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John Hawkesworth
Standard Name: Hawkesworth, John
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | It was frequently adapted and recycled. A French translation by Pierre Antoine de La Place
, 1745, sentimentalises the story, provides a happy ending, and adds the Histoire d'Imoinda. As a prose narrative Oroonoko... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. |
Publishing | Hester Mulso Chapone | Hester Mulso (later HMC
) contributed The Story of Fidelia to John Hawkesworth
's The Adventurer; it appeared as numbers 77-79, by Y. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 237 Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale University Press. 330 |
Publishing | Samuel Johnson | SJ
contributed essays to John Hawkesworth
's periodical The Adventurer (whose contributors also included Catherine Talbot
, Hester Mulso (later Chapone)
, and Jane Warton
). Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale University Press. 339, 492 |
Textual Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on... |
Friends, Associates | Radagunda Roberts | Though very little is known of RR
's life, she was well acquainted with at least one other woman writer: Frances Brooke
(whose son attended St Paul's while Roberts's brother was High Master, and who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Radagunda Roberts | |
Wealth and Poverty | Radagunda Roberts | She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth
's translation of Fénelon
's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William... |
Dedications | Radagunda Roberts | RR
published with her name and reference to her earlier translations. A Dublin edition, in two volumes like the London one, followed the same year: Letters written by a Peruvian Princess, published by |
Publishing | Radagunda Roberts | RR
's version of a novel by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
, The Triumph of Truth, or Memoirs of Mr. De La Villette, written at the request of John Hawkesworth
, was reviewed... |
Publishing | Mary Savage | John Hawkesworth
, having seen in manuscript MS
's poem on Oeconomy, was sufficiently impressed to print it, anonymously, in the Gentleman's Magazine. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 33 (1763): 558-9 Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 346 |
Publishing | Catherine Talbot | CT
almost certainly contributed the larger part of number 27 of John Hawkesworth
's periodical The Adventurer, which takes the form of a letter from Night. Fairer, David. “Authorship Problems in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>The Adventurer</span>”;. Review of English Studies, Vol. n.s. 25 , No. 98, pp. 137-51. 142-3 Hawkesworth, John, editor. The Adventurer. C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, and 4 others. 1: 233-6 |
Publishing | Jane Warton | JW
contributed an essay (unsigned, as was customary) to John Hawkesworth
's Adventurer: number 87. Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, pp. 84-92. 86 |
Timeline
7 November 1752-9 March 1754: The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited...
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7 November 1752-9 March 1754
The self-educated John Hawkesworth
edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson
's Rambler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1 December 1759: John Hawkesworth in turn adapted Thomas Southerne's...
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1 December 1759
John Hawkesworth
in turn adapted Thomas Southerne
's dramatic adaptation of Aphra Behn
's Oroonoko, making it for the first time a solidly anti-slavery text.
1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...
Writing climate item
1780
James Harrison
(hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
Texts
Warton, Jane. “Politeness a necessary auxiliary to knowledge and virtue”. Adventurer, edited by John Hawkesworth, Vol.
3
, pp. 144-50. Hawkesworth, John, editor. The Adventurer. C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, and 4 others, 1762.