Rural Rides (Annotated)

Rural Rides is William Cobbett's vivid record of journeys through southern and midland England in the 1820s, combining travel writing, political reportage, agricultural observation, and polemical satire. Written in a vigorous, plain-spoken prose that resists polite literary refinement, the book sets hedgerows, farms, cottages, markets, and parish life against the abstractions of finance, enclosure...