He had been ill a great deal during his last years, and had in the sermon that was later printed as Deaths Duell (as his biographer Izaak Walton
put it) preach't his own Funeral Sermon...
Education
Catharine Parr Traill
Izaak Walton
's The Compleat Angler was an influential early text; CPT
kept her father's copy with her always.
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Meteyard
This illustrated story of a young girl's childhood and education has some autobiographical elements (Howitt calls it her own early life),
qtd. in
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955.
188
including the profession of the army surgeon father of the eponymous character...
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Reception
Sarah Orne Jewett
Jewett wrote both diaries and letters from an early age, and was an avid reader. Reminiscing, she said she remembered thinking that if I could write just as Miss Thackeray
did in her charming stories...
Timeline
19 February 1640: LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously...
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19 February 1640
LXXX Sermons by John Donne
was posthumously published; it included the earliest printed text of Izaak Walton
's biography of him.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...
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2 February 1651
The second of Izaak Walton
's biographies appeared, that of Sir Henry Wotton
, as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
20 May 1653: Izaak Walton published The Compleat Angler;...
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20 May 1653
Izaak Walton
published The Compleat Angler; there was a second, enlarged edition in 1655.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.