John Hawkesworth

Standard Name: Hawkesworth, John

Connections

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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 William...
Family and Intimate relationships	Radagunda Roberts	RR owned a miniature of Dr John Hawkesworth , and china which he had given her. She carefully preserved letters he had written to her (one of which survives at Harvard ) and papers connected...
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...
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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	A. Woodfin	She learns to condemn her parents' treatment of her when she boards in a family who deliberately favour the ugly, deformed one of their young twins, to redress the balance. She feels a great relief...
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, Yale University Press, 1969. 339, 492
Publishing	Mary Masters	This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) qtd. in Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 409-10 included Samuel Johnson , Mrs Gardiner of Snow-Hill, Thomas Birch , a John Cockburne who may well have...
Publishing	Elizabeth Carter	The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. The original press run of 1,018 copies had to be supplemented with a further 250. First of several more editions was the Dublin one of the...
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, 1990. 237 Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale, Yale University Press, 1969. 330
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, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92. 86
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 The AdventurerReview of English Studies, Vol. n.s. 25 , No. 98, 1974, pp. 137-51. 142-3 Hawkesworth, John, editor. The Adventurer. 4th ed., C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, and 4 others, 1762, 4 vols. 1: 233-6
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, 1990. 346
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...
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...

Timeline

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 dramatic adaptation of Aphra Behn 's Oroonoko, making it for the first time a solidly anti-slavery text.

Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.

, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66.

47, 48, 53-5, 57, 59

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.

Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.

2: 1023

Texts

Warton, Jane. “Politeness a necessary auxiliary to knowledge and virtue”. Adventurer, edited by John Hawkesworth, Vol.

, 1753, pp. 144-50.

Hawkesworth, John, editor. The Adventurer. 4th ed., C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, and 4 others, 1762, 4 vols.