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JOSEPH VANCE AN ILLWRITTEN ATUOBIOGRAPHY
Author: WILLIAM DE MORGAN

JOSEPH VANCE AN ILL-WRITTEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN -- Born 69 Gower Street, London, 16 November 1839 Died 127 Church Street, Chelsea, London -- INTRODUCTION To become an immediately popular and intellectually respectable novelist with a first book of the immense length of over 250,000 words written in his sixties after a lifetime o... more »f entirely different work to follow that with eight more long novels which, together, caused reputable critics to place him with Dickens and Thackeray, Meredith and Hardy such was William De Morgans unparalleled achievement in the years preceding his death in 19 I 7 at the age of seventy-seven. No small part of the achievement lay in regaining approval for novels of Victorian amplitude and leisured progress in a period when the economics of publishing and the trend of public taste set go, ooo words and a fastmoving plot as prerequisites for successful fiction. Almost simultaneously with De Morgans death, however, a new generation of writers was launchinganother type of novel Virginia Woolfs first came out in 1915 in which the telling of a story was to count for less and less and firm delineation of character was to be superseded by indirect evocation of personality. Amid such changes the novels of William De Morgan were for a while obscured but their roots were deep in the soil of the English literary tradition, and, half a century or so after the period in which De Morgan was writing, few English novels contemporary with Joseph Vance appeared so healthily constituted for survival. William De Morgan came of a family of Anglo-Indians of Huguenot descent who were soldiers in the service of the East India Company from 1710 until Colonel John De Morgan, an ardent Evangelical known 1 The main source of factual information is Mrs. A. W. M. Stirlings William De Morgan and his Wife Thornton Butterworth, London, 1922. viii INTRODUCTION in India as Bible John, settled his wife and family of seven children in England before he died in 1816. His fifth child, Augustus, inherited mathematical talent from his mothers grandfather, James Dodson, F. R. S., though at Cambridge Augustus developed an insatiable appetite for the reading of novels, an interest which he evidently communicated in a creative form, pre-natally, to his son William, the future novelist for Augustus himself it led to near-ignominy, since he left Cambridge in 1827 no better than a fourth wrangler. Augustus elected to read for the Bar as the only convenient alternative to the Church, from which his distaste for the Thirty-nine Articles excluded him. In the early I ZOhSo, w ever, he was drawn into the movement for starting a university at which no religious tests should be applied, and in 1826-7 University College was established on that principle at Gower Street, London, to become in due course the centre around which the University of London grew. Augustus De Morgan, the youngest of thirty-two candidates, was appointed Professor of Mathematics and with a break from I 83 I to 1836 occupied the Chair until he resigned in 1866, as a protest against the creeping-in of denominational prejudice which the College had been founded to abjure. He had married in 1837 Sophia Elizabeth Frend, whose father William Frend took Orders but subsequently left the Church on a matter of conscience and then became a successful actuary. Like his parents, Augustus and Sophia had seven children, William, the second child and eldest of three sons, being born at 69 Gower Street on 16 November 1839...

ISBN-13: 9781408631003
ISBN-10: 1408631008
Publication Date: 10/26/2007
Pages: 624
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Publisher: Hervey Press
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