William
Hone: Secondary Source Bibliography
Note: I try to keep this listing of scholarly, critical, and other secondary sources of information on Hone as complete, current, and accurate as I can. Additions or corrections are more than welcome--just send them to the editor, Kyle Grimes.
Secondary Source List:
Bowden, Ann. William Hone's Political Journalism, 1815-1821. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Texas at Austin. 1975.
Though the work is a dissertation rather than a published book, it is nonetheless the most thoroughly researched critical and historical source concerned with Hone's popular writing during the post-Waterloo unrest.
Discusses a controversy over the rights to publish Hearne's Hell-Mouth. The print appears as a fold out page in Hone's Ancient Mysteries Described.
George's catalogues are an invaluable resource for the study of the productions of the ephemeral press of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Britain. Essential reading for students of Hone and Cruikshank's illustrated satires.
A general-interest biographical article with particular emphasis on Hone's relations with the Reform movement.
Argues that Hone's publication of Don Juan, Canto the Third! in late 1819 effects a comic/rhetorical claim on Byron's poem, the first two cantos of which were published anonymously by Murray in July 1819.
Essay traces the dissemination of Hone's 1817 parodies, discovering an informal but highly effective network for the circulation of comic, radical texts.
The standard, full-length biography. Opening chapters contain Hone's unfinished autobiography. The book is useful as a source of leads, but not always reliable in its facts and distinctly slanted against the Hone-as-active-radical in favor of Hone-as-pious-antiquarian.
General biographical article.
A finely illustrated account of the "Bank Restriction Note" issued by Hone in early 1819.
Offers a sound summary of Hone's activities as a radical writer and publisher with emphasis on links between Hone and other radicals.
The edition includes a complete facsimile text of Hone and Cruikshank's most famous pamphlet.
A very useful anthology of Hone's writing. The book is divided into four sections containing materials on Hone's 1817 trials, a selection of the satires and parodies of the later Regency, brief excerpts from the later prose works, and (most valuable of all) selected letters.
Useful if idiosyncratic collection of parodic writing.
Valuable accounts of Hone, Carlile, and Benbow.
Strong on the vexed relationship between Hone and Byron, especially considering Hone's piracies, rewritings, and imitations of Byron's works.
Essential reading. The book offers the best assessment to date of the significance of Hone's career--both his famous defense of 1817 and his subsequent activities as publisher, parodist, and antiquarian--on the development of nineteenth-century print culture. Marsh establishes continuities between Hone and, for example, Dickens.
Excellent, detailed, thoroughly researched biography of Cruikshank, Hone's friend and partner in, among other projects, the squibs of 1819-21. Cruikshank, incidentally, is one key link between Hone and Dickens.
Basic background account of the 1817 trials.
Well-reproduced facsimile editions of Hone and Cruikshank's most famous pamphlets of the post-Peterloo and Queen Caroline Affair years; includes as well some royalist responses. Rickword's introductory essay and biography is a brief but useful and reliable account of Hone's life.
Excellent reading of Hone's 1823 antiquarian work and its highly controversial predecessor, the Apocryphal New Testament (1820).
An early and very sympathetic account of Hone's significance in the nineteenth-century movement for a free press. Routledge had access to Hone's own papers and correspondence.
Introductory; a handy assessment of the various Hone pamphlets in the Newberry Collection.
Details a split in conceptions of language as the "coarse" or "vulgar" language of the so-called "lower orders" becomes increasingly distinct from and hostile to the more "refined" language of the upper classes. With a chapter on Hone's 1817 trials, the book offers valuable socio-linguistic background for understanding the classist assumptions of both prosecution and defendant.
A feminist reading of the two works finds that Hone's adaptation presents a less egalitarian view of the status of women even than Byron's poem.
Excerpts from The Every Day Book, The Table Book, and The Year Book, Hone's antiquarian and popular-cultural anthologies of the late 1820s-early 1830s, arranged by subject with a valuable introduction.
Perhaps the most thorough and well-researched account to date of Hone's work as radical publicist in the post-Napoleonic years. Considerable emphasis on interplay between advertising and political rhetoric. The appendix has Wood's transcription of the manuscript of The Late John Wilkes's Catechism (1817) from the British Library.
Related files:
- William Hone, Bibliography and Archive Homepage.
- William Hone: A Short Title Bibliography--a quick reference to titles and dates of works written and/or published by Hone.
- William Hone: An Annotated Bibliography--a thorough bibliography of works written and/or published by Hone, with title-page transcriptions and brief descriptive annotations.
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