Fame and Fortune

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Biographer’s Tale: Second Thoughts About ‘Filter Hill’

Chapter 3 The Propagation of Lives: Sir John Who?

Chapter 4 Sir John Hill and Friendship

Chapter 5 John Hill and Mary Cooper: A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Publishing

Chapter 6 ‘The Ravished Organs of the Attentive Audience’: John Hill and Christopher Smart

Chapter 7 ‘Unassisted Hill’: Churchill’s Satire and the Fate of the Virtuoso

Chapter 8 John Hill and His Erotic Satires

Chapter 10 Coffeehouse Sociability, Science and Public Life in John Hill’s ‘The Inspector’

Chapter 11 The Inspector at Large: Investigating the Spaces of London

Chapter 12 A Dwarf on Giant’s Shoulders: Sir John Hill and Geology

Chapter 13 Sir John Hill as Botanist: The Vegetable System

Chapter 14 John Hill, Exotic Botany and the Competitive World of Eighteenth-Century Horticulture