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William Carew Hazlitt
1834–1913
Best known as W. Carew Hazlitt, he moved easily between law, literary history, and bibliography, producing a remarkable range of books on English literature, folklore, and the book trade. He also carried forward a famous family literary legacy as the grandson of essayist William Hazlitt.
5 Audiobooks
Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters A Contribution to the History of Educational Development in Great Britain
by William Carew Hazlitt
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
by William Carew Hazlitt
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
by William Carew Hazlitt
The Confessions of a Collector
by William Carew Hazlitt
Studies in jocular literature : A popular subject more closely considered
by William Carew Hazlitt
About the author
William Carew Hazlitt was an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor, and writer, born in London on August 22, 1834, and known professionally as W. Carew Hazlitt. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and later called to the bar at the Inner Temple, though he became far better known for his literary and bibliographical work than for legal practice.
He wrote and edited extensively on older English literature, antiquarian subjects, and popular traditions. His books include studies of early literature and book collecting, along with editorial work that helped preserve and reintroduce earlier texts for later readers. He was also closely connected to a notable literary family: he was the grandson of the critic and essayist William Hazlitt.
Hazlitt died on September 8, 1913. His reputation rests on the sheer breadth of his scholarship and on the energy he brought to documenting the world of books, writers, and literary history in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.