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DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (1821-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 347 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIXON, See also:WILLIAM HEPWORTH (1821-1879) , See also:English author and traveller, was See also:born at See also:Great Ancoats, See also:Manchester, on the 3oth of See also:June 1821, a member of an old See also:Lancashire See also:family. Beginning See also:life as a clerk at Manchester, he decided, in 1846, to take up literature as a career. After gaining some journalistic experience at See also:Cheltenham he settled in. See also:London, , on the recommendation of See also:Douglas See also:Jerrold, and contributed to the See also:Athenaeum and Daily See also:News. His See also:series of papers—" The Literature of the See also:Lower Orders "—in the last-named See also:journal, and a further series, " London Prisons," were widely noticed. In 1849 appeared his See also:John See also:Howard and the See also:Prison See also:World of See also:Europe, which proved a great popular success. These were followed by a Life of William See also:Penn (1851), in which he replied to See also:Macaulay's attack on Penn; Life of See also:Blake (1852); and See also:Personal See also:History of See also:Lord See also:Bacon (1861), supplemented by The See also:Story of Lord Bacon's Life (1862). From 1853 to 1869 he was editor of the Athenaeum. In 18)53 he 'visited the See also:East, and on his return helped to found the See also:Palestine Exploration Fund, and published (1865) The See also:Holy See also:Land. In 1866 he travelled through the See also:United States, See also:publishing, in 1867, New See also:America, and, the following See also:year, Spiritual Wives, two supplementary volumes. In the autumn of 1867 he journeyed through the Baltic Provinces, publishing an See also:account of his trip in See also:Free See also:Russia (1870). In 1871 he was in See also:Switzerland, and in 1872 in See also:Spain, where he wrote the greater See also:part of his History of Two Queens.

In 1874 he revisited the United States, giving the impressions of his tour in The See also:

White See also:Conquest (1875). His other See also:works, besides some fiction, were See also:British See also:Cyprus (1879) and Royal See also:Windsor. He died on the 26th of See also:December 1879. His daughter, See also:Ella N. Hepworth Dixon, became known as a journalist and novelist.

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