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Thomas Hood

Male : Poet, humorist, editor and punster. Married Jane Reynolds 1824. Fled to Germany in 1835 to escape his creditors. Returned 1840, receiving a civil pension in 1844. For most of his life he struggled with TB
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1798 Date of Death : 1845 Age : 46
1825-1830
Odes and Addresses to Great People
(1825 Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, London)
- with J Hamilton Reynolds
Whims and Oddities in Prose & Verse : 1st Series
(1826 Lupton Relfe, London)
Whims and Oddities in Prose & Verse : 2nd Series
(1826 Charles Tilt, London)
National Tales
(1827 Wm H Ainsworth, London) - 2 vols. T Dighton
The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero & Leander, Lycus the Centaur, & Other Poems
(1827 Longman)
The Epping Hunt
(1829 Charles Tilt) - George Cruikshank
The Comic Annual : Vol 1
(1830 Hurst Chance)
The Comic Annual : Vols 2-5
(1830-35 Charles Tilt)

1831-1840
The Dream of Eugene Aram the Murderer
(1831 Charles Tilt) - W Harvey
[Aram was a master at King's Lynn Grammar School, but was arrested for murder in 1758]
Whims and Oddities in Prose & Verse : Both Series
(1832 Charles Tilt)
Tylney Hall
(1834 A H Bailey) - 3 vols
The Comic Annual : Vols 6-11
(1836-42 A H Bailey) - No vol issued 1840-1
Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year : 1st Series
(1839 A H Bailey, London)
Up the Rhine
(1840 A H Bailey, London)

1841-1850
The Song of the Shirt
(1844)
Hood's Magazine & Comic Miscellany - 3 vols
(1844-5 H Renshaw)
Whimsicalities, a Periodical Gathering
(1844 Colburn, London) - 2 vols. Leech
Poems of Wit and Humour
(1844 Moxon)
Poems Serious
(1846 Moxon) - 2 vols

1851-1860
Lamia
(1852)
The Headlong Career and Woeful Ending of Precocious Piggy
(1859 Griffith & Farran) - Thomas Hood jnr
Memorials of Thomas Hood
(1860 Moxon, London) (1860 Ticknor & Fields) - 2 vols
Poems
(c1860 Moxon)

1861-1870
Fairyland, or Recreation for the Rising Generation
(1861 Griffith & Farran)
Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year : 2nd Series
(1861 Moxon) - Edited by Thomas Hood Jr.
Fairy Realm : A Collection of Favourite Old Tales
(1865 Ward Lock & Tyler) - Gustave Dore
Offered for £300 in 1996
The Works
(1862-3 Moxon) - 7 vols (1869 Moxon, London 2nd Ed) - 10 vols
Great Fun Stories
(1866 Sampson Low Martson) - with Thomas Archer
Early Poems and Sketches
(1869 Moxon)
Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg : A Golden Legend
(1870 Moxon) - Thomas S Seccombe

1871-1900
Poetical Works
(1871 Moxon) - Gustave Dore & A Thompson
Poems : First Series
(1871 Moxon) - Birket Foster
Poems : Second Series
(1872 Moxon) - Birket Foster
Humorous Poems
(1893 Macmillan, London & NY) - 250. Charles E Brock
Poetical Works
(1894 Warne)
The Haunted Jouse
(1896 Lawrence & Bullen) - H Railton

After 1901
The Serious Poems
(1901 Newnes) - 105 signed by Granville Fell
Hood's Poetical Works
(1906 Henry Frowde, OUP)
Hood and Charles Lamb : The story of a friendship, Being the Literary Reminiscences of Hood
(1930) - Edited by Walter Jerrold
Letters from the Dilke Papers in the British Museum
(1945) - edited by Leslie Marchand
The Song of the Shirt
(nd. Raphael Tuck) - J W Grey
The Bridge of Sighs
Illustrations to the Surprising Adventures of Three Men
(nd. No Publisher)

READING
Mrs F F Broderip : The Memorials of T Hood
(1869 Moxon) - 2 vols
A Elliot : Hood in Scotland
(1885 James Matthew)
Walter Jerrold : Thomas Hood - His Life & Times
(1907 Alston Rivers)
J M MacIlrath : Thomas Hood
(1935)
Laurence Brander : Thomas Hood
(1963)
John C Reid : Thomas Hood
(1963 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
John Clubbe : Victorian Forerunner - The Later Career of thomas Hood
(1968)

Related Writers

British Museum
George Cruikshank
Charles Lamb


See also

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