William Hazlitt

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Standard Name: Hazlitt, William

Connections

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Friends, Associates Mary Bryan
MB approached Sir Walter Scott on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...
Textual Production Mary Bryan
After her second marriage MB entertained a wholly new project, the writing of a book of tales and verses designed for children. For this too she solicited Scott's help and patronage, after deciding to shy...
Textual Features Mary Bryan
She wrote him long letters, discussing his work and opinions as well as her own, in an elaborately parenthetical and breathless style. The first extant letter begins, Will you pity—I have said—or will you not...
Education Bryher
Her favourite edition, adapted by Isabelle de Montolieu (who had first translated Wyss's German into French in 1814), omitted most of the sermons from the book, and emphasized the adventures.
Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins.
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This text, along with...
Publishing Susanna Centlivre
It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester,
Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot.
1 (no. 1): 4
with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...
Literary responses Susanna Centlivre
SC is said to have made a very good living from the theatre in the later years of her career, and to have cannily invested her savings in portable property like jewellery and silverware.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Friends, Associates Mary Cowden Clarke
In addition to meeting Dickens as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC and her husband met William Hazlitt through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt , and...
Friends, Associates Eliza Fenwick
Other more or less radical friends of EF included Thomas Holcroft , Anne Plumptre , Elizabeth Benger , Jane Porter , Henry Crabb Robinson , Charles and Mary Lamb , and their friend Sarah Stoddart
Friends, Associates Leigh Hunt
While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH received as visitors Maria Edgeworth , William Hazlitt , Jeremy Bentham ,...
Literary responses Anna Brownell Jameson
Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt , Coleridge , and Schlegel .
Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, pp. 41-57.
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Friends, Associates John Keats
Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke . Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt , then Percy and Mary Shelley and William Hazlitt .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Health Mary Lamb
Mary herself, her brother Charles, and the general public all accepted that at the moment of the killing she had not known what she was doing. Charles was relieved from nameless fears when a week...
Friends, Associates Mary Lamb
The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey , William Hazlitt , and Thomas De Quincey . In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin , Thomas Manning
Travel Mary Lamb
Next summer they visited James Burney (brother of Frances) and his family on the Isle of Wight. In 1804 they economised by going no further than Richmond in Surrey. In June 1807 they...
Reception Hannah More
From her youth, HM tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four...

Timeline

1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...

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1798

Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.

10 December 1806: Charles Lamb's farce Mr H— opened at Drury...

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10 December 1806

Charles Lamb 's farceMr H— opened at Drury Lane . Its dashing coxcomb protagonist cuts a swathe through the ladies at Bath until it comes out that his name is Hogsflesh, when they drop him hurriedly.

Probably October 1807: William Hazlitt published A Reply to the...

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Probably October 1807

William Hazlitt published A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.

By May 1816: William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded,...

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By May 1816

William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded, and published The Life of Thomas Holcroft, which had been left unfinished when the radical Thomas Holcroft died.

1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...

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1818

William Hazlitt published A View of the English Stage.

13 January 1818: William Hazlitt delivered the first of eight...

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13 January 1818

William Hazlitt delivered the first of eight talks which were published as Lectures on the English Poets.

Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...

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Early 1818

William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.

1 November 1818: William Hazlitt gave the first lecture in...

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1 November 1818

William Hazlitt gave the first lecture in his series entitled Lectures on the English Comic Writers.

April 1821: William Hazlitt published the first volume...

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April 1821

William Hazlitt published the first volume of Table Talk, a collection of essays.

May 1823: William Hazlitt published his scandalously...

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May 1823

William Hazlitt published his scandalously eroticLiber Amoris.

1825: William Hazlitt published The Spirit of the...

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1825

William Hazlitt published The Spirit of the Age, a history of the present of the Romantic period.

18 November 1827: William Hazlitt, in The Examiner, attacked...

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18 November 1827

William Hazlitt , in The Examiner, attacked what he called the Dandy School of novelists like Theodore Hook ; he used the phrase which originated the term silver forknovel.

Texts

Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft. Oxford University Press, 1926.
Hazlitt, William. The Collected Works of William Hazlitt. Editor Howe, Percival Presland, J. M. Dent, 1930.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. The Life of Thomas Holcroft. Editor Colby, Elbridge, Constable, 1925.
Hazlitt, William. The Spirit of the Age. H. Colborne, 1825.