James Hannay
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James Hannay (17 February 1827 - 9 January 1873), novelist and journalist, was born at Dumfries, Scotland, and at age 13 joined the Royal Navy from which he was dismissed 5 years later. The greater part of his career was occupied with miscellaneous journalism in England and Scotland. In 1850 he was a contributor to Punch and edited the Edinburgh Courant from 1860-1864. For the last five years of his life he was British Consul at Barcelona.
[edit] Principal Works
- Biscuits and Grog, 1848
- A Claret-Cup, 1848
- Hearts are Trumps, 1848
- King Dobbs, 1849
- Blackwood v Carlyle, 1850
- Singleton Fontenoy, 1850
- The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: With a Notice of His Life and Genius, 1853
- Sketches in ultra-Marine, 1853
- Sand and Shells, 1854
- Satire and satirists. Six lectures, 1854
- Eustace Conyers, 1855
- Essays from The Quarterly Review, 1861
- A Brief Memoir of the Late Mr. Thackeray, 1864
- Characters and Criticisms, 1865
- A course of English literature, 1866
- Three hundred years of a Norman house; the barons of Gournay from the 10th to the 13th century, with genealogical miscellanies, 1867
- Studies on Thackeray, 1869
[edit] References
"Hannay, James." British Authors of the Nineteenth Century H.C Wilson Company, New York, 1936.
