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Mathew Carey
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Mathew Carey Autobiography
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Mathew Carey
Semi-crippled and with a poor school record, Mathew Carey should never have succeeded in anything, especially as he was also a Catholic in the intolerant Ireland of 1775. But by the age of 15 he’d gotten himself apprenticed to a Dublin printer and bookseller. At 17, he had anonymously penned an incendiary pamphlet entitled The Urgent Necessity of the Repeal of the Penal Code against Roman Catholics, and had to escape to France. There, meeting Benjamin Franklin, he gained a friend and ally. In 1784, fleeing Ireland a second time, he landed in Franklin’s hometown of Philadelphia—the perfect place, at the perfect moment. With the Constitutional issue being debated daily in the State House...
Mathew Carey
Excerpt from Mathew Carey: Editor, Author and Publisher; A Study in American Literary Development Mathew Carey, the subject of this study, after a lapse of three quarters of a century, has survived in chronological outlines and literary histories as the author of a History of the Yellow Fever, The Olive Branch, and of numerous works on political economy and a bewildering variety of subjects that defy classification. As such he is not unworthy of study by the close student of American literature and history; but were he noteworthy as an author alone, an essay, rather than a monograph, would probably be his due. Carey's real claim to consideration is as a publisher, and, to a lesser extent, ed...
