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Blake's Hayley: the life, works and friendships of William Hayley, by Morchard Bishop, published 1951 (372 pp., London: Gollancz) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A biography of Willam Hayley and his friendships with William Blake, Cowper, Romney, Gibbon, Anna Seward, Wright of Derby, Lady Hamilton, Mrs Opie - almost every interesting figure who flourished during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first two of the ninteenth. "This book will attract anyone interested in Blake and the period which, retrospectively, he dominates: in the by-ways of literature: and, more generally, in the whole pageant of English life".