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William Hazlitt

 Divorce  Was divorced in 1822.  He fell in love with the daughter of his London landlord, but the affair ended disastrously  Hazlitt described his suffering in the strange Liber Amoris; or, The New Pygmalion (1823).  Many of his best essays were written during this difficult period  They were collected in his two most famous books: Table Talk (1821) and The Plain Speaker (1826)  Second marriage  In April 1824 Hazlitt married Bridgwater.  The couple separated after three years  Part of this second marriage was spent abroad, an experience recorded in Notes of a Journey in France and Italy (1826)  In 1825 some of his most effective writing The Spirit of the Age was published  Conversations of James Northcote (1830) recorded his long friendship with that eccentric painter  Hazlitt’s Complete Works, in 13 volumes, appeared in 1902–06, to be reissued, edited by P.P