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Henry Wood wrote in 1860, and which won a prize of one hundred pounds from the Scottish Temperance League because of its description of the evils of drink; this was the first of Mrs.
Henry Wood's remarkable flow of novels, all of which were extremely popular— and all of which were of a determinedly moral tendency.
There was one, HenryCockton, whom you may well be excused for not knowing, who wrote a very popular book called Valentine Vox (1840), which was a furious attack on the private asylums for the insane that during the nineteenth century served very often as prisons for inconvenient relatives.
The second of Cockton's nine novels, published the same year as the English triple-decker, described by Cohn as "extremely rare." A comic novel about an English cad who is eventually reformed.
Internally the book is foxed on the prelims and to a lesser extent, on some of the pages with brown spotting to the page fore edges but is still a rare copy.
The first volume of the paper ended with the close of 1842, and with the new year several improvements were introduced.
HenryCockton, whose "Valentine Vox" was the success of 1840, contributed a story called "A Romance of Real Life," and stories by Thomas Miller ("The Basket Maker") and others followed.
Henry Vizetelly who led the assault upon what had hitherto proved to be a sucessful monopoly of Mr.
Henry Cockton - LoveToKnow 1911(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
HENRYCOCKTON (1807-18J3), English humorous novelist, was born in London on the 7th of December 1807.
He published a number of volumes, but is best known as the author of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist (1840) and Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist (1844).
Thus of Algebra; which is, or should be, defined as "a mode of computing with symbols by means of signs." With numbers, as Algebra, it has nothing to do; and although no algebraic computation can proceed without numbers, yet Algebra is only such to the extent of its analysis, independently of its Arithmetic.
By HenryCockton, Esq., Author of "Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist," etc., with Numerous Illustrations, designed by Cruikshank, Leech, etc., engraved and by Yeager.
We do not mean to find fault with the class of performances of which "Stanley Thorn" is one.
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Hands up, those who have read, or even heard of, The Atonement of Leam Dundas by E. Lynn Linton, or Valentine Vox by HenryCockton.
I calculate that about 40 of these novels have vanished so completely that only academics or those in search of an unexplored subject for a PhD thesis will ever now come across them.
Sons and Lovers, chosen by Claire Tomalin, may be read as a historical curiosity only.
During this time, he is reading extensively and widely such authors, playwrights and poets as Tom Taylor, John Horne Tooke, Richard Monckton Milnes (life of Keats), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, HenryCockton, James and Horatio Smith, John William Burgon, William Shakespeare, Dinah Mulock (Mrs.
The old Dean of Christ Church dies, and Henry George Liddell (father of Alice) is appointed to replace him.
He makes a trip to Whitburn to visit his Wilcox cousins, and meets the young Frederica Liddell, the daughter of Henry Liddell's cousin, and strikes up an early child-friendship.
Demy 8vo; half-title not called for; steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Cockton by J. Welton after J.W. Childe; numerous wood-engravings in text; last leaf a singleton; later quarter light brown cloth ruled and lettered gilt on spine, marbled boards.
Demy 8vo; half-title not called for; frontispiece portrait of Cockton by J. Welton after J.W. Childe, and non-conjugate engraved title-page by Onwhyn, precede letterpress title-page; forty-three spirited plates by Onwhyn; pp.xvi+367+[i (blank)]; dark green fine diaper cloth, ruled, blocked, and with publisher's monogram blind, on sides, lettered and pictorially blocked gilt on spine; a.e.
The case is a half inch taller than the sheets, which have here been trimmed at all edges, suggesting that it may be an unsold case prepared for purchasers of the original - and untrimmed - parts.
It is a miracle that they exist at all, produced, as they were in cheap and perishable form for a public who wanted blood and thunder.
Some of these sensational works sold for a penny, others for sixpence and even a shilling, in the case of authors like HenryCockton, whose works contained plates and were more pretentious.
These latter works which I have classed with "shilling shockers" might be regarded as on the fringes of the more conventional fiction described above.
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All entries for the name COCKTON held within the Gravestone Photographic Resource
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The ENGLISH LIBRARY was a reprint magazine with several serial parts per issue and the occasional short story as padding.
Authors who appeared in this series include Albert Smith, Capt. Maryatt, W. Carleton, J. Cooper, Bulwer Lytton, Mary Shelley, Robert Paltock, G. Reynolds, Paul de Kock, Victor Hugo, Laurence Sterne, HenryCockton, George Sand, W. Thackeray, Tobias Smollett, Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, etc." (John Eggeling, May-2001)
The earliest issue appeared in the World War II era but has not been seen.
It was engineered by Pat Moran and produced by Steve Smith.
It was based upon a book by the author HenryCockton - anybody got a copy?
My old mate and Brewer's Droop frontman, Ron Watts now has his autobiography in print:
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'PICKWICK ABROAD, or The Tour in France' in DICKS ENGLISH LIBRARY. - REYNOLDS, G. W. M.,(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
REYNOLDS, G. 'PICKWICK ABROAD, or The Tour in France' in DICKS ENGLISH LIBRARY.
¶ Contains 5 complete novels: Pickwick Abroad; The Sisters, by HenryCockton; Rita, by Eugene Sue; Pamela, by Richardson; & Life of an Actor, by Pierce Egan.
Offered by: Tavistock Books, ABAA - Book number: 4717
