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William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. [1] He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner . He was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton , and he served as a member of parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 ...
Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford.It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley [1] in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated ...
Azemia is a satirical novel, written by William Thomas Beckford, that was first published in 1797. The book parodies what Beckford considered sensationalist writing, as well as political issues of the time. [1]
Includes William Beckford's Vathek and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1832 text) alongside The Castle of Otranto. Walpole, Horace, The Castle of Otranto (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780198704447. With an introduction and note by Nick Groom. Walpole, Horace, The Castle of Otranto (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1963).
William Thomas Beckford, Vathek (1786) Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, El Monte de las Ánimas (1861) Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la nuit (1842) Alexander Bestuzhev, Eisen Castle (1827), An Evening at a Caucasian Spa in 1824 (1830), The Cuirassier (1831) and The Terrible Fortune-Telling (1831)
Sir William Beckford (December 1709 – 21 June 1770) was a British Whig politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769. One of the best known political figures in Georgian era London, his vast wealth derived from the sugar plantations and hundreds of slaves he owned in the British colony of Jamaica .
William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]
Title page of A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica, Volume 1, 1790 by William Beckford. Printed for T and J Egerton. Printed for T and J Egerton. Title page of Thomas Egerton's book catalogue of 1798
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