William Blackwood

(1776-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blackwood, William, 1776-1834 NRA: Blackwood, William (1776-1834), publisher DNB: Blackwood, William (1776-1834), publisher and founder of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine LBT ID: WiBlack1834 VIAF ID: 71247984 LOC ID: nr91029936	B/BAP: 1776-11-20 DIED: 1834-09-16
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Edinburgh bookseller; he began business 1804 and for a time was John Murray's Scottish agent. He launched Blackwood's Magazine in 1817.
REFERENCES TO William Blackwood: Walter Scott to John Ballantyne, 17 October 1814 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Walter Scott, 8 November 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to John Ballantyne, 29 April 1816 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 James Ballantyne to William Blackwood, 28 August 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to James Ballantyne, [3 October 1816] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 4: ¶ 3 ¶ 11 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Another Letter: being the third (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 8 A Review of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, for October 1817 (Edinburgh: James Anderson, 1817) Found 3: ¶ 4 ¶ 17 ¶ 23 Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 14: ¶ 3 ¶ 1-6 ¶ 22 ¶ 30 ¶ 33 ¶ 44 ¶ 72 ¶ 92 ¶ 93 ¶ 99 ¶ 141 ¶ 155 ¶ 175 ¶ 177 Macvey Napier to John Wilson, 23 October 1817 in Correspondence on Blackwood’s Magazine ([Edinburgh]: [1818]) Found 1: ¶ 2 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 ¶ n1 Hunt, John, 1775-1848, “To Z” in The Examiner (16 November 1817) 729 Found 1: ¶ 3 Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847, Hypocrisy Unveiled (Edinburgh: Francis Pillans, 1818) Found 10: ¶ 2 ¶ 9 ¶ 13 ¶ 17 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847, Correspondence on Blackwood’s Magazine ([Edinburgh]: [1818]) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Letter from Z. to Mr Leigh Hunt” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (January 1818) 414-17 Found 1: ¶ 10 John Murray to James Hogg, 24 January 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Notices to Correspondents” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (March 1818) np Verse 8: p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 James Hogg to John Murray, 28 March 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to John Murray, 15 May 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Murray to Walter Scott, 3 September 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 “Mr. John Murray” in The Examiner (20 December 1818) 807-08 Found 1: ¶ “Doggrel Verses by Persons of Distinction” in The Examiner (14 March 1819) 169 Verse 6: p. 169a p. 169c p. 169d p. 169a p. 169c p. 169d James Hogg to John Murray, 9 December 1819 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “Blackwood’s Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (November 1820) 509-21 Found 8: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Mohock Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 666-85 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ n5 ¶ n10 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, [1821] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Timothie Twaddeltone, Gent., Ane True ande most Dolourous Historie of the Challenge which passed betweene Lokhearte, Emperoure of the Mohocks, and Skotte, King of the Baldwinians ([Edinburgh]: Webster, [1821]) Verse 2: p. p. Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 15 Scott, John, 1784-1821, Mr. Scott’s Second Statement. ([London]: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy], [1821]) Found 1: ¶ 21 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, [8? January 1821] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to William Hazlitt; 20 April [1821] in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Blackwood’s Magazine, John Bull, and the Beacon” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 657-59 Found 1: ¶ 1 William Maginn to William Jerdan, 9 December [1823?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 [William Hazlitt], “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 Found 1: ¶ 5 Henry Mackenzie to Samuel Rogers, 8 August 1827 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 5: ¶ 125 ¶ 126 ¶ 127 ¶ 159 ¶ 1n Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 2: ¶ 95 ¶ 159 Felicia Hemans to Lady Morgan, 2 January 1829 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Moore to John Murray, 25 October 1831 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Verse 1: p. 327a Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [3 January 1833] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1814-15 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter I 1816 Found 5: ¶ 17 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 29 Chapter II 1817 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter IV 1818 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Chapter VI 1818 Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ n1 Chapter XI 1823 Found 1: ¶ 24 Chapter VI 1826 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter VII 1826 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 34 Chapter IX 1826 Found 1: ¶ 65 Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 13 Caroline Anne Bowles Southey to John Murray, 5 October 1840 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Murray to John Colquhoun, 16 March 1841 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Colquhoun to John Murray, 20 March 1841 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Burns Anecdote Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch 5: Criticisms Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. 7: W. H. Pyne Found 3: ¶ 7 ¶ 13 ¶ n1 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 16: British Association Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. 17: Literary Characters Found 1: ¶ 26 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ 36 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 50 Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 15 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 XVIII 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 VII Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 18 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 132 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. XX 1821 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 24 Ch. XIII 1825 Found 1: ¶ 15 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ n1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter XI. 1825-1827. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 24 Chapter XI. Found 7: ¶ 31 ¶ 36 ¶ 37 ¶ 39 ¶ 42 ¶ 56 ¶ 61 Chapter XII. Found 3: ¶ 19 ¶ 21 ¶ 75 Chapter XIV. Found 3: ¶ 19 ¶ 47 ¶ 52 Chapter XV. Found 1: ¶ 33 Chapter XVI. Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter XVIII. Found 29: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 ¶ 10 ¶ 12 ¶ 15 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 ¶ 32 ¶ 34 ¶ 36 ¶ 38 ¶ 39 ¶ 40 ¶ 41 ¶ 48 ¶ 50 ¶ 52 ¶ 54 Chapter XIX. Found 17: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 15 ¶ 17 ¶ 20 ¶ 26 ¶ 29 ¶ 37 ¶ 38 ¶ 40 ¶ 44 ¶ 46 ¶ 48 ¶ 52 ¶ 56 Chap. XX. Found 10: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 19 ¶ 21 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ 27 ¶ 45 Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ 5 Chap. XXII. Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 40 Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 55 Chap. XXVI. Found 1: ¶ 25 Chap. XXX. Verse 1: p. 327a Chap. XXXII. Found 1: ¶ 5 Chap. XXXVI. Found 2: ¶ 25 ¶ 34 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 4: 1815-17 Found 6: ¶ 2 ¶ 16 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 14: ¶ 5 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 28 ¶ 33 ¶ 40 ¶ 43 ¶ 45 ¶ 46 ¶ 47 ¶ 49 ¶ n2 ¶ n3 Chapter 6: 1817-19 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 39 Chapter 7: 1818-20 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ n2 Chapter 8: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter 9: 1820-21 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 22 Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 5: ¶ 12 ¶ 19 ¶ 31 ¶ 35 ¶ 43 Chapter 11: 1817-24 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter 12: 1821-25 Found 2: ¶ 52 ¶ n2 Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 9: ¶ 2 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 49 ¶ 59 ¶ 62 Chapter 22: 1850-53 Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1833