#william hone

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A new photo of Andrew as barrister William Garrow

- mistakenly alongside a portrait of William Hone - a radical writer and pamphleteer of the late 18th century

There are images of the real William Garrow available:

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Memorabilia Monday: Autographs 5: Hodge Podge

It's the final hodge podge addition of our series covering Gordon Russell West autograph collection. We've got a little bit of everything including activists, satirists, theologians, philosophers, and even a ballet dancer.

Susan B. Anthony

Sadly, Anthony does not get a write-up, but as one of the few Americans out of the bunch, it is notable that West kept her signature.

Caption reads: Wm. Cobbett, 1766 - 1835. English political writer, notorious for his vicious attacks and aggressive character.

Caption reads: George Grote, 1794 - 1871. English historian, especially noted for his "History of Greece."

Caption reads: Wm. Hone, 1780 - 1842. Notorious English writer and political satirist, whose writings (illustrated by Cruikshank) resulted in repeated prosecutions. He was incidentally a bookseller, in partnership with John Bone. He learned to read from the Bible only, and having been reared in the strictest sectarian narrowness, he later became an atheist and wrote extensively along irreligious lines, which resulted in further prosecutions.

Captions reads: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer. 1802 - 1873. RA. Celebrated English animal painter.

Caption reads: John Stuart Mill, 1806 - 1873. Celebrated English philosophical writer, logician and economist.

Caption reads: Edward Bouverie Pusey. 1800 - 1882. English theologian who started the movement (known as "Puseyism") which resulted in the practice of confession among certain extremists within the Church of England. An associate of John Keble and John Henry Newman.

Caption reads: Maria Taglioni. 1804 - 1884. Celebrated ballet dancer, mentioned by Thackery and Balzac. Married Comte Gilbert de Voisins.

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The Cheltenham Journal, January 17, 1825 published this advertisement for Five Arabian Conjurers.

"They will each take a lighted torch in either hand, when lo! Incredible to relate! Suckee, with the burning torches will jump down Mustapha's throat, who in an instant with equal dexterity will pass down the thorat of Abdallah, Abdallah will jump down the throat of Benassar, and Benassar down his brother Muley's, who, lastly, not withstanding he is encumbered with his four brothers and their four torches, will throw a flip-flap somerset down his own throat, and leave the audience in total darkness!"

The playhouse was crammed with spectators and the conjurer decamped five minutes before the show with all the money. "Probably he jumped down his own throat," William Hone reported in the Year Book of Daily Recreation, 1832

(portrait of William Hone, English writer and satirist, by William Patten)

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Young, beautiful and learned Jane, intent On knowledge, fount it peace; her vast acquirement Of goodness was her fall; she was content With dulcet pleasures, such as calm retirement Yields to the wise alone; — her only vice Was virtue: in obedience to her sire And lord she died, with them a sacrifice To their ambition: her own mild desire Was rather to be happy than be great; For though at their request, she claimed the crown, That they through her might rise to rule the state, Yet the bright diadem and gorgeous throne She viewed as cares, dimming the dignity Of her unsullied mind and pur benignity.

by William Hone (1780 -1842)

Inscribed beneath a portrait of Lady Jane Grey

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(via Yesterday's Papers: William Hone Part IX)

In January 1821 William Hone published a new satire, The Political Showman – At Home! In it he reflects on the role which the press had played in undermining the government’s attempts to subvert the constitution since 1819. The satire shows a printing press anthropomorphized into a circus ringmaster who is conducting the viewer through a menagerie of fantastical beasts which sport the heads of various members of the cabinet and the royal family. The ministers have now been tamed by the press and the power of the press will also finally bring about the downfall of ‘The Legitimate Vampire’, a huge man-eating monster which embodies the spirit of despotism...