Francis Espinasse

Francis Espinasse(1823–1912) was a Scottish journalist and follower ofThomas Carlyle.^[1]

Life

Espinasse came from aGasconFrench background.^[2]He was born inEdinburgh,and studied atEdinburgh University.^[1]^[3]As a young man, he was warned against life as aman of lettersbyFrancis JeffreyandWilliam Wordsworth.^[4]

Espinasse went to London in 1843, to work for theBritish Museumas an assistant; but he left his post after a clash withAnthony Panizzi.He became close to the Carlyles, andThomas Carlylesupported his career, which took him to Manchester and back to Edinburgh.^[1]^[3]He published on 20 October 1847 in theManchester Examineran article onRalph Waldo Emerson,who was starting out on a British lecture tour, in terms which set a pattern for later coverage.^[5]^[6]When the Lancashire Public School Association was set up in 1848, he became its secretary, assisted byEdwin Waugh.^[7]In 1849 he was promoting the memory of Joseph Arkwright in a lecture at the Manchester Mechanics' Institute.^[8]

A prolific freelance writer, Espinasse became a major contributor toThe Criticin the early 1850s, introduced byWilliam Maccall.Under the pseudonymHerodotus Smithhe gave an insider's view of the literary world (other pseudonyms—he used at least three—wereLucian PaulandFrank Grave).^[9]^[10]^[11]He edited theEdinburgh Evening Courantfrom 1864 to 1867, taking over whenJames Hannaymoved to London, and being replaced by the new owner, Charles Wescomb, by James Scot Henderson.^[12]^[13]

The long-lived Espinasse was in the end thought of as "theNestorof Victorian journalism ". He was remembered as a biographer of French philosophers, and substantial contributor to theDictionary of National Biography(he is one of those credited with its conception).^[14]^[15]He became a Poor Brother of theLondon Charterhouse,supplying a pension.^[16]

Works

Life and Times of François-Marie Arouet, calling himself Voltaire,3 vols., 1866^[17]
Lancashire Worthies(2 vols.)
Literary Recollections and Sketches,1893^[18]
Life of Renan,1895^[19]

Notes

^^a ^b ^cMark Cumming (January 2004).The Carlyle Encyclopedia.Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 152.ISBN 978-0-8386-3792-0.
^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 244.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
^^a ^b"The Athenaeum".Internet Archive.1912. p. 17.Retrieved19 May2015.
^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 244 note 52.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
^Scudder, Townsend (1935). "Emerson's British Lecture Tour, 1847-1848, Part I: The Preparations for the Tour, and the Nature of Emerson's Audiences".American Literature.7(1): 15–36.doi:10.2307/2920329.JSTOR 2920329.
^James Miller (3 January 2013).The Philosophical Life: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche.Oneworld Publications. p. 393 note.ISBN 978-1-85168-956-9.
^Samuel Edwin Maltby (1918).Manchester and the Movement for National Elementary Education, 1800-1870.Manchester University Press. p. 70. GGKEY:27LQCN3RUX3.
^Christine MacLeod (20 December 2007).Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914.Cambridge University Press. p. 197.ISBN 978-0-521-87370-3.
^Alvin Sullivan.British Literary Magazines: The Augustan age and the age of Johnson, 1698-1788.Greenwood Press. pp. 98–9.ISBN 978-0-313-22871-1.
^Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009).Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland.Academia Press. p. 97.ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 243.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
^Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940).The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660 - 1800.CUP Archive. p. 807. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.
^Escott, Thomas Hay Sweet(1911)."Masters of English journalism: a study of personal forces".Internet Archive.London: T. F. Unwin. p. 286.Retrieved22 May2015.
^Moore, Julian; Whittick, Christopher (2005). "Depictions of Georgina: Aspects of social identity in two portraits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti".The British Art Journal.6(1): 3–20.JSTOR 41615319.
^Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 244 note 54.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.
^Nigel Cross (9 June 1988).The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street.CUP Archive. p. 81.ISBN 978-0-521-35721-0.
^Francis Espinasse (1866).Life and Times of François-Marie Arouet, calling himself Voltaire.
^Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940).The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660 - 1800.CUP Archive. pp. 784–. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.
^Chris Nottingham (1999).The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics.Amsterdam University Press. p. 26 note.ISBN 978-90-5356-386-1.

[Cumming2004-1] Mark Cumming (January 2004).The Carlyle Encyclopedia.Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 152.ISBN 978-0-8386-3792-0.

[2] Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 244.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.

[Athenaeum-3] "The Athenaeum".Internet Archive.1912. p. 17.Retrieved19 May2015.

[4] Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 244 note 52.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.

[5] Scudder, Townsend (1935). "Emerson's British Lecture Tour, 1847-1848, Part I: The Preparations for the Tour, and the Nature of Emerson's Audiences".American Literature.7(1): 15–36.doi:10.2307/2920329.JSTOR 2920329.

[6] James Miller (3 January 2013).The Philosophical Life: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche.Oneworld Publications. p. 393 note.ISBN 978-1-85168-956-9.

[7] Samuel Edwin Maltby (1918).Manchester and the Movement for National Elementary Education, 1800-1870.Manchester University Press. p. 70. GGKEY:27LQCN3RUX3.

[8] Christine MacLeod (20 December 2007).Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914.Cambridge University Press. p. 197.ISBN 978-0-521-87370-3.

[9] Alvin Sullivan.British Literary Magazines: The Augustan age and the age of Johnson, 1698-1788.Greenwood Press. pp. 98–9.ISBN 978-0-313-22871-1.

[BrakeDemoor2009-10] Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009).Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland.Academia Press. p. 97.ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.

[11] Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 243.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.

[12] Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940).The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660 - 1800.CUP Archive. p. 807. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.

[13] Escott, Thomas Hay Sweet(1911)."Masters of English journalism: a study of personal forces".Internet Archive.London: T. F. Unwin. p. 286.Retrieved22 May2015.

[14] Moore, Julian; Whittick, Christopher (2005). "Depictions of Georgina: Aspects of social identity in two portraits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti".The British Art Journal.6(1): 3–20.JSTOR 41615319.

[15] Asa Briggs (2008).A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.British Library. p. 244 note 54.ISBN 978-0-7123-4873-7.

[16] Nigel Cross (9 June 1988).The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street.CUP Archive. p. 81.ISBN 978-0-521-35721-0.

[17] Francis Espinasse (1866).Life and Times of François-Marie Arouet, calling himself Voltaire.

[18] Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940).The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 2. 1660 - 1800.CUP Archive. pp. 784–. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.

[19] Chris Nottingham (1999).The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics.Amsterdam University Press. p. 26 note.ISBN 978-90-5356-386-1.

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