The Life of Thomas Paine
With a History of his Literary, Political and Religious Career in America, France, and England

Published in 1892, this two-volume biography of Thomas Paine (1737–1809) confirmed his importance in the American and French revolutions.

Moncure Daniel Conway (Author)

9781108045353, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 March 2012

408 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907), the son of a Virginian plantation-owner, became a Unitarian minister, but his anti-slavery views made him controversial. He later became a freethinker, and following the outbreak of the Civil War, which deeply divided his own family, he left the United States for England in 1863. This two-volume biography of Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was published in 1892, and was followed by a four-volume edition of his works, which did much to inspire a reassessment of Paine's importance in the 'age of revolutions'. Conway clearly identified with Paine's radicalism as well as his activities on both sides of the Atlantic. Volume 1 covers his early life, his arrival in America in 1774 and involvement with the cause of American independence, and the subsequent war. In 1787 he returned to Europe, where he witnessed the fall of the Bastille, and published Rights of Man.

Preface
1. Early influences
2. Early struggles
3. Domestic trouble
4. The New World
5. Liberty and equality
6. Common Sense
7. Under the banner of independence
8. Soldier and secretary
9. French aid, and the Paine–Deane controversy
10. A story by Gouverneur Morris
11. Cause, country, self
12. A journey to France
13. The muzzled ox treading out the grain
14. Great Washington and poor Paine
15. Pontifical and political inventions
16. Returning to the old home
17. A British lion with an American heart
18. Paine's letters to Jefferson in Paris
19. The key of the Bastille
20. The Rights of Man
21. Founding the European Republic
22. The right of evolution
23. The deputy for Calais in the Convention
24. Outlawed in England.

Subject Areas: Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ]