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William Hazlitt

Male : Essayist and critic. Family moved to America 1783-1787. Returned and settled at Wem, in Shropshire. Married Sarah Stoddart in 1808. Married Isabella Bridgewater in 1824. Died of dysentry or cancer
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Maidstone, Kent

Date of Birth : 1778 Date of Death : 1830 Age : 52

Other Work : Freelance journalist
1805-1810
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action .. with Remarks on the System of Hartley & Helvetius
(1805 J Johnson) - Anon
Offered in 1999 for £480
Free Thoughts on Public Affairs
(1806 R Taylor) - Anon
An Abridgement of Abraham Tucker's 'Light of Nature Pursued'
(1807 J Johnson) - Anon
A Reply to the Essay on Population of Malthus
(1807 Longman) - Anon
The Eloquence of the British Senate : Parliamentary Speeches & Notes
(1807 Thomas Ostell, London) - 2 vols. Anon
(1807 Murray & Harding, London)
A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue
(1810 M J Godwin)

1811-1820
(Ed) Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft (1816 Longman) - 3 vols. Anon
The Round Table : A Collection of Essays of Literature, Men & Manners
(1817 Constable) - 2 vols. with Leigh Hunt
The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
(1817 Reynell for Hunter & Ollier)
(1818 Taylor & Hessey, London 2nd Ed)
A View of the English Stage, or a Series of Dramatic Criticisms
(1818 for Robert Stodart, Anderson & Chase)
(1821 John Warren, London)
Lectures on the English Poets
(1818 Taylor & Hessey) (1818 Dobson, Phila)
A Letter to William Gifford
(1819 John Miller)
Lectures on the English Comic Writers
(1819 Taylor & Hessey) (1819 Carey, Phila)
Political Essays with Sketches of Public Characters
(1819 William Hone)
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Queen Elizabeth
(1820 Stodart & Steuart)
(1821 John Warren 2nd Ed)

1821-1825
Table Talk, or Original Essays on Men and Manners
(1821 John Warren) (1822 Warren. 2nd Vol)
(1824 Colburn - 2 vols)
An Essay on the Spirit of Monarchy
(c1822 Minerva Press, Falmouth) - Anon
Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion
(1823 John Hunt, London) - Anon
Offered in 1999 for £450
Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucaults Maxims
(1823 Simpkin & Marshall) - Anon
(1837 Templeman, Miller, London. 2nd Ed)
British Galleries of Art
(1824 Whittaker, London)
Sketches of the Principal Picture Galleries in England
(1824 Taylor & Hessey, London) - Anon
Select British Poets, or New Elegant Extracts
(1824 Wm C Hall)
The Spirit of the Age, or Contemporary Portraits
(1825 Colburn) - Anon

1826-1830]
The Plain Speaker, or Opinions on Books, Men and Things
(1826 Colburn) - 2 vols
Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy
(1826 Hunt & Clarke) - Anon
Offered in 1998 for £275
Boswell Redivivus
(1827)
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte : Vols 1 & 2
(1828 Hunt & Clarke)
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte : Vols 3 & 4
(1830 Effingham Wilson)
Conversations of James Northcote
(1830 Colburn & Bentley)

1831-1850
The Character of W Cobbett MP
(1835 J Watson, London)
The Spirit of Monarchy by W Hazlitt : The Moral Effects of Aristocracy by Wm Godwin
(c1835 Wakelin, London)
Literary Remains
(1836 Saunders & Otley) - 2 vols
Painting and the Fine Arts
(1838 A & C Black, Edinburgh) - with B R Haydon
Sketches and Essays : Now First Collected by His Son
(1839 Templeman, London)
Criticisms on Art, and Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England
(1843)
(1856 Templeman 2nd Ed)
Criticisms on Art, and Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England : 2nd Series
(1844 Templeman)
(Ed) Hazlitt's Holiday Library (1844-5 Joseph Cundall) - [four titles]
Winterslow : Essays and Characters
(1850 David Bogue)

1851-1900
Sketches and Essays, collected 1839 and republished as "Men and Manners"
(1852)
Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage
(1854 Routledge. 2nd Ed)
Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers
(1869 Bell and Daldy)
Essays on the Fine Arts
(1873 Reeves & Turner)
Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion
(1893 Elkin Mathews & John Lane) - 50 large paper
Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion
(1894 PP) - 400

After 1901
Collected Works
(Ed Waller & Glover) (1902-6) - 13 vols
On Books and Character
(1908 Foulis)
A Reply to Z
(1923 The First Edition Club : Curwen Press) - 300
New Writings
(1925 Secker) - 2 vols
Selected Essays
(1930 Nonesuch Press) - Edited by Geoffrey Keynes
The Complete Works
(1930-1934 Dent) - 21 vols. 1000
Offered in 1999 for £1850
Libor Amoris & Dramatic Criticisms
(1948 Peter Nevill, London)
The Letters of William Hazlitt
(1978 New York UP)
Character of John Bull
(1978 Florin Press, Staplehurst) - 200 signed by Graham Williams
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt : Edited by Duncan Wu
(1998 Pickering & Chatto) - 9 vols

READING
Augustine Birrell : Life of William Hazlitt
(1902 Macmillan)
P P Howe : The Life of William Hazlitt
(1922 Martin Secker)
Geoffrey Keynes : Bibliography of William Hazlitt
(1931 Nonesuch Press) - 750
(1981 Godalming 2nd Ed)
Hesketh Pearson : The Fool of Love
(1934)
Catherine Macdonald Maclean : Born Under Saturn - A Biography of William Hazlitt
(1943 Collins)
C M Maclean : Hazlitt Painted by Himself
(1948)
Stanley Jones : William Hazlitt - A Life
(1989 OUP)
Tom Paulin : The Day-Star of Liberty - William Hazlitt's Radical Style
(1998 Faber £22.50)
A C Grayling : The Quarrel of the Age - A Biography of Hazlitt
(2000 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25)

Related Writers

Joseph Cundall
Edinburgh


See also

William Cobbett
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Nonesuch Press, The
John Boynton Priestley