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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Kati Eliisabet Peterson 2015  Background  Hazlitt's father attended the University of Glasgow  His fathers name was also William Hazlitt  In 1766 Hazlitt's parents married  Three children survived infancy  John 1767  Margaret (or Peggy) 1770  Childhood  William was born in Mitre Lane, Maidstone, in 1778  In 1780 his family began a migratory existence  They moved from Maidstone to Ireland to the Unated States  In 1786–87 the family returned to England and lived at Wem, in Shropshire  Education  Hazlitt was educated at home and at a local school  At age 13 one of his letters was first published  In 1793 his father sent him to a Unitarian seminary at Hackney College  He suffered a loss of faith and left Hackney  At puberty he became unapproachable and introverted  He read a lot, laying the foundation of his education  He turned to p...