Talk:Frederick Hardman

Joseph or John Harding

His father's name may have been John, not Joseph Harding per Hasen and Pollin:

• Hansen, Thomas S.; Pollin, Burton R. (1995). The German Face of Edgar Allen Poe. Camden House. p. 69. ISBN 9781571130693.

Hardman, whose dates cannot be accurately established, was a friend of Coleridge and an accomplished literary privateer who seems to have made a living smuggling facsimilies of European originals into British journals. The Dictionary of National Biography entry for his son erroneously identifies him as “Joseph” (8:1231). His son Frederick Hardman (1814–1874) apparently followed in his father’s footsteps, contributing similar pieces and reworking Charles Sealsfield for Blackwood’s.

This cites Pitcher, who also gives the name as John Hardman:

• Pitcher, Edward W. (Summer 1978). "From Hoffmann's "Das Majorat" To Poe's "Usher" Via "The Robber's Tower": Poe's Borrowings Reconsidered". The American Transcendental Quarterly. 39.

However, one article says: "Some indexes list him as John Hardman, though the DNB cites family sources for the name Joseph":

• Nye, Eric W. (August 1989). "Coleridge and the Publishers: Twelve New Manuscripts". Modern Philology. 87 (1). University of Chicago Press: 68–69. JSTOR 438528.

The ODNB article on Frederick still names him as Joseph, probably just taking this from the original DNB. ‑‑Yodin^T 12:23, 12 March 2023 (UTC)