches success sympathy things tion to-day took Tory towns Trade Unions vote wages William Cobbett workers working-class young