Author: Denovan, John C.
Biography:
DENOVAN, John C. (1795-1827: MSM)
MSM gives the year of his birth as 1798, but 1795 is more likely. He was born at South Leith to Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Alexander) Denovan. He sought a sea-faring life and entered a sloop of war as an honorary midshipman; his father’s death, however, required him to return home after just one voyage and he was apprenticed to a grocer. At about this time, he became friendly with William and Robert Chambers (q.v.) and his radical politics were expressed in a short-lived periodical, Patriot. Denovan became a coffee-roaster in Edinburgh. MSM states that he was encouraged to write by Walter Scott (q.v.). (MSM; ancestry.co.uk 13 May 2019) SR
Other Names:
- J. C. Denovan
- J. Denovan
Books written (2):
Edinburgh: printed for the author, 1819
Edinburgh: [printed by W. and R. Chambers according to a manuscript note on this copy], 1824