1. For a detailed account of Johns’s friendship with the Hazlitts, see Ernest J. Moyne, ed., The Journal of Margaret Hazlitt: Recollections of England, Ireland, and America (Lawrence, KS, 1967), 23–6 (hereafter JMH).
2. John Seed, Dissenting Histories. Religious Division and the Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England (Edinburgh, 2008), 8.
3. John Johns, The Season of Autumn, as Connected with Human Feelings and Changes, A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of William Hazlitt (London and Exeter, 1830), 14–17.
4. John Kinnaird, William Hazlitt: Critic ofPower (New York, 1978), viii–ix.
5. David Bromwich, Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic (Oxford and New York, 1983), viii.