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Author: Carey, James

Biography:

CAREY, James (d 1801: Hollis)

pseudonym Geoffry TOUCHSTONE

A printer and publisher, one of six brothers--sons of the Dublin baker Christopher Carey and his wife Mary (Sherridan) Carey--of whom at least three (James, Mathew, and William) worked in Philadelphia in the 1790s. Like his brother Mathew (q.v.), he attacked William Cobbett, who was issuing pro-British pamphlets under the pseudonym "Peter Porcupine." In 1799-1800 he was the printer of and principal contributor to The Constitutional Diary and Philadelphia Evening Advertiser, which carried advertising for his and Mathew Carey's new publications. (George Spater, William Cobbett: The Poor Man's Friend [1982], 1:95)

 

Books written (3):

He Wou'd be a Poet; or, "Nature will be Nature still." An Heroic Poem: To Which is Annexed a Thanksgiving Epistle on Electioneering Success.

Philadelphia: printed for the author, 1796

The House of Wisdom in a Bustle. A Poem, Descriptive of the Noted Battle Lately Fought in C--ng---ss.

New York: for the purchasers, 1798

The House of Wisdom in a Bustle; a Poem, Descriptive of the Noted Battle, Lately Fought in C---ng---ss.

Philadelphia: for the author, 1798