Joseph Hatton

{{Short description|English novelist]] Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised in Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was an English novelist and journalist.[1][2] He was Editor of The Sunday Times from 1874 to 1881.

Life

Hatton was born and baptised in Andover, Hampshire, but his parents, Francis Augustus and Mary Ann Hatton, moved to Chesterfield when he was young, where he later became apprenticed as a printer to his father. Hatton married Louisa Johnson and had three children: the artist Helen Howard Hatton, Bessie Lyle Hatton, and Frank Hatton.[3] His brother Joshua Hatton was also a journalist.

Hatton accompanied Henry Irving on an North American tour to write his biography.[4]

Joseph Hatton died in St John's Wood, Middlesex at the age of 70.

Works

Editor

Novels (incomplete) In title order:

  • Bitter Sweets: a Love Story, London, 1865
  • By Order of the Czar. A Novel, New York: John W. Lovell, 1890
  • By Order of the Czar. A drama in five acts, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904
  • Captured by Cannibals. Some incidents in the life of Horace Duran, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1888
  • Christopher Henrick: his Life and Adventures London, 1869
  • Cigarette Papers for after dinner smoking Anthony Treherne & Co.: London, 1902
  • Clytie: a Novel of Modern Life London, Guildford, 1874
  • Cruel London London, 1878
  • The Dagger and the Cross London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897
  • The Gay World London: Hurst & Blackett, 1877
  • In Male Attire: a Romance of the Day London: Hutchinson & Co., 1900
  • In the Lap of Fortune. A story stranger than fiction. London, 1873
  • John Needham's Double, London: John & Robert Maxwell, 1885 (also a play, 1891)
  • Kites and Pigeons London, 1872
  • The Park Lane Mystery: a Story of Love and Magic London, 1887
  • The Princess Mazaroff. A romance London: Hutchinson & Co., 1891
  • The Queen of Bohemia London, 1877
  • The Tallants of Barton: A Tale of Fortune and Finance, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867
  • The Valley of Poppies London: Chapman and Hall, 1871
  • Three Recruits, and the girls they left behind them London : Hurst & Blackett, 1880
  • The Old House at Sandwich, 1892
  • The White King of Manoa, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899
  • Contribution to The Fate of Fenella, 1892

Non-fiction

References
  1. John Sutherland (1990) [1989]. "Hatton, Joseph". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 284.
  2. "Hatton, Joseph". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 801–802.
  3. Andrew Sanders, "Hatton, Joseph Paul Christopher", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, OUP, 2004.)
  4. "Mr Josseph Hatton". The Week: a Canadian journal of politics, literature, science and arts. 1 (14): 215. 6 March 1884.
Media offices
Preceded by
Edmund Scale		 Editor of the Sunday Times
1874–1881		 Succeeded by
Neville Bruce
Preceded by
Harry Benjamin Vogel		 Editor of The People
1900–1907		 Succeeded by
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