{{Short description|English merchant}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{use British English|date=March 2023}} '''Joseph Hardman'''{{NoteTag|''The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals'' (1966) listed his name as John Hardman, following Margaret Oliphant's ''William Blackwood and His Sons'' (1897),<ref name="Wellesley 1">{{cite book | editor-first=Walter E. | editor-last=Houghton | editor-link=Walter Houghton | title=The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824–1900 | volume=1 | year=1966 | publisher=University of Toronto Press | url=https://archive.org/details/wellesleyindexto0001unse/page/28 | page=28 }}</ref><ref name="Oliphant 1897">{{cite book | first=Margaret | last=Oliphant | author-link=Margaret Oliphant | title=William Blackwood and His Sons | volume=2 | year=1897 | publisher=William Blackwood and Sons | url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofpublishi02olipuoft/page/502 | page=502 }}</ref> but this was corrected in ''The Curran Index to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals'', as all primary sources give his name as Joseph.<ref name="Curran">{{cite web | editor1-first=Lara | editor1-last=Atkin | editor2-first=Emily | editor2-last=Bell | title=Hardman, Joseph | website=The Curran Index | url=https://www.curranindex.org | access-date=2023-03-14 }}</ref>}} ({{circa|1783}} – 3 March 1870) was an English merchant and contributor to ''Blackwood's Magazine''.<ref name="Bandy 1948">{{cite journal | last=Bandy | first=W. T. | title=Coleridge's Friend Joseph Hardman: A Bibliographical Note | journal=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology | publisher=University of Illinois Press | volume=47 | issue=4 | year=1948 | issn=0363-6941 | jstor=27713023 | pages=395–397 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/27713023 }}</ref>
== Life == Hardman was born in Manchester, and was baptised in St Ann's Church on 23 July 1783.<ref>{{cite web | title=Joseph Hardman in the Manchester, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1541–1812 | url=https://ancestryinstitution.com/discoveryui-content/view/4024753:2959 | access-date=2023-03-15 }}</ref> He became a merchant based in London, married Frances Anna Rougemont, and together they had a son Frederick Hardman (1814–1874).<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB | first1=J. G. | last1=Alger | first2=G. Martin | last2=Murphy | title=Hardman, Frederick | date=23 September 2004 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12274 }}</ref>
While living in Highgate, Hardman became the neighbour and friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.<ref name="Nye 1989">{{cite journal | last=Nye | first=Eric W. | title=Coleridge and the Publishers: Twelve New Manuscripts | journal=Modern Philology | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=87 | issue=1 | year=1989 | issn=0026-8232 | jstor=438528 | pages=68–69 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/438528 }}</ref> In March 1828, Coleridge wrote to him about a new magazine that they had been planning, which eventually became the short-lived ''London Review'' (1829) under editor Joseph Blanco White.<ref name="Erdman 1975">{{cite journal | last=Erdman | first=David V. | author-link=David V. Erdman | title=Coleridge and the 'Review Business': An Account of His Adventures with the Edinburgh, the Quarterly, and Maga | journal=The Wordsworth Circle | publisher=Marilyn Gaull | volume=6 | issue=1 | year=1975 | issn=0043-8006 | jstor=24039314 | page=47 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24039314 }}</ref>
He completed a number of translations for ''Blackwood's Magazine''; they were, in his own words, "drawn chiefly from German and Danish sources and consisted of romantic and piquant tales, freely altered from the originals and adapted to British taste and feeling."<ref name="Friesen 1995">{{cite book | first=G. K. | last=Friesen | year=1995 | chapter=Sealsfield's British Pirates and Promoters | editor-first=F.B. | editor-last=Schüppen | title=Neue Sealsfield-Studien | publisher=J.B. Metzler | publication-place=Stuttgart | doi=10.1007/978-3-476-04219-4_21 | isbn=978-3-476-04219-4 | pages=393–440 }}</ref> These included "The Robber's Tower", based on Heinrich Clauren's "{{lang|de|Das Raubschloß|italics=no}}", which may have been a source of inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1840),<ref name="Burton & Pollin 1995"/> and "The Headsman", based on Lauritz Kruse's "{{lang|de|Das Verhängnis|italics=no}}", which might have been read by James Fenimore Cooper before writing his novel ''The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons'' (1833).