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and appears to have stayed on after Rintoul's death in April 1858. A short period under ownership by another person preceded the American purchase around December 1858. The nationality of those behind the purchase was disguised by dint of the co-financiers using Hunt as an intermediary, and he was
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installed as editor. The American owners dramatically altered the tone of the magazine, its circulation declined substantially and there were several occasions when Moran had to pump additional funds into the venture. Having paid £4200 for it, they sold for £2000 in January 1861; soon afterward,
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was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador
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with two other married couples. One couple was Kate's brother and Hunt's sister. The other couple was Kate's cousin (or adopted sister, Anastasia Gliddon), and
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Hunt married Katherine Gliddon in 1834 and they remained together until his death. They lived a communal, apparently free love, lifestyle in
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Lacking the ability to become an artist, Hunt instead took up a career in journalism. He was employed as a sub-editor for the
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during much of the 1860s. The two men corresponded on a variety of political issues, and were in close contact during the
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Throughout his life Hunt was often associated with liberal political movements. He was a charter member of the
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until the age of twelve, when his father moved the family to Italy for three years in order to edit
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and the People's International League. Hunt also engaged in unorthodox social arrangements such as
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Hunt became the lover of Agnes Jervis Lewes, the wife of his collaborator
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Association for the Promotion of the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge
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Fulton, Richard (Winter 1991). "The "Spectator" in Alien Hands".
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Mr and Mrs George Henry Lewes with Thornton Leigh Hunt
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The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain
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Hampstead
London
Kilburn, London
Kensal Green Cemetery
The Daily Telegraph
The Spectator
Liberal
Leigh Hunt
broadsheet newspaper
The Daily Telegraph
Leigh Hunt
Hampstead
The Liberal
Radical
William Makepeace Thackeray
Douglas Jerrold
Glasgow Argus
The Leader
George Henry Lewes
Joseph Moses Levy
The Daily Telegraph
Edward Levy-Lawson
Liberal
Lord Palmerston
William Ewart Gladstone
amanuensis
Reform Bill crisis
The Spectator
James Buchanan
George M. Dallas

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