 During Summer 1794, Southey attempted to find a publisher for "John of Arc" while taking up "The Fall of Robespierre", a poetic drama about the French Revolution, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.During 1794, Southey began to plan with Coleridge and others about a political system that they would start in America called Pantisocracy.He needed to get money for the project and he contacted Richard Cruttwell on 19 July 1794 to publish "Joan of Arc" for that end.