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A Career Told in Newsprint: James Woodhouse in the Press, 1763‐7
Author(s) -
VanHagen Steve
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12737
Subject(s) - newspaper , newsprint , poetry , classics , art , history , literature , media studies , sociology , engineering , pulp and paper industry , kraft paper
This article argues that insufficient attention has been paid within existing accounts of the career of the ‘Poetical Shoemaker’, James Woodhouse (1735‐1820), to items in the newspaper and periodical press about and by him, with specific reference to the years of his greatest fame, c .1763‐7. To remedy this, the article focuses most, within a wider account, on the publication of ‘The Advertisement’ to Woodhouse’s first volume in 1764, on an anonymous letter two days later, probably by Woodhouse himself, and on two poems addressed to Woodhouse by labouring‐class admirers which provide insight into his reception by the labouring classes.