John Wilkes

(1725-1797)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 NRA: Wilkes John (1725-1797) politician journalist and wit DNB: Wilkes, John (1725-1797), politician LBT ID: JoWilke1797 VIAF ID: 62815192 LOC ID: n79021681	B/BAP: 1725-10-17 DIED: 1797-12-26
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English political reformer and foe of George III who was twice elected to Parliament while imprisoned; he was the author of attacks on the Scots and the libertine Essay on Woman.
REFERENCES TO John Wilkes: Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 15 January 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord John Townshend to Samuel Rogers, 13 August 1816 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Verse 1: p. 222a Robert Southey to John Rickman, 20 November 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 24 June 1817 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 5 April 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE ACCUSERS. Verse 2: p. 18b p. 18b NOTES. Found 3: ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Mrs. Dolignon,” 19 Janury 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVII. 1787 Found 1: ¶ 27 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 11 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 25 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810 Found 1: ¶ 28 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XI Ch. XXI. 1816 Ch. XXIII. 1818 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 127 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IX. Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 8 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 11 Note to Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 4 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818. Verse 1: p. 222a Chapter III. 1834-1837. Found 1: ¶ 55 Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 31 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXVI. Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806