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词条 Edward Kimber
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  1. Life

  2. Works

  3. Notes

Edward Kimber (1719–1769) was an English novelist, journalist and compiler of reference works.

Life

He was son of Isaac Kimber;[1] and in early life apprentice to a bookseller, John Noon of Cheapside.[2] He made a living by compilation and editorial work for booksellers.[1]

Kimber spent the years 1742 to 1744 in British North America, and drew on his travels in subsequent writing.[3] In 1745–6 he published a series of Itinerant Observations in America in The London Magazine, at that point edited by his father.[4]

Works

Kimber wrote:[1]

  • A Relation, or Journal, of a Late Expedition to the Gates of St. Augustine, on Florida (1744). Kimber had served in the militia of James Oglethorpe, and participated in a raid in 1743 that was a sequel to the 1740 siege of St. Augustine, Florida.[5]
  • The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson, a Narrative founded on fact, written by himself [anon.], 2 vols., London, 1750; other editions, 1751, 1775, 1783. A French translation appeared in 1762. A "ramble novel", it sold well at the time, and was then condemned to neglect.[6]
  • The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson (1754).[5] A sentimental novel, it was based on a real-life narrative Kimber had heard in Georgia.[7][8] Kimber denounced slavery, but is now found to be equivocal on the related issue, in the American context, of white supremacy.[9]
  • The Life and Adventures of James Ramble (1754)[5]
  • The Juvenile Adventures of David Ranger (1756)[5]
  • The Life, Extraordinary Adventures, Voyages, and Surprizing Escapes of Capt. Neville Frowde, of Cork (1758)[5]
  • The Happy Orphans (1759), translation from the French.[5] The French original of 1754 was itself imitated from the Fortunate Foundlings of Eliza Haywood.[10]
  • Maria: The Genuine Memoirs of an Admired Lady of Rank and Fortune (1764)[5]
  • The Generous Briton: or, the Authentic Memoirs of William Goldsmith (1765)[5]
  • The Peerage of England, London, 1766; 2nd edit. 1769.
  • The Peerage of Scotland, London, 1767.
  • The Peerage of Ireland, London, 1768.
  • The Extinct Peerage of England, London, 1769.

He also wrote memoirs of his father, together with a poem to his memory, prefixed to Isaac Kimber's Sermons, 1756. With Richard Johnson he edited and continued Thomas Wooton's Baronetage of England, 3 vols., London, 1771.[1]

Notes

1. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle=Kimber, Edward|volume=31}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Charles N. Baldwin|title=A Universal Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5UXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA268|year=1842|publisher=Grigg & Elliot|page=268}}
3. ^{{cite ODNB|id=15547|title=Kimber, Edward|first=Jeffrey|last=Herrie}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=Kevin J. Hayes|title=The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gH9Csi8cVWIC&pg=PA527|date=6 February 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-518727-4|page=527}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=Edward Kimber|title=The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxOtaJaYlQsC&pg=PA35|date=13 November 2008|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-55111-703-4|pages=35–6}}
6. ^{{cite book|author1=Catherine E. Ingrassia|author2=Jeffrey S. Ravel|title=Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8iwX-kbPIVgC&pg=PA285|date=30 March 2005|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8192-3|page=285}}
7. ^{{cite book|author=Gary L. Ebersole|title=Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDhkaIxzYxcC&pg=PA110|year=1995|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-1607-1|page=110}}
8. ^{{cite book|author=Eve Tavor Bannet|title=Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810: Migrant Fictions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HvkBboFFAj8C&pg=PA4|date=7 July 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49761-9|page=4}}
9. ^{{cite book|author=George Boulukos|title=The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8CG_RS-5JsC&pg=PA126|date=10 April 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-88571-3|page=126}}
10. ^{{cite book|author=Betty A. Schellenberg|title=The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIvHtw8Ttk8C&pg=PA128|date=10 June 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85060-5|page=128}}
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