Dec 23, 2009
James Edward Oglethorpe | James Edward Oglethorpe
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Knight Blackburn
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1696–1785
- Setting: London, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida
- Principal Characters: James Edward Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Sir Robert Walpole, John Perceval, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Samuel Johnson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Colonies or colonization, South or Southerners, Native Americans or American Indians, Eighteenth century, Politicians, Military life or service, Biography, Battles, Governors
- Locales: Georgia, London, England, South Carolina, Florida
Form and Content
Joyce Knight Blackburn has organized James Edward Oglethorpe
into four significant eras in the life of the founder of Georgia. Part
1 opens with Oglethorpe as a student at the University of Oxford
examining his own position as a Jacobite under the rule of the
recently crowned George I. Blackburn places Oglethorpe in a historical
context and begins to disclose his personality by creating vignettes
based on events in his early life. Much of the first portion of the
book focuses on his election as a Tory to the House of Commons, his
investigation of...
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