Creator Record

Metadata

Name

Linton, William James

Dates & places of birth and death

Born, December 7, 1812; Mile End, London, England
Died, December 29, 1897

Nationality

English born-American

Occupation

Wood engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction.

Notes

At Hamden Linton he wrote Practical Hints on Wood-Engraving (1879), James Watson, a Memoir of Chartist Times (1879), A History of Wood-Engraving in America (1882), Wood-Engraving, a Manual of Instruction (1884), The Masters of Wood-Engraving, for which he made two journeys to England (1890), The Life of Whittier (1893), and Memories, an autobiography (1895). He died at Hamden on 29 December 1897.