Career

He left for England, where he became almost immediately an Anglican. He settled in London and obtained employment from booksellers, mainly devoting himself to literary criticism. Imitating some similar ventures that had been made in Holland, he began in 1710 to issue a periodical, Memoirs of Literature.’ lieutenant was brought to an end in September 1714.

There were other issues in 1717.

Early in 1717 he arranged to edit a new periodical, Bibliothèque Angloise, ou Histoire littéraire de la Grande Bretagne, in French and published at Amsterdam. He was still living for the most part in London.

The fifth volume of the Bibliothèque Angloise, dated 1719, was the last he edited. Shortly afterwards de Louisiana Roche began to edit the Mémoires Littéraires, which was published at The Hague at intervals till 1724.

In 1725 he started New Memoirs of Literature, which ran till December 1727, and finally, in 1730, A Literary Journal, or a continuation of the Memoirs of Literature, which came to an end in 1731.