John Matthews

Standard Name: Matthews, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Maria Falconbridge
Taking the form of letters to a female friend, AMF 's book makes use of fairly intimate personal details. Her preface nicely re-arranges the conventional non-intention to publish. She says she had always meant to...

Timeline

6 November 1719: A nineteen-year-old journeyman, John Matthews,...

Building item

6 November 1719

A nineteen-year-old journeyman, John Matthews , was hanged for his part in printing the Jacobite tract Vox Populi, Vox Dei—the only such punishment under the Treason Act, 1707 (Royal Assent 1708).
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Texts

Disraeli, Benjamin. Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1815-1834. Editors Gunn, John Alexander Wilson et al., University of Toronto Press, 1982.