Francis Place

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Place, Francis

Born Nov. 3, 1771, in London; died there Jan. 1, 1854. English political figure and bourgeois radical.

A garment worker as a youth, Place was active in workers’ associations in 1793 and 1794 and was a member of the London Corresponding Society from 1794 to 1797. In 1800 he started his own business. He enjoyed some influence among the workers as a defender of the freedom of workers’ associations in the 1820’s, and he played an active role in the electoral reform movement of 1832. In 1838 he took part in the drafting of the People’s Charter of the chartist movement; however, he subsequently abandoned chartism and assumed a hostile attitude toward it.

REFERENCE

Wallas, G. The Life of F. Place. New York, 1919.

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Calhoun nicely highlights the contributions of such advocates as Thomas Wooler, Richard Carlile, and Francis Place.

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The third, 'Work', is again centred on people: William Beckford (commerce), Francis Place (industry and labour), Eliza Haywood (print, pictures and the professions).

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Sarah Jones, The Dining Room (Francis Place) I, 1997 [umlaut] Sarah Jones, courtesy Maureen Palely, London; inset, Sarah Lucas, Self Portrait with Mug of Tea 1993 [umlaut] Sarah Lucas

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He also uses the loaded and anachronistic word 'terrorism' and, in my view, misinterprets the quotation from Francis Place. Since hanging was a judicial punishment at the time, Place seems to be implying that 'in a well-ordered community' the framers of repressive legislation would be hanged as criminals, i.e.

Provoking Paranoia

In Part One, "The Enlightenment," he describes the new "republic of letters" and the new "men of letters," and in Part Two, "Marginalia," he examines contesting elements in the Revolutionary-Romantic formation of Literature, including (in the terminology of the 1790s)--"the poorer sort" (principally "writers sprung from the people" such as Francis Place, Thomas Spence, and those in the London Corresponding Society), "masculine women" (principally Mary Wollstonecraft, but also Mary Hays), and "Oriental literature" (principally Sir William Jones and his circle).

Paul Keen. The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere

Often taken for a Dissenter who was seemingly not married in church, he shared London lodgings with Francis Place, described by Winchester as 'mysterious' and not graced with a footnote.

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In Dining Room (Francis Place) (I), 1997, a portrait of an archetypal Victorian father glowers at the impudent intruders.

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For some members of his audience, of course, this very freshness will be something of an affront, as they wonder whether British polygamy is really so much more important to the Victorian sexual psyche than is syphilis, or whether Francis Place is genuinely the pivotal figure he appears here.

Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality and The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes