Fragments
of a Biography
For reasons explained in the introductory essay on "Discursive Hosts," the BioText does not include a seamless biographical narrative that coherently "covers" Hone's life from its beginning in 1780 to its end in 1842. Instead, this prose account of Hone's life is presented here in a series of fragments, the number of which will likely continue to grow. The present files concentrate on the early years of Hone's life; readers interested in a roughly chronological account should examine the files in the order presented below.
The fragments are listed here in roughly chronological order:
- The Gordon Riots (enter: William Hone) (1780)
- The Elder William Hone and the Heritage of Dissent (1770s, 80s)
- A London Childhood--Early Reading (1783-93)
- Sturm und Drang in a Revolutionary Decade (1790s)
- Early Public Life (1800-1805)
- John Bone, "Tranquillity," and the Poor Laws (1806-07)
- The Bone-Hone Bookshop and After (1807-13)
- Hone and the London Asylum (1813-14)
- The Critical Review and the Case of Edward Vyse (1814-1815)
- The Fenning Case and the Rise of the Watchdog Press (1815-16)
- Publishing the Parodies: The Background to Hone's 1817 Censorship Trials (1817)
