NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Forster, John, 1812-1876 NRA: Forster, John (1812-1876), historian and biographer DNB: Forster, John (1812-1876), writer and literary adviser LBT ID: JoForst1876 VIAF ID: 67274596 LOC ID: n50028351 | B/BAP: 1812-04-02 DIED: 1876-02-01 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English man of letters and friend of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt who was editor of The Examiner (1847-55) and the biographer of Goldsmith (1854),
Landor (1869), and Dickens (1872-74). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Forster: Charles Lamb to John Forster, [April? 1832] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [23 December 1832] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [March? 1833] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [May 1833] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [12 May 1833] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to John Forster, [25 June 1834] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) John Forster to William Jerdan, [4 June 1836?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) John Forster to William Jerdan, [June 1844?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) John Forster to Samuel Rogers, 9 September 1851 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) |