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Francis Espinasse

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Scottish journalist

Francis Espinasse (1823–1912) was a Scottish journalist and follower ofThomas Carlyle.[1]

Life

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Espinasse came from aGascon French background.[2] He was born inEdinburgh, and studied atEdinburgh University.[1][3] As a young man, he was warned against life as aman of letters byFrancis Jeffrey andWilliam Wordsworth.[4]

Espinasse went to London in 1843, to work for theBritish Museum as an assistant; but he left his post after a clash withAnthony Panizzi. He became close to the Carlyles, andThomas Carlyle supported his career, which took him to Manchester and back to Edinburgh.[1][3] He published on 20 October 1847 in theManchester Examiner an article onRalph Waldo Emerson, who was starting out on a British lecture tour, in terms which set a pattern for later coverage.[5][6] When the Lancashire Public School Association was set up in 1848, he became its secretary, assisted byEdwin Waugh.[7] In 1849 he was promoting the memory of Joseph Arkwright in a lecture at the Manchester Mechanics' Institute.[8]

A prolific freelance writer, Espinasse became a major contributor toThe Critic in the early 1850s, introduced byWilliam Maccall. Under the pseudonymHerodotus Smith he gave an insider's view of the literary world (other pseudonyms—he used at least three—wereLucian Paul andFrank Grave).[9][10][11] He edited theEdinburgh Evening Courant from 1864 to 1867, taking over whenJames Hannay moved to London, and being replaced by the new owner, Charles Wescomb, by James Scot Henderson.[12][13]

The long-lived Espinasse was in the end thought of as "theNestor of Victorian journalism". He was remembered as a biographer of French philosophers, and substantial contributor to theDictionary of National Biography (he is one of those credited with its conception).[14][15] He became a Poor Brother of theLondon Charterhouse, supplying a pension.[16]

Works

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  • Life and Times of François-Marie Arouet, calling himself Voltaire, 3 vols., 1866[17]
  • Lancashire Worthies (2 vols.)
  • Literary Recollections and Sketches, 1893[18]
  • Life of Renan, 1895[19]

Notes

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  1. ^abcMark Cumming (January 2004).The Carlyle Encyclopedia. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 152.ISBN 978-0-8386-3792-0.
  2. ^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing. British Library. p. 244.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
  3. ^ab"The Athenaeum".Internet Archive. 1912. p. 17. Retrieved19 May 2015.
  4. ^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing. British Library. p. 244 note 52.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
  5. ^Scudder, Townsend (1935). "Emerson's British Lecture Tour, 1847-1848, Part I: The Preparations for the Tour, and the Nature of Emerson's Audiences".American Literature.7 (1):15–36.doi:10.2307/2920329.JSTOR 2920329.
  6. ^James Miller (3 January 2013).The Philosophical Life: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche. Oneworld Publications. p. 393 note.ISBN 978-1-85168-956-9.
  7. ^Samuel Edwin Maltby (1918).Manchester and the Movement for National Elementary Education, 1800-1870. Manchester University Press. p. 70. GGKEY:27LQCN3RUX3.
  8. ^Christine MacLeod (20 December 2007).Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 197.ISBN 978-0-521-87370-3.
  9. ^Alvin Sullivan.British Literary Magazines: The Augustan age and the age of Johnson, 1698-1788. Greenwood Press. pp. 98–9.ISBN 978-0-313-22871-1.
  10. ^Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009).Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 97.ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
  11. ^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing. British Library. p. 243.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
  12. ^Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940).The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660 - 1800. CUP Archive. p. 807. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.
  13. ^Escott, Thomas Hay Sweet (1911)."Masters of English journalism: a study of personal forces".Internet Archive. London: T. F. Unwin. p. 286. Retrieved22 May 2015.
  14. ^Moore, Julian; Whittick, Christopher (2005). "Depictions of Georgina: Aspects of social identity in two portraits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti".The British Art Journal.6 (1):3–20.JSTOR 41615319.
  15. ^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing. British Library. p. 244 note 54.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
  16. ^Nigel Cross (9 June 1988).The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street. CUP Archive. p. 81.ISBN 978-0-521-35721-0.
  17. ^Francis Espinasse (1866).Life and Times of François-Marie Arouet, calling himself Voltaire.
  18. ^Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940).The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660 - 1800. CUP Archive. pp. 784–. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.
  19. ^Chris Nottingham (1999).The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics. Amsterdam University Press. p. 26 note.ISBN 978-90-5356-386-1.
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