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William Linton was born on December 7, 1812 in London, United Kingdom.
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William Linton was born on December 7, 1812 in London, United Kingdom.
He was educated at Stratford, and in his sixteenth year was apprenticed to the wood-engraver G. W. Bonner.
Linton's earliest known work is to be found in Martin and Westall's Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible (1833).
He rapidly rose to a place amongst the foremost wood-engravers of the time.
After working as a journeyman engraver with two or three firms, losing his money over a cheap political library called the "National, " and writing a life of Thomas Paine, he went into partnership (1842) with John Orrin Smith.
The firm was immediately employed on the Illustrated London News, just then projected.
The following year Orrin Smith died, and Linton, who had married a sister of Thomas Wade, editor of Bell's Weekly Messenger, found himself in sole charge of a business upon which two families were dependent.
In 1844 he took a prominent part in exposing the violation by the English post-office of Mazzini's correspondence.
He carried the first congratulatory address of English workmen to the French Provisional Government in 1848.
He edited a two-penny weekly paper, The Cause of the People, published in the Isle of Man, and he wrote political verses for the Dublin Nation, signed "Spartacus. "
He helped to found the "International League" of patriots, and, in 1850, with G. H. Lewes and Thornton Hunt, started The Leader, an organ which, however, did not satisfy his advanced republicanism, and from which he soon withdrew.
The same year he wrote a series of articles propounding the views of Mazzini in The Red Republican.
In 1852 he took up his residence at Brantwood, which he afterwards sold to John Ruskin, and from there issued The English Republic, first in the form of weekly tracts and afterwards as a monthly magazine - "a useful exponent of republican principles, a faithful record of republican progress throughout the world; an organ of propagandism and a medium of communication for the active republicans in England. "
Most of the paper, which never paid its way and was abandoned in 1855, was written by himself.
In 1852 he also printed for private circulation an anonymous volume of poems entitled The Plaint of Freedom.
After the failure of his paper he returned to his proper work of wood-engraving.
In 1864 he retired to Brantwood, his wife remaining in London.
In 1867, pressed by financial difficulties, he determined to try his fortune in America.
With his children he settled at Appledore, New Haven, Connecticut, where he set up a printing-press.
Here he wrote Practical Hints on Wood-Engraving (1879), James Watson, a Memoir of Chartist Times (1879), A History of Wood- Engraving in America (1882), Wood-Engraving, a Manual of Instruction (1884), The Masters of Wood-Engraving, for which he made two journeys to England (1890), The Life of Whittier (1893), and Memories, an autobiography (1895).
Linton was a singularly gifted man, who, in the words of his wife, if he had not bitten the Dead Sea apple of impracticable politics, would have risen higher in the world of both art and letters.
As an engraver on wood he reached the highest point of execution in his own line.
He carried on the tradition of Bewick, fought for intelligent as against merely manipulative excellence in the use of the graver, and championed the use of the "white line" as well as of the black, believing with Ruskin that the former was the truer and more telling basis of aesthetic expression in the wood-block printed upon paper.
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He married a sister of Thomas Wade. In 1857 his wife died, and in the following year he married Eliza Lynn (afterwards known as Mrs Lynn Linton) In 1867 he separated from his wife, with whom, however, he always corresponded affectionately.