John Joseph Stockdale

Later, at school in London, she says she again learned nothing. At this school or another she was a fellow-pupil of the future writer Mary Stockdale , whose brother (by then a shrewd commercial...

MS 's brother John Joseph Stockdale , son and nephew of publishers, set up his own publishing firm in the West End of London, at 41 Pall Mall.

Both of Mary's brothers, John Joseph and William , also went into publishing.

One of her source texts was John Stockdale 's The History of the Inquisition, which like other English books on the topic was more concerned to demonstrate the dangers of Catholicism than the plight...

HW began, with the first instalment, to issue her Memoirs through John Joseph Stockdale : four volumes followed the more numerous, briefer instalments.

HW (or her publisher Stockdale ) expanded her Memoirs into an 8-volume edition, with new material by herself and others, and an index.

In about 1822 HW composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:...

The most important difference between the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson and their predecessors, the Sketches, was that the Memoirs were to give names in full. The contract between HW and Stockdale stipulated that he...

A question-mark hangs over HW 's entire authorship of the Memoirs (and of her later publications). In her preface to Clara Gazul she herself says that much in the Memoirs is not authentic, but was...

She said she wrote it in eight days.Chawton House Library has a copy of the first edition, available at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. A second edition followed the same year and one from the Navarre Society

The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, with anguished responses from ex-lovers and moralists, as well as from people in the book trade and people in HW 's own sex trade. Crowds...

About this time MS 's brother printed derogatory comments about her, which did not spare her writing.

The autobiography is uninformative and self-approving. A patriotic poem on the king's Jubilee celebrates England as a land of happy peasants, as against the whole countries deluged with the blood of man elsewhere in Europe...

Stockdale the publisher, newly released from the Fleet and operating from a new address in St James's Square, issued a scandal series, Stockdale's Budget, which some attributed to HW .

His second work of fiction, St Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance (published by John Joseph Stockdale , brother of the poet and miscellaneous writer Mary Stockdale ), presumably appeared in print before 25 March...