Joseph Hatton

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Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised in Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was an English novelist and journalist.[1][2] He was Editor of The Sunday Times from 1874 to 1881.

Life[]

Hatton was born and baptised in Andover, Hampshire, but his parents, Francis Augustus and Mary Ann Hatton, moved to Chesterfield when he was young, where he later became apprenticed as a printer to his father. Hatton married Louisa Johnson and had three children: the artist Helen Howard Hatton, Bessie Lyle Hatton, and Frank Hatton.[3] His brother Joshua Hatton was also a journalist.

Hatton accompanied Henry Irving on an North American tour to write his biography.[4]

Joseph Hatton died in St John's Wood, Middlesex at the age of 70.

Works[]

Editor

Novels (incomplete) In title order:

  • Bitter Sweets: a Love Story, London, 1865
  • By Order of the Czar. A Novel, New York: John W. Lovell, 1890
  • By Order of the Czar. A drama in five acts, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904
  • Captured by Cannibals. Some incidents in the life of Horace Duran, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1888
  • Christopher Henrick: his Life and Adventures London, 1869
  • Cigarette Papers for after dinner smoking Anthony Treherne & Co.: London, 1902
  • Clytie: a Novel of Modern Life London, Guildford, 1874
  • Cruel London London, 1878
  • The Dagger and the Cross London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897
  • The Gay World London: Hurst & Blackett, 1877
  • In Male Attire: a Romance of the Day London: Hutchinson & Co., 1900
  • In the Lap of Fortune. A story stranger than fiction. London, 1873
  • John Needham's Double, London: John & Robert Maxwell, 1885 (also a play, 1891)
  • Kites and Pigeons London, 1872
  • The Park Lane Mystery: a Story of Love and Magic London, 1887
  • The Princess Mazaroff. A romance London: Hutchinson & Co., 1891
  • The Queen of Bohemia London, 1877
  • The Tallants of Barton: A Tale of Fortune and Finance, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867
  • The Valley of Poppies London: Chapman and Hall, 1871
  • Three Recruits, and the girls they left behind them London : Hurst & Blackett, 1880
  • The Old House at Sandwich, 1892
  • The White King of Manoa, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899
  • Contribution to The Fate of Fenella, 1892

Non-fiction

References[]

  1. ^ John Sutherland (1990) [1989]. "Hatton, Joseph". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 284. ISBN 9780804718424.
  2. ^ "Hatton, Joseph". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 801–802.
  3. ^ Andrew Sanders, "Hatton, Joseph Paul Christopher", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, OUP, 2004.)
  4. ^ "Mr Josseph Hatton". The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts. 1 (14): 215. 6 March 1884.

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Media offices
Preceded by
Edmund Scale 		Editor of the Sunday Times
1874–1881 		Succeeded by
Neville Bruce
Preceded by
 Editor of The People
1900–1907 		Succeeded by
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