Joshua Hatton (8 June 1850 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire – 1920)^[1] was an English writer, poet and editor, the brother of Joseph Hatton, Editor of The People).^[2] His exact date of death in late 1920 is uncertain, but it was reported at the beginning of 1921. He was aged 70.^[2]

Reputation

Hatton commonly used the pseudonym Guy Roslyn, although he is more often regarded by that name as a bogus biographer reduced to poverty and begging from the subjects of his biographies in his later life.^[3]

Works

Poetry and novels

• Daphnis the Unfaithful: a poetic romance, London: John Camden Hotten, 1870
• George Eliot in Derbyshire. Gossip on passages and characters in her novels, London, 1876^[4]
• Lyrics and Landscapes, etc., London/Perth, 1878
• Village Verses, etc., London/Plymouth, 1876

Editor

• The Biograph, and Review, London: E. W. Allen, 1879–1882^[5]
• The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, London: Henry Colburn and Co., to 1882