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The Original List of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700. With their Ages, the Localities where they
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origins. His father was William Hotten of Probus, Cornwall, a master carpenter and undertaker; his mother was Maria Cowling of Roche, Cornwall. At the age of fourteen Hotten was apprenticed to the London bookseller
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Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which they Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars. From MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Dept. Of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England.
217:(1874), which remains important for genealogists today, and was reprinted in 1938, 1962, and 2012. A supplemental list edited by James C. Brandow was published in 1982 under the (shortened) title 800: 98:, where he acquired a taste for rare and unusual books. He spent the period from 1848 to about 1853 in America but by mid-1855 had opened a small bookshop in London at 151a 356: 223: 177: 46: 413: 150: 902: 244: 235:
Hotten's perseverance established him among the best-known publishers, and he moved to a larger shop. In 1866, the publisher Moxon issued
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that Hotten had effectively blackmailed Swinburne into providing him with pornographic verse. Hotten subsequently published Swinburne's
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Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists…: Census Returns, Parish Registers, and Militia Rolls from the Barbados Census of 1679/80
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Hotten was the first publisher to introduce into England the humorous and other works of American writers, including
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Allison Pease, "Modernism, mass culture, and the aesthetics of obscenity", Cambridge University Press, 2000,
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The Original List of Persons who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700
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and went on to found the publishing business under his own name which after his death became
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Around 1859, Hotten married Charlotte Stringer, by whom he had three daughters.
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Simon Eliot, "Hotten: Rotten: Forgotten? An Apologia for a General Publisher",
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Screamers: a Gathering of Scraps of Humour, Delicious Bits, & Short Stories
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Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books",
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A long time burning: the history of literary censorship in England
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Hotten was also a collector, author and clandestine publisher of
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Handbook of Topography and Family History of England and Wales
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English bibliophile, lexicographer, and publisher (1832–1873)
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Literary Copyright, Seven Letters Addressed to Earl Stanhope
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Hotten contributed weekly articles of literary news to the
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Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal
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The Golden Treasury of Thought. A Gathering of Quotations
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A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words
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Hotten was born John William Hotten in Clerkenwell,
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Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 270. 378:Nuggets and Dust: Panned Out in California 148:, first published in 1859 under the title 609: 334:Hans Breitmann's Barty and other Ballads 207:Sarcastic Notices of the Long Parliament 108: 49:of all important aspects of the article. 859:, with 51 library catalogue records 821:Oxford DNB entry for John Camden Hotten 414:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 865: 693: 651: 561:Library of Congress Online Catalog at 532:Library of Congress Online Catalog at 45:Please consider expanding the lead to 724: 700:; with an introduction by J.C. Hotten 580: 483: 481: 479: 477: 475: 473: 471: 404: 247:claims in his preface to Swinburne's 835:Works by or about John Camden Hotten 18: 903:19th-century English businesspeople 846:By John Camden Hotten. 1874 ed. at 795: 487: 398: 370:Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain 211:The Little London Directory of 1677 13: 468: 14: 919: 814: 408:"Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873)" 806:Dictionary of National Biography 785: 500:Dictionary of National Biography 275:Exhibition of Female Flagellants 167:during its last year (1862); to 23: 888:Publishers (people) from London 718: 694:Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1872). 687: 663: 645: 257:William Blake: a Critical Essay 113:Grave of John Camden Hotten in 37:may be too short to adequately 628: 603: 574: 526: 507: 444: 122:Ethnological Society of London 47:provide an accessible overview 1: 739: 731:. London: John Camden Hotten. 193:(with Jacob Larwood) (1867); 883:Burials at Highgate Cemetery 610:Kendrick, Walter M. (1996). 456:. Trübner. 1869. p. xxi 438:UK public library membership 303:Biglow Papers, Second Series 284:, some in a series entitled 230: 140:Hotten was a compiler of an 7: 908:19th-century lexicographers 826:Works by John Camden Hotten 494:"Hotten, John Camden"  342:Lothaw and Sensation Novels 278:and the erotic comic opera 269:The Romance of Chastisement 120:Hotten was a member of the 10: 924: 710:: CS1 maint: postscript ( 587:Princeton University Press 237:Algernon Charles Swinburne 383: 221:. Hotten's last work was 135: 391: 281:Lady Bumtickler's Revels 563:http://catalog.loc.gov/ 534:http://catalog.loc.gov/ 357:Burlesque Autobiography 80: 898:English lexicographers 653:Thomas, Donald Serrell 423:10.1093/ref:odnb/13859 330:Charles Godfrey Leland 224:Macaulay the Historian 117: 893:English pornographers 697:Wit and humour: poems 581:Prins, Yopie (1999). 568:5 August 2012 at the 539:5 August 2012 at the 405:Eliot, Simon (2004). 318:Wit and Humour: Poems 314:Oliver Wendell Holmes 191:History of Signboards 175:(1862–3); and to the 112: 774:10.1353/bh.2000.0007 725:Twain, Mark (1871). 543:. The full title is 351:The Innocents Abroad 299:James Russell Lowell 69:(12 September 1832, 857:Library of Congress 801:Hotten, John Camden 672:Modernism/modernity 514:Hotten, John Camden 104:Chatto & Windus 853:John Camden Hotten 681:10.1353/mod.0.0065 519:2007-09-27 at the 189:, 1870, 1873; the 118: 67:John Camden Hotten 830:Project Gutenberg 436:(Subscription or 320:(1867 and 1872); 241:Poems and Ballads 203:Erckmann-Chatrian 130:Highgate Cemetery 115:Highgate Cemetery 64: 63: 915: 848:Internet Archive 839:Internet Archive 810: 789: 788: 733: 732: 722: 716: 715: 709: 701: 691: 685: 667: 661: 660: 649: 643: 632: 626: 625: 607: 601: 600: 583:Victorian Sappho 578: 572: 559: 548: 530: 524: 511: 505: 504: 496: 485: 466: 465: 463: 461: 448: 442: 441: 433: 431: 429: 410: 402: 164:Literary Gazette 142:English language 73:– 14 June 1873, 59: 56: 50: 27: 19: 923: 922: 918: 917: 916: 914: 913: 912: 863: 862: 817: 799:, ed. (1891). 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lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview
Clerkenwell
Hampstead
London
Cornish
John Petheram
Piccadilly
Chatto & Windus

Highgate Cemetery
Ethnological Society of London
Hampstead
Highgate Cemetery
English language
slang
A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words
Literary Gazette
George Godwin
London Review
Thackeray
Dickens
Erckmann-Chatrian
Macaulay the Historian
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cecil Lang
erotica
The Romance of Chastisement

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