The Case Stated

by John Hampson

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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John Rylands University Library of Manchester

T197996

Dedication 'To the Methodist Society at White-Friar-Street, Dublin' J. Hampson. Relating to a charge of false doctrine levelled against Samuel Bradburn.

Dublin : printed in the year, 1777. 21,[1]p. ; 12°

24 pages, Hardcover

Published April 23, 2018

About the author

John Hampson Simpson was born in Birmingham in 1901, the fifth of eight children. Hampson’s childhood was a difficult one: the collapse of his father’s business reduced the family to near poverty, and his own weak health prevented him from attending school and receiving a formal education. After the First World War, young Hampson worked at a variety of jobs, including as a waiter at a London hotel and assisting at his sister’s pub, both of which experiences he draws on in Saturday Night at the Greyhound.

In 1925, Hampson obtained a post as tutor to a mentally disabled boy, and the relative stability of the job allowed him to take up writing in his free time. Virginia Woolf believed Hampson’s first novel, Go Seek a Stranger, to be his best, but it was rejected for publication because of its frank homosexual content and remains unpublished. Instead, in February 1931, Woolf and her husband Leonard’s Hogarth Press issued Saturday Night at the Greyhound, which was a surprise hit, being declared a bestseller by The Observer two days after publication and running into three printings in eight days. It was quickly translated into French and in 1937 became one of the first successful Penguin paperbacks.

Hampson’s later novels, though respectfully reviewed, were less successful commercially. These included O Providence (1932), another Hogarth release, and a trio of novels published by Heinemann, of which Strip Jack Naked (1934) is perhaps the best known. In the 1930s, Hampson was a leading figure in the “Birmingham Group”, which also included Walter Allen and Leslie Halward, and he counted Forrest Reid, Graham Greene, and W. H. Auden among his literary friends. Hampson’s final novel A Bag of Stones (1952), a psychological study of how a boy’s horrific childhood leads to the murder of his father, was well reviewed and was championed by the influential publisher John Lehmann. Hampson died in 1955.