John Hawkesworth (book editor)
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| Born | c. 1715 |
| Died | 16 November 1773 (aged c. 58) |
| Notable work | Almoran and Hamet An Account of the Voyages |
John Hawkesworth LLD (c. 1715 – 16 November 1773) was an English writer and book editor, born in London.[3]
Biography
In 1744, Hawkesworth succeeded
The Adventurer, which ran to 140 issues, of which 70 were from the pen of Hawkesworth himself.[3]
Because of his defence of morality and religion, Hawkesworth was rewarded by the
Amphitryon for the Drury Lane stage in 1756, and Southerne's Oronooko in 1759. He wrote the libretto of an oratorio Zimri in 1760, and the next year Edgar and Emmeline: a Fairy Tale was produced at Drury Lane. His Almoran and Hamet (1761) was first drafted as a play [citation needed], and a tragedy based on it by S J Pratt, The Fair Circassian
(1781), met with some success.
He was commissioned by the
parish church at Bromley, Kent
, where he and his wife had kept a school.
Hawkesworth was a close imitator of Johnson both in style and thought, and was at one time on very friendly terms with him. It is said that he presumed on his success, and lost Johnson's friendship as early as 1756.[3]
References
- ^ Digital Collection, National Library of Australia
- ^ Catalogue, National Library of Australia, accessed February 2010
- ^ a b c This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hawkesworth, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 97–98.
- ^ Hawkesworth, John. "An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty, For Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. Vol. I." Charting the Land on the Ocean Pacific Exploration, 1520–1876. University of Otago. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ Rogers, Shef (2009). "Enlarging the Prospects of Happiness: Travel Reading and Travel Writing". The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Cambridge University Press. pp. 786–787.
- ^ Truss, Lynne (14 January 2017). "Point of view: 'The case of John Hawkesworth proves that a bad review can kill you'". The Guardian (Review section). London. p. 15. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
Further reading
- John L. Abbott (1970). "John Hawkesworth: Friend of Samuel Johnson and Editor of Captain Cook's Voyages and of the Gentleman's Magazine". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 3 (3): 339–350. JSTOR 2737875.
- Hawkesworth, John; Byron, John; Wallis, Samuel; Carteret, Philip; Cook, James; Banks, Joseph (1773), An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq, London Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume I, Volume II-III
External links
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- John Hawkesworth at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
- Works by John Hawkesworth at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Hawkesworth at Internet Archive
- Account of the Voyages...in the Southern Hemisphere, by Hawkesworth, 1773, online at the National Library of Australia
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