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Chatterton to Sarah Chatterton, 6 May 1770 (Works, 560). This letter, along with others of Chatterton, was well known. Besides its inclusion in Love and Madness (1770), 170–1, it was reprinted in Gregory’s Life (1789). Isaac Fell, publisher of Chatterton’s ‘Resignation’ and The Consuliad’ in the Freeholder’s Magazine, was in the ...
- David Fairer
- 1999
1770: On the 24th August 1770, Chatterton, according to a note by Dr Lort, buys calomel and vitriol from Cross the Apothecary. 1770: The Pocket-Book is found in Chatterton's room and is returned to his mother, along with Catcott's letter and some other papers, probably during September 1770. 1792: Sarah Chatterton dies. Mary inherits the family ...
Giles Malpas Chatterton, first child & son of Thomas and Sarah Chatterton. Giles Malpas was named after the man who donated the funds to build the house for the school master and his family. Born on Wednesday 12 December 1750, baptised 1 January 1751, died Tuesday 16 April 1751, aged 4 months 4 days. It is safe to say that the above entry in ...
Biographies & Works. Published 1770 - todate. 'Portraits of Chatterton' : View. A gathering of the various books containing Chatterton's works and the many biographies produced over the years, stretching from 1770 to the present day. This is the one sure way to trace 'facts' to their source.
Chatterton was born on November 20, 1752 in Bristol, the posthumous son of a schoolmaster—also named Thomas—of an eccentric disposition but with strong musical and antiquarian interests. The elder Thomas Chatterton’s ancestors had been sextons of the church of Saint Mary in the parish of Redcliff for generations.
Poet, forger. Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was an exceptionally studious child ...
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Dec 9, 2012 · Chatterton the Teenage Romantic. In a previous post, we spoke of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto as, effectively, ‘the forgery that began Gothic literature’. Another important forgery from the 1760s was the work of an adolescent, Thomas Chatterton. Born in Bristol in 1752, Chatterton started writing poetry at an early ...
