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John Dunton was born at Graffham, Huntingdonshire. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been clergymen.
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John Dunton was born at Graffham, Huntingdonshire. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been clergymen.
At the age of fifteen John was apprenticed to Thomas Parkhurst, bookseller, at the sign of the Bible and Three Crowns, Cheapside, London.
During the struggle which led to the Revolution, Dunton was the treasurer of the Whig apprentices. He became a bookseller at the sign of the Raven, near the Royal Exchange. In 1686, probably because he was concerned in the Monmouth rising, he visited New England, where he stayed eight months selling books and observing with interest the new country and its inhabitants. Dunton had become security for his brother’s debts, and to escape the creditors he made a short excursion to Holland. On his return to England, he opened a new shop in the Poultry in the hope of better times.
Here he published weekly the Athenian Mercury which professed to answer all questions on history, philosophy, love, marriage and things in general. He spent the last years of his life in great poverty. He died in 1733.
He wrote many books and a number of political squibs on the Whig side, but only his Life and Errors of John Dunton (1705), on account of its naïveté, its pictures of bygone times, and of the literary history of the period, is remembered. His letters from New England were published in America in 1867.
John Dunton was the founder of the Athenian Society which published "The Athenian Mercury". It was the first major popular periodical and first miscellaneous periodical in England. In 1693, The Athenian Society published also "The Ladies' Mercury", the first periodical specifically designed just for women. One of his well-known works was the book "Life and Errors of John Dunton".
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Dunton married Elizabeth Annesley. His wife managed his business, so that he was left free in a great measure to follow his own eccentric devices. His wife died in 1697, and he married a second time but a quarrel about property led to their separation.
