| LC control no. | n 50058642 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ6574.W5 |
| Personal name heading | White, Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841 |
| Variant(s) | Blanco White, Joseph, 1775-1841 Blanco y Crespo, José María, 1775-1841 White, José Blanco, 1775-1841 Blanco, Josef María, 1775-1841 White, J. Blanco (Joseph Blanco), 1775-1841 Crespo, José María Blanco y, 1775-1841 Blanco White, José María, 1775-1841 White, Blanco, 1775-1841 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Doblado, Leucadio, 1775-1841 |
| Birth date | 1775-07-11 |
| Death date | 1841-05-20 |
| Place of birth | Seville (Spain) |
| Place of death | Liverpool (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Editors Novelists |
| Found in | His Practical and internal evidence ... 1826. His Vargas, 1822 (name not given) NUC pre-1956 (hdg.: White, Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841; usages: Joseph Blanco White; Leucadio Doblado; José Blanco White; J. Blanco White; Josef María Blanco) His España, 1982?: t.p. (José María Blanco White) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 21 December 2017 (Joseph Blanco White, formerly José María Blanco y Crespo; author; born 11 July 1775 in the calle Jamerdana, Seville; his paternal grandfather, William White, emigrated from Waterford to Andalusia at the beginning of the eighteenth century and established an import-export business in Seville; his father, also William White, adopted the Spanish form of his name, Guillermo Blanco; Joseph Blanco White lived in England from 1810-1832; while there he set up and edited a Spanish-language political journal, El Español; he worked for the Foreign Office, giving reports on South American affairs; he studied to become Anglican clergy; he wrote a series for the New monthly magazine titled "Letters from Spain," using the pseudonym Don Leucadio Doblado; he wrote the novel Vargas: a tale of Spain; he became editor of Variedades, a London magazine; he wrote Practical and internal evidence against Catholicism, and The poor man's preservative against popery; he briefly lived in Ireland; he died in Liverpool on 20 May 1841) Bentley's miscellany, 1845: volume 17, number 97, page 83-88 (Literary retrospect of the departed great, by a middle-aged man; discusses author "Blanco White," that is, Joseph Blanco White) |
| Associated language | spa eng |
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