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Amelia Opie

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Amelia Opie, née Alderson (12 November 17692 December 1853), was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828. [1]

32 relations: Abolitionism, Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, Anna Gurney, Anti-Slavery International, Benjamin Haydon, Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Cromer, Edward Hall Alderson, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, George Borrow, Germaine de Staël, Gilbert Imlay, Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich, Henry Perronet Briggs, John Horne Tooke, John Opie, John Philip Kemble, Joseph John Gurney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Multiracial, National Portrait Gallery, London, North Norfolk, Norwich, Priscilla Buxton, Quakers, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Romanticism, Sarah Siddons, Walter Scott, West Indian, William Godwin, World Anti-Slavery Convention.

Abolitionism

Abolitionism is a general term which describes the movement to end slavery.

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Abolitionism in the United Kingdom

Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.

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Anna Gurney

Anna Gurney (1795–1857) was an English scholar and philanthropist, a member of the Gurney family of Norfolk.

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Anti-Slavery International

Anti-Slavery International is an international non-governmental organization, registered charity and a lobby group, based in the United Kingdom.

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Benjamin Haydon

Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 178622 June 1846) was an English painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits.

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Cecilia Lucy Brightwell

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell (1811–1875), known to her contemporaries as Lucy Brightwell, was an English etcher and author, mostly of volumes of short biographies intended for young people.

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Cromer

Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.

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Edward Hall Alderson

Sir Edward Hall Alderson (baptised 11 September 1787 – 27 January 1857) was an English lawyer and judge whose many judgments on commercial law helped to shape the emerging British capitalism of the Victorian era.

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Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford

Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (23 July 1765 – 2 March 1802 in Woburn, Bedfordshire, baptised 20 August 1765 at St Giles in the Fields) was an English aristocrat and Whig politician, responsible for much of the development of central Bloomsbury.

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George Borrow

George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel books based on his own experiences in Europe.

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Germaine de Staël

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker; 22 April 176614 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

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Gilbert Imlay

Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat.

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Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich

The Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Chatham Street, Norwich, Norfolk, England, where many of the city's Quakers were buried including the writer Amelia Opie.

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Henry Perronet Briggs

Henry Perronet Briggs RA (1793 – 18 January 1844) was an English painter of portraits and historical scenes.

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John Horne Tooke

John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812), known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the name of his friend William Tooke to his own making his surname "Horne Tooke", was an English clergyman, politician, and philologist.

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John Opie

John Opie (16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807) was a Cornish historical and portrait painter.

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John Philip Kemble

John Philip Kemble (1 February 1757 – 26 February 1823) was an English actor.

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Joseph John Gurney

Joseph John Gurney (2 August 1788 – 4 January 1847) was a banker in Norwich, England and a member of the Gurney family of that city.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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North Norfolk

North Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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Norwich

Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.

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Priscilla Buxton

Priscilla Buxton (25 February 1808 – 18 June 1852) was a British slavery abolitionist.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Sarah Siddons

Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh-born actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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West Indian

A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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World Anti-Slavery Convention

The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Opie

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