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101 Ideally, manufacturing should be spread throughout the country and integrated with farming. Women should be engaged in domestic industry and men in agriculture. In an article addressed to landowners ‘On the evils of collecting Manufacturers into great masses’, Cobbett entreated them to restore ‘the blessings of domestic manufacturing’ to their estates. ’ Conversely, he had little faith in parliament’s ability to effect any lasting improvement in the condition of the labouring classes. ’102 V The main impetus for the revival of paternal social thought in the 1820s was the popularization of the liberal laissez-faire philosophy.
73 Somewhat enigmatic, but indicative of the interplay between change and continuity in the 1820s, Cobbett’s paternal social outlook combined radicalism with conservatism. For the ideal society, he looked to the eighteenth-century and the existence of a predominantly rural, community-based, hierarchical and integrated social structure; a society where obedience, duties, obligations and reciprocal relations were paramount. 74 Yet, Cobbett was not so reactionary as to oppose all advances in technology.
On the death of his wife, James Sadler decided that it was time for his youngest son to learn more about the world beyond Doveridge. Sadler left home to join Benjamin in Leeds and, under his guidance, soon became acquainted with the world of trade and commerce. The two brothers operated a drapery business. 10 Sadler later married the Fentons’ eldest daughter, Ann. In time, both Michael and Benjamin were to become not only respected businessmen but prominent public figures in Leeds. In her biography of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell described a game played by Charlotte and her sisters, on a cold December evening in 1827.