Dr Matthew Symonds
Research Officer
Research Officer, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
email: m.symonds@qmul.ac.uk
Matt Symonds is studied history at University College London and Cambridge and has taught at UCL and Brunel University. His PhD, 'Grub street culture: the newspapers of Nathaniel Mist c.1715 – c. 1745', is about a Jacobite, his newspaper, and the repeated scandalous and seditious libels that it published.
Interested in the histories of sedition and national identity, he is starting work on a new project on Peter Anthony Motteux, the Huguenot translator and merchant who translated Don Quixote and Rabelais, sold exotic goods, and came to a disreputable end in a brothel.
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