James Hannay

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.

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

References

"Hannay, James." "British Authors of the Nineteenth Century" H.C Wilson Company, New York, 1936.

External links

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