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William James Linton was born on December 7, 1812 in London, the grandson of an Aberdeen ship-carpenter who had settled in London as a builder. From him, says Linton, "I perhaps inherited some tendency to radicalism".
The young Linton was educated at Chigwell Grammar School. He received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale in 1891.
Linton was apprenticed in 1828 to George Wilmot Bonner, wood-engraver, later he worked for John Orrin Smith, whose partner he became in 1842. About this time he did much engraving for the Illustrated London News. Meanwhile he espoused the cause of personal liberty, going into the Chartist movement, and, says Richard Garnett, "beyond it in professing himself a republican". In close contact with Henry Hetherington, he edited the Odd Fellow (April 1841 - August 1842), opposed the "laws then gagging the press, " became deeply interested in the plans of Mazzini, was the friend of Italian and Polish reformers, and was concerned in the publication of the National (1839), the Leader (1850), the English Republic (1851 - 1855) and the Northern Tribune (1854). He engaged also in purely literary activities, was intimate with the group of R. H. Horne, succeeded Douglas Jerrold as editor of the Illuminated Magazine (1845), and wrote a Life of Paine (1839), To the Future (1848), The Plaint of Freedom (1852), and Claribel and Other Poems (1865).
In addition, he established his reputation as a wood-engraver, doing notable work for the Moxon Tennyson (1857) and Milton's L'Allegro (1859). "In 1866, " he wrote, "I had little occupation in England. .. . So in November of that year I crossed the ocean to New York". Here he taught wood-engraving at the Cooper Union (1868 - 1870) and worked for Frank Leslie's Illustrated News. Among American books illustrated with his engravings, many after his own designs, were Whittier's Snow-Bound (1868); J. G. Holland's Katrina (1869); Longfellow's Building of the Ship (1870), and Edwin Booth in Twelve Dramatic Characters (1872), both from drawings by W. J. Hennessy; W. C. Bryant's Thanatopsis (1878) and The Flood of Years (1878). The last-named included his "most ambitious pieces of imaginative work" and occasioned his own poetical Interpretations of the designs, printed by him in three copies. He also contributed to other books and to Scribner's and The Century.
He became an academician of the National Academy of Design in 1882. His engravings have distinction, and show that firmness and honesty which he himself called "the first qualification of an engraver. " He was an adherent of the "white line, " and believed that the engraver should draw with the graver and be an interpreting artist. About 1877 there arose the "new school" of American wood-engravers, finding first vigorous expression in the blocks by Frederick Juengling after James E. Kelly. The work of this school showed some vagaries, especially a sometimes slavish devotion to the rendering of details in texture. Linton's warning against a tendency to give substance rather than spirit was denounced. Thereupon he wrote Some Practical Hints on Wood-Engraving for the Instruction of Reviewers and the Public (1879) and The History of Wood-Engraving in America (1882). In the latter indispensable reference book, commenting critically on the "new school, " he ends: "Notwithstanding all my censures, the revival of wood-engraving is in their hands. They will outgrow their mistakes. " In 1884 he also published Wood-Engraving: A Manual of Instruction.
Linton removed, probably in the early seventies, to Hamden, near New Haven, Connecticut, established the Appledore Press, and from 1878 on issued books, pamphlets, and leaflets in limited editions. In 1882 he published The Golden Apples of Hesperus: Poems not in the Collections --"the whole of it, drawing, engraving, composition, and printing the work of my own hands"--and Masters of Wood-Engraving. The latter was printed, in three copies, to serve as a model for the London publication of 1889. His last publication was Darwin's Probabilities: A Review of his Descent of Man (1896). He died in New Haven, at the house of Thomas W. Mather.
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Linton was engaged in the republican propaganda.
Linton was aggressively vigorous in asserting his beliefs, "amiable and helpful, full of kind actions and generous enthusiasms"; "obstinate and affectionate, and intolerant of interference".
Linton married, about 1836, a sister of Thomas Wade, the poet; after her death, another sister (died in 1855); and in 1858, Eliza Lynn, the novelist. The last marriage was ended by amicable separation. His daughter Margaret was married to Thomas W. Mathe in February 1875.