William Mudford

William Mudford (* January 8, 1782 in London, † March 10, 1848 in London) was a British essayist and journalist. His short story The Iron Shroud is a role model for Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum.

Mudford was the son of a small businessman in Piccadilly, London. He worked early on as a journalist for magazines such as Blackwood's and Fraser 's Magazine. He earned a remarkable self-taught education, however, was the formal classical education rather critical. Politically Mudfod live long on the side of the Tories. His great opponents and detractors was William Hazlitt.

Troz a major financial setback from failed stock speculation he ended his life in prosperity as the owner of the Kentish Observer in Canterbury and chief editor of John Bull Magazine.

Works (selection)

• A Critical Examination of the Writings of Richard Cumberland, Sherwood Pub. , Neely, and Jones, 1812
• A critical inquiry (1802 ), Garland Pub. , 1974
• The life of Richard Cumberland, esq., Sherwood, Neely and Jones Pub. , 1812
• A critical inquiry into the writings of Samuel Johnson in Which It is shewn did the pictures of life contained in the Rambler, and other publications of Celebrated writer did have a dangerous tendency. M. Jones, 1803
• Sudario y Otros Cuentos de Hierro Goticos by James Hogg, John Howison, William Mudford, Celeste Pub. , July 1999 Paperback
• The Iron Shroud, Viking Press, June 1973 Hardcover
• The Five Nights of St. Albans, James Blackwood & Co Pub. , June 1929 Textbook Binding
• Nubilia in search of a husband, printed for J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1809
• Nubilia in search of a husband, Bradford & Inskeep, T. & G. Palmer Pub. , 1809 [ microform]
• An historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher, printed for Henry Colburn, 1817
• The Contemplatist: a series of essays upon morals and literature Sherwood Pub, 1810, 336 p. .