Author name: William James Linton

William James Linton (December 7, 1812 – December 29, 1897) was an English-born American wood-engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction. He edited a twopenny weekly paper, The Cause of the People, published in the Isle of Man, and he wrote political verse for the Dublin Nation, signed "Spartacus." Among his published works are a book titled, "James Watson, a Memoir of Chartist Times" (1879).

Linton’s Comments on Paine’s Habits

William James Linton / November 1, 1880

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To the Editor of SCRIBNER’S MONTHLY: SIR: The extensive circulation of SCRIBNER’S MONTHLY may, I hope, be sufficient reason for your allowing me to correct a statement in your columns which is likely to produce a false impression. The statement for which I complain is in the following sentence, at page 32 of the number […]

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Linton’s “Life of Paine”

William James Linton / January 1, 1849

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The object of the present work is to place before the public, at a low price, a concise and impartial history of the life of Thomas Paine; so that the people who have been so grossly misled in regard to his real character.

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