Abstract
A review of Latané, David E.. William Maginn and the British Press: A Critical Biography. London: Ashgate, 2013. 378 pp. £95.
Highlights
David Latané’s remarkable biography of William Maginn is an invaluable resource that scholars will, no doubt, return to time and again
This study is not a biography of author and editor William Maginn (10 July 1794 - 21 August 1842); it provides a wealth of information about literary life and publishing history in Ireland, Scotland, and England in the early decades of the nineteenth-century
For Maginn, literary and social life were always intimately connected, and his personal and professional relationships would intermingle, for better or worse, throughout his life. These relationships began with his correspondence with William Blackwood when he was still in Ireland, and it was amongst the Blackwoodians that Maginn found a group of writers who “ def[ied], rather than deif[ied], the Romantic notion of the author” (23)
Summary
David Latané’s remarkable biography of William Maginn is an invaluable resource that scholars will, no doubt, return to time and again. William Maginn and the British Press: A Critical Biography. ‘The Most Talented Writer in London Who Refused to ‘Come Forward’ as an Author’: William Maginn’s Literary Life
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