William Hone

Standard Name: Hone, William

Connections

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Publishing	Mary Cowden Clarke	MCC makes mention in her autobiography of some but not all of her many periodical writings. After her pieces for William Hone 's The Table Book, her earliest publication seems to have been in...
Textual Production	Mary Cowden Clarke	Following her marriage on 5 July 1828, MCC was determined to earn some contribution to our family income. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 47 In pursuit of this goal she wrote an essay, My Arm Chair, and submitted it...
Textual Production	Hannah More	The year 1816 saw strained political circumstances in Britain, when the end of the Napoleonic wars brought unemployment, rising prices, and (in the opinion of the government) the threat of revolution. HM was called on...

Timeline

26 June 1815

Elizabeth Fenning , an Irish servant in London, aged just twenty-two, was hanged for attempted murder, by poisoned dumplings, of her male employer and his son and daughter-in-law.

Barrell, John. “Like Unruly Children in a Citizenship Class”. London Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2005, pp. 23-5.

January 1817

The Prince Regent , on his way to open Parliament , was the target of (probably) a stone which broke the window of the state coach; like a similar missile hurled at his father on...

May 1817

Opposition publisher William Hone was arrested for blasphemous libel on the strength of three political pamphlets that parodied the Book of Common Prayer.

Barrell, John. “Like Unruly Children in a Citizenship Class”. London Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2005, pp. 23-5.

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