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- John Forster (2 April 1812 – 2 February 1876) was a Victorian English biographer and literary critic.
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John Forster (2 April 1812 – 2 February 1876) was a Victorian English biographer and literary critic. Life. Forster was born at "a little yellow house" in Fenkle Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, second of four children of Unitarian cattle-dealer Robert Forster (died 1836) and Mary (c. 1780-1852), daughter of a Gallowgate dairy farm keeper. [1] .
John Forster was a writer and journalist, a notable figure in mid-19th-century literary London who, through his friendship with the influential editor Leigh Hunt, became adviser, agent, and proofreader to many leading writers of the day.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Seymour's first sketch was of a long, thin man. The present immortal one he made from my description of a friend of mine at Richmond, a fat old beau who would wear, in spite of the ladies' protests, drab tights and black gaiters. His name was John Foster."
Jul 31, 2004 · John Forster (1812-1876) edited the Foreign Quarterly Review, the Daily News, and The Examiner (1847-56). He produced an admirable series of essays dealing with the seventeenth-century Puritan Commonwealth: Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth (1836-9), Arrest of Five Members (1860), Debates on the Grand Remonstrance (1860), and Sir John ...
John Forster (1812-1876) was an English biographer, a critic and a friend of Charles Dickens. He contributed to The True Sun, The Morning Chronicle and The Examiner, of which he was literary and dramatic critic.
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- February 2, 1876
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Nov 28, 2000 · John Forster (1812-1876) was a noted biographer, critic, essayist and historian, probably best remembered for his biography of his close friend, the novelist Charles Dickens (1812- 1870). In the course of his life Forster collected a vast library, mainly, but not exclusively, of books and pamphlets.
John Forster (1812-1876) has traditionally been glimpsed almost exclusively via his relationships with key nineteenth-century figures such as Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.
