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James Crossley (1800 – 1883) was an English author, bibliophile and literary scholar. By profession he was a lawyer. ==Life== He was born in Halifax, and moved to Manchester in 1816.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The city and parish of Manchester : Introduction )〕 Some of his early essays were published in the ''Retrospective Review''.〔Campbell, Jane (1972) ''The Retrospective Review 1820-1828 and the Revival of 17th Century Poetry''; p. 14.〕 He perpetrated a literary fraud, the forging of ''Fragment on Mummies'', supposedly by Sir Thomas Browne, that was a highly successful hoax.〔Kane, Robert J. (1933) ''James Crossley, Sir Thomas Browne, and the Fragment on Mummies'', in: "The Review of English Studies", Vol. 9, No. 35 (Jul., 1933), pp. 266-274.〕 The bogus nature of the ''Fragment'', given by Crossley to George Wilkin to publish, is now regarded as highly probable, but Crossley never precisely confessed to it.〔Schwyzer, Philip (2007) ''Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature''; p. 152.〕 He set up the Chetham Society in 1843, with Thomas Corser, Francis Robert Raines and others: it was named after Humphrey Chetham and its purpose was to edit and publish historical works relating to Lancashire and Cheshire. In the following years he personally edited many of its publications:〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''〕〔() 〕〔Levine, P. J. A. (2003) ''The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886''; p. 42.〕 including the ''Autobiographical tracts'' of John Dee (1851),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appendix II )〕 and the Diary of John Worthington. He served as President from 1847 until 1883. He is said to have collected 100,000 books at his residence in Chorlton on Medlock and later Stocks House, Cheetham.〔() 〕 He supplied the novelist William Ainsworth with historical material and ideas; he was in business with Ainsworth's father Thomas, and their friendship was lifelong.〔Mitchell, Rosemary (2000) ''Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870''; p. 104.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) — King of the Historical Potboiler: A Brief Biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Crossley (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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