- Francis Hackett
Francis Hackett was born in
Kilkenny ,Ireland in 1883 to the daughter of a farmer and a medical officer. He is most famous for writing a detailed book aboutHenry VIII but was also a noted critic and published several other books most of which were either non-fiction or biographies."Hackett immigrated to the United States in 1901 for various reasons, among them being his dissatisfaction with the British Government ruling Ireland, and his family’s inability to finance his college education. When he arrived in New York he published articles in Standish O’Grady’s "All Ireland Review", Arthur Griffith’s "United Irishmen", and Samuel Richardson’s "The Gael". Hackett took a series of jobs as a clerk in a law firm, for the advertising department of
Cosmopolitan Magazine, and literary editor of various periodicals, such as the "Chicago Evening Post". In 1906 Hackett moved into Hull-House and taught English to Russian Immigrants. As writer and critic, Hackett attacked Chicago’s genteel and commercial cultures, racism, and the subordination of women. He left his position as literary editor of the Post in 1911 to pursue a career as a novelist." (http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/hist/hull-maxwell/vicinity/nws1/documents/hackett-introduction.PDF)Hackett died in 1962.
Some of his books include:
*PERSONAL HISTORY OF HENRY THE EIGHTH; London, Jonathan Cape. 1929
*FRANCIS THE FIRST;
*Queen Anne Boleyn: A Novel;
*The Green Lion;
*Horizons: A Book Of Criticism;
*American Rainbow: Early Reminiscences"
External links
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhackett.htm/ Brief details on Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk]
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