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William James Linton (1812–1897)
Linton, William James. An English wood-engraver, poet, and miscellaneous writer; born in London, 1812; died in 1897. Besides works on engraving he wrote a ‘Life of Thomas Watson’ (the Chartist leader), giving a history of the Chartist movement, in which he shared ardently; a ‘Life of Thomas Paine’; ‘Claribel and Other Poems’ (1865); ‘The Flower and the Star’ (1869); stories for children; edited ‘Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’ (1883); and was co-editor with R. H. Stoddard of ‘English Verse’ (1883).