<ref name="Franklin 2017"/> Hardman wrote to the editor to submit his work under the pseudonym "Amicus of Paris", though his works were generally published in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' without attribution. He also used this name in correspondence with other magazines, such as in letters written to ''The New Sporting Magazine'' in 1833.<ref>{{cite magazine | title=To Readers and Correspondents | magazine=The New Sporting Magazine | date=July 1833 | volume=5 | issue=27 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1QCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228 | page=228 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | title=To Readers and Correspondents | magazine=The New Sporting Magazine | date=September 1833 | volume=5 | issue=29 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1QCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA364 | page=364 }}</ref>
Hardman died on 3 March 1870 while living at Tudor Place, Richmond Green, and was buried at St Mary's Church, Twickenham.<ref>{{cite web | title=Joseph Hardman in the London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813–2003 | url=https://ancestryinstitution.com/discoveryui-content/view/13602122:1559 | access-date=2023-03-15 }}</ref>
== Works == {{wikisource|works=or}}
=== As translator === * "The Sphinx; An Extravaganza, Etched in the Manner of Callot" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (October 1828)<ref name="Bandy 1948"/> * "The Duellists; A Tale of the Thirty Years War" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (November 1828)<ref name="Bandy 1948"/> * "The Robber’s Tower; A True Adventure" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (December 1828) based on a story by Heinrich Clauren<ref name="Burton & Pollin 1995">{{cite book | first1=Thomas S. | last1=Hansen | first2=Burton R. | last2=Pollin | title=The German Face of Edgar Allan Poe | publisher=Camden House | year=1995 | isbn=9781571130693 | page=69 }}</ref><ref name="Pitcher 1978">{{cite journal | first=Edward W. | last=Pitcher | title=From Hoffmann's "Das Majorat" To Poe's "Usher" Via "The Robber's Tower": Poe's Borrowings Reconsidered | journal=The American Transcendental Quarterly | volume=39 | date=Summer 1978 | url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/68853807a18cf478369a7bdce43d735a }}</ref> * "Sketches of Italy and the Italians, with Remarks on Antiquities and Fine Art" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (January–August 1829)<ref name="Wellesley 5">{{cite book | editor-first=Jean Harris | editor-last=Slingerland | title=The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900 | publisher=University of Toronto Press | year=1989 | isbn=0802026885 | volume=5 | url=https://archive.org/details/wellesleyindexto0005unse/page/337 | pages=337–338 }}</ref> * "The Modern Gyges; A Tale of Trials" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (February 1829)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/> * "Poetical and Devotional Superstitions of Italy" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (July 1829)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/> * "Colonna the Painter; A Tale of Italy and the Arts" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (September 1829)<ref name="Bandy 1948"/> * "Phenomena of the Great Earthquake in 1783 in Calabria and Sicily" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (December 1829)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/> * "The Headsman; A Tale of Doom" in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (February 1830) based on a story by Lauritz Kruse<ref name="Bandy 1948"/><ref name="Franklin 2017">{{cite book | first=Wayne | last=Franklin | chapter=Republican Principles | title=James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years | publication-place=New Haven | publisher=Yale University Press | year=2017 | isbn=9780300229103 | doi=10.12987/9780300229103-007 | page=140 | s2cid=246099219 }}</ref> * "The Pirates of Segna; A Tale of Venice and the Adriatic" translated with Frederick Hardman in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (March–April 1844)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/>
=== As editor === * "The Venta of Armentia; A Sketch of the Late Carlist War in Spain" translated by Frederick Hardman in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (January 1841)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/> * "A Convent of Franciscans" translated by Frederick Hardman in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (September 1841)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/> * "A Passage in the Life of a Maître-d'Armes" translated by Frederick Hardman in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' (November 1842 – June 1843)<ref name="Wellesley 5"/>
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