ABSTRACT
First published in The True Sun, 14 September 1833, p. 3. The True Sun was a radical evening paper published from 5 March 1832 to 23 December 1837 (see Waterloo Directory, vol. vi, p. 4719). Its editors were William Johnson Fox and Hunt’s close friend Samuel Laman Blanchard. Contributors included Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, and John Forster, who served as the drama critic, a position he probably secured through Hunt’s influence. In a March 1833 letter to Thomas Carlyle, Hunt described The True Sun as ‘the most radical of radicals’ (Gates, Letters, p. 230; see also Charles H. Vivian, ‘Dickens, The True Sun, and Samuel Laman Blanchard’ in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 4 (1950), pp. 328–30).
