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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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
- Thomas Chatterton’s Strangely Gothic and Pseudo-Medieval Childhood
- The Young Thomas Chatterton Creates An Incredible Literary Fraud
- Thomas Chatterton Tricks Patrons and Suffers A Stultifying Apprenticeship
- A Clash with A Gothic Writer and A Sardonic But Effective Suicide Note
- London and The Death of Thomas Chatterton
Born in November 1752, Chatterton was – like David Copperfield – a posthumous child. His father – also called Thomas Chatterton – had been the master of a local school as well as being a sub-chanter (an assistant singer) at Bristol Cathedral. Chatterton Senior was also a musician, poet, antiquarian and numismatist who had a fascination for the occu...
In his attic, surrounded by his books and medieval parchments, mesmerised by the gothic carvings and the romanticised images of the Middle Ages swirling in his head, Chatterton began to create not only poems but in fact a poet. He dreamt up a medieval genius, a character so powerful he’d overlap with Chatterton’s own life. Like with later artists w...
When he was almost 15, Thomas Chatterton finally escaped the dire surroundings of Colston’s Hospital, beginning an apprenticeship in July 1767. He was to learn the duties of a legal clerk in the office of the Bristol attorney John Lambert. Chatterton wouldn’t prove a much better apprentice than he had pupil, showing little interest in his work and ...
In December 1768 – now aged 17 – Chatterton sent a letter to the London publisher James Dodsley. Chatterton offered Dodsley ‘copies of several ancient poems, and an interlude, perhaps the oldest dramatic piece extant, wrote by one Rowley, a priest in Bristol, who lived in the reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV.’ Though he signed the letters with the ...
Thomas Chatterton began his life in London lodging in Shoreditch, then a disreputable district on the eastern borders of the old City. He stayed at the house of a relative, a Mr Warmsley, and had to share a room with another tenant. His roommate later remarked that Chatterton would spend much of the night writing. Indeed, Chatterton’s first weeks i...
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 ...
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During his final brief episode in 1770 as a Grub Street hack writer in London, Chatterton wrote whatever the journalistic market would bear; short stories and musical works attest his creative ...
