Washington Irving [Geoffrey Crayon]

(1783-1859)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 NRA: Irving, Washington (1783-1859) American Author LBT ID: WaIrvin1859 VIAF ID: 65939603 LOC ID: n79005645	B/BAP: 1783-04-03 DIED: 1859-11-28
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American writer living in England in 1815, where he made his reputation with The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1820).
REFERENCES TO Washington Irving [Geoffrey Crayon]: Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleuch, [8 February? 1816] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Walter Scott to William Laidlaw, [November 1817] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Washington Irving to John Murray, 31 October 1820 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 24 September 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 3 November 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 29 May 1822 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 9 January 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 Allan Cunningham to John Murray, 26 April 1823 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 2 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 2: ¶ 106 ¶ 108 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 “James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd” in The Athenaeum 1 (26 February 1828) Found 1: ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 68 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1820 Life of Byron: 1821 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 7 September 1830 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 “[Moore’s Life of Lord Byron]” in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (8 January 1831) 19-23 Found 1: ¶ 29 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Appendix Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Frances Kemble to William Harness, 5 May 1833 in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1815 Found 1: ¶ 31 Chapter XII 1815 Found 2: ¶ 17 ¶ n1 Chapter III 1817 Found 8: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 25 ¶ 30 ¶ n1 Chapter IV 1818 Found 1: ¶ n3 Chapter VIII 1819 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter IX 1819 Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter I 1820 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter IX 1822-23 Chapter X 1823 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter III 1825 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter IX 1826 Found 1: ¶ 63 Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 12 Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Medwin, “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283 Found 2: ¶ 54 ¶ 56 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 23 October 1845 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 15 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Byron and his Friends Found 1: ¶ 2 The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 16 Lerici: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 2 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 20: Lord Munster Found 3: ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 Ch. 11: The R.S.L. Found 1: ¶ 24 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 3: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 2 Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter 9 Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter 8 Found 1: ¶ 47 Chapter 13 Found 4: ¶ 5 ¶ 70 ¶ 72 ¶ 78 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXVII Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 6 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) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 31 Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 11 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 7 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 8 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1828-1830. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter III. 1834-1837. Found 1: ¶ 35 Chapter VI. 1845-46. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XII. Found 1: ¶ 25 Chapter XVII. Found 1: ¶ 18 Chap. XXIII. Chap. XXIV. Found 15: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 18 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ n1 Chap. XXV. Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 9 Chap. XXVI. Found 2: ¶ 56 ¶ 62 Chap. XXVII. Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Chap. XXVIII. Found 13: ¶ 9 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 15 ¶ 17 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 ¶ 26 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 Chap. XXIX. Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 37 Chap. XXX. Found 5: ¶ 43 ¶ 45 ¶ 48 ¶ 49 ¶ 52 Chap. XXXIII. Chap. XXXVII. Found 1: ¶ 13 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 8: 1819-20 Found 2: ¶ 33 ¶ n1 Chapter 9: 1820-21 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) THOMAS CAMPBELL Found 1: ¶ 11 GEORGE DOUGLAS Found 1: ¶ 20 MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE Found 1: ¶ 3