Hone, William, 1780-1842
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- Cecil, John, 1780-1842
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Birth Date
- 1780-06-03
Death Date
- 1842-11-08
Birth Place
- Bath (England)
Associated Language
- English
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- found: His The every-day book and Table book, 1841.
- found: His Sixty curious and authentic ... 1819:t.p. (John Cecil)
- found: Wikipedia, December 11, 2019(William Hone was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom. Hone was born at Bath on 3 June 1780. He died at Tottenham on 8 November 1842 and is buried at Dr Watts' Walk in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington.)
- found: Archives West (website), viewed Dec. 28, 2023:William Hone Papers, 1816-1842 (William Hone was born June 3, 1780, in Bath, England, the son of William and Frances Maria Stawell Hone. At the age of twenty he married Miss Sarah Johnson, started a family which was to include ten children, and opened a small circulating library, stationery and book store in Lambeth Walk. Rather than paying attention to his growing family and failing business, Hone became involved in the radical politics of the era. His humanitarian upbringing clashed with the repressiveness of the government and in about 1810 his radicalism found vent in publication. Pamphlets and broadsides streamed out under his imprint, many anonymously; Hone wrote many of them but he published even more. In 1817 he was tried three times for blasphemy because he had published satires on the government which were parodies of the catechism, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the church litany and the Athanasian Creed. Hone's successful defense at each of the three trials was based on his research and explication of the history of parody as a literary form. The blasphemy charge was, of course, a cover for the damage he had inflicted on the government though the excellence of his satires. Resolving to develop his researches into a major work on parody, Hone slowly turned from political activism to antiquarianism. Although his projected parodic history was never completed, he had to sell his reference library during his third or fourth bankruptcy, his research culminated in the publication of the Every-Day Book. On New Year's Day of 1832, Hone suffered a religious conversion which caused him to retract many of his earlier radical stands, and by 1835 he was sub-editor of a religious newspaper. By June of 1840 his deteriorating health caused him to retire from all of his activities and in November of 1842 he died at the age of sixty-two.) - https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv15391
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- 1979-04-27: new
- 2024-01-08: revised
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