Henry S. King

Standard Name: King, Henry S.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Hamilton King
At Rumbleton in Scotland, Harriet Baillie Hamilton married banker, publisher and India agent Henry Samuel King, a widower whose age was exactly double hers.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard, 1899.
2, 20-1
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Hamilton King
HHK was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking.
qtd. in
Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard, 1899.
21
One source suggests that her family was in all likelihood pleased to accept almost any husband for...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Teft
This, ET's answer to a proposition in verse, says she might have accepted Fido if she had won the lottery prize she had hoped for. He wrote a second reply in August, sounding wounded...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Sewell
When MS was sixty she began her writing career in earnest. She showed some of her poems to the publisher Henry S. King, whose opinion that This will do
qtd. in
Bayly, Mary. The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell. James Nisbet, 1889.
132, 141
encouraged her to...
Publishing Harriet Hamilton King
It grew to fifty pages, and according to most sources was privately printed around 1862 by her future husband Henry S. King. It later appeared in her first collection of poems (1869).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press, 1966.
428
Travel Harriet Hamilton King
Despite her lifelong interest in Italian nationalism, HHK's visit to Italy this year, accompanied by her husband, was apparently the only time she went there.
Linda A. Julian suggests that her visit was...
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Hamilton King
Henry Samuel King divided his estate, giving half to his children and half to his wife. In addition, HHK received the household belongings and £2,000.
Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard, 1899.
46

Timeline

16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...

Writing climate item

16 May 1871

Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co. at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul in 1877, it...

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