See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:LINTON (1812-1897)
, See also:English See also:wood-engraver, republican and author, was See also:born in See also:London
.
He was educated at See also:Stratford, and in his sixteenth See also:year was apprenticed to the wood-engraver G
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See also:Bonner
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His earliest known See also:work is to be found in See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin and See also:Westall's Pictorial Illustrations of the See also:Bible (1833)
.
He rapidly See also:rose to a See also:place amongst the foremost wood-engravers of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
After working as a journeyman engraver with two or three firms, losing his See also:money over a cheap See also:political library called the " See also:National," and See also:writing a See also:life of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Paine, he went into See also:partnership (1842) with See also:John Orrin See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith
.
The See also:firm was immediately employed on the Illustrated London See also:News, just then projected
.
The following year Orrin Smith died, and See also:Linton, who had married a See also:sister of Thomas See also:Wade, editor of See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell's Weekly Messenger, found himself in See also:sole See also:charge of a business upon which two families were dependent
.
For years he had concerned himself with the social and See also:European political problems of the time, and was now actively engaged in the republican propaganda
.
In 1844 he took a prominent See also:part in exposing the violation by the English See also:post-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of Mazzini's See also:correspondence
.
This led to a friendship with the See also:Italian revolutionist, and Linton threw himself with ardour into European politics
.
He carried the first congratulatory address of English workmen to the See also:French Provisional See also:Government in 1848
.
He edited a twopenny weekly See also:paper, The Cause of the See also:People, published in the Isle of See also:Man, and he wrote political verses for the See also:Dublin Nation, signed " See also:Spartacus." He helped to found the " See also:International See also:League " of patriots, and, in 1850, with G
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H
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See also:Lewes and See also:Thornton See also:Hunt, started The See also:Leader, an See also:organ which, however, did not satisfy his advanced republicanism, and from which he soon withdrew
.
The same year he wrote a See also:series of articles propounding the views of Mazzini in The Red Republican
.
In 1852 he took up his See also:residence at Brantwood, which he after-wards sold to John See also:Ruskin, and from there issued The English See also:Republic, first in the See also:form of weekly tracts and afterwards as a monthly See also:magazine—" a useful exponent of republican principles, a faithful See also:record of republican progress throughout the See also:world; an organ of propagandism and a See also:medium of communication for the active republicans in See also:England." Most of the paper, which never paid its way and was abandoned in 1855, was written by himself
.
In 1852 he also printed for private circulation an See also:anonymous See also:volume of poems entitled The Plaint of Freedom
.
After the failure of his paper he returned to his proper work of wood-See also:engraving
.
In x857 his wife died, and in the following year he married Eliza See also:Lynn (afterwards known as Mrs Lynn Linton) and returned to London
.
In 1864 he retired to Brantwood, his wife remaining in London
.
In 1867, pressed by See also:financial difficulties, he determined to try his See also:fortune in See also:America, and finally separated from his wife, with whom, however, he always corresponded affectionately
.
With his See also:children he settled at Appledore, New Haven, See also:Connecticut, where he set up a See also:printing-See also:press
.
Here he wrote See also:Practical Hints on Wood-Engraving (1879), See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Watson, a Memoir of Chartist Times (1879), A See also:History of Wood-Engraving in America (1882), Wood-Engraving, a See also:Manual of Instruction (1884), The Masters of Wood-Engraving, for which he made two journeys to England (189o), The Life of See also:Whittier (1893), and Memories, an autobiography (1895)
.
He died at New Haven on the 29th of See also:December 1897
.
Linton was a singularly gifted man, who, in the words of his wife, if he had not bitten the Dead See also:Sea See also:apple of impracticable politics, would have risen higher in the world of both See also:art and letters
.
As an engraver on wood he reached the highest point of See also:execution in his own See also:line
.
He carried on the tradition of See also:Bewick, fought for intelligent as against merely manipulative excellence in the use of the graver, and championed the use of the " See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white line " as well as of the See also:black, believing with Ruskin that the former was the truer and
expression in the wood-See also:block printed upon paper
.
See W
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J
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Linton, Memories; F
.
G
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Kitton, See also:article on " Linton" in English Illustrated Magazine (See also:April 1891); G
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S
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See also:Layard, Life of Mrs Lynn Linton (1901)
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