Kyle Grimes
NOTES
1. See http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/hone/contents.htm and http://honearchive.org/etexts/ManMoon/ManMoon-intro.html.
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2. See http://honearchive.org/etexts/right-divine/right-divine-home.html.
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3. Jure Divino is available in Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=pE0JAAAAQAAJ and in Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). A Hone/Defoe parallel text PDF of the opening lines is available at http://english.illinoisstate.edu/digitaldefoe/features/defoehoneparallelbk1.pdf.
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4. Chalmers’s book was the first biography of Defoe to be produced according to recognizably systematic research. Virtually all the biographical accounts of Defoe over the subsequent four decades—including the 1809 Ballantyne / Walter Scott Biographical Memoir—rely on Chalmers. Chalmers’s Life was not supplanted until the 1830 publication of Wilson’s painstaking three-volume Memoir, and Wilson himself acknowledges his debt to Chalmers in his introductory paragraphs: “Some important facts connected with [Defoe’s] history would probably have been lost, had it not been for the timely discoveries of Mr. Chalmers; the admirers of De Foe are therefore under considerable obligations to that gentleman, for the zeal and perseverance which enabled him to produce such successful results” (vii). For a detailed consideration of the development of Defoe’s reputation, with brief chapters on Chalmers and Wilson, see P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe. It should also be noted that we are here dealing with a period prior to the 1864 discovery and publication of the letters revealing that Defoe had been, in effect, a government spy in the employ of Robert Harley.
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5. Letter from John Childs to William Hone, February 1, 1819, British Library, Add. MS 40120, ff. 116–17. Childs became acquainted with Hone after the latter’s famous trials in late 1817. The two maintained a life-long friendship and correspondence which, though still unpublished, is remarkable for its wit, humor, and insights into the aims and methods of the radical and dissenting publishers of the day.
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6. Among the most useful modern accounts of Jure Divino are Paula Backscheider’s “The Verse Essay, John Locke, and Defoe’s Jure Divino” and John Richetti’s The Life of Daniel Defoe, esp. pp. 103–10. See also Michael Austin, “Saul and the Social Contract: Constructions of 1 Samuel 8–11 in Cowley’s Davideis and Defoe’s Jure Divino”; chapter 3 of Katherine Clark, Daniel Defoe: The Whole Frame of Nature; D. N. DeLuna, “Jure Divino: Defoe’s ‘Whole Volume in Folio, by Way of Answer to, and Confutation of Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion’”; and chapters 10 and 11 of Andreas K.E. Mueller, A Critical Study of Daniel Defoe’s Verse: Recovering the Neglected Corpus of His Poetic Work.
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7. Letter from Godwin to Joseph Planter, February 1, 1818, Adelphi University, Hone Collection, Series 1C, bx. 4, fol. 2.
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8. See also the letter from Wilson to Hone, July 1818, British Library Add. MS 40120, ff. 102–103
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9. Letter from Hone to Childs, February 1819, reprinted in Hackwood, 212. Interestingly, the letter goes on to describe a dinner that Hone had just shared with William Hazlitt. Hone concludes his comments about his dinner and his recently concluded contract to publish Hazlitt’s Political Essays: “Hazlitt is a De Foeite.”
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10. See, for example, the Hone / Cruikshank pamphlets The Political House that Jack Built (1819), The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder (1820), and Non Mi Ricordo! (1820).
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11. See http://honearchive.org/etexts/right-divine/right-divine-front.html.
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12. For a more detailed explanation of this context, see paragraph 2 of the “Editor’s Introduction” at http://honearchive.org/etexts/right-divine/right-divine-intro.html.
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Adelphi University, Hone Collection, Series 1C, bx. 4, fol. 2.
British Library, Hone Papers, Add. MS 40120, ff. 102–103, 116–117.Printed Sources
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