Literature & Literary Studies
March 2026
The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer
1. Introducing the Career of Henry Hills, Printer
- What is a printer?
- Print output
- Insignia
- Roles
- Partnerships
- Cultural configurations of the early modern printer
2. 'Once upon a time': Biographical Encounters with Henry Hills
- Henry Hills' Lives: From DNB to ODNB
- Cultural biographies of printers
- Hugh Dalton's Cave: Reading Henry Hills
Part 2: Transformations
3. '[N]othing but the plain truth': The Prodigal Repackaged (1650-51, 1688, 1825)
- Henry Hills: Particular Baptist printer / author
- The Prodigal as shame management
- Henry Hills and the tailor's wife: 'Pressing' at a biographical anecdote
- The Prodigal Returned to his Father's House, by Henry Hills (1825): Reprinting a reprint
4. 'Licking himself whole again': Writing and Rewriting Henry Hills' Catholic Conversion (1685, 1686, 1733, 1826)
- Henry Hills: Catholic Printer
- A View (1685): From runaway apprentice to anti-Catholic book burner
- Entering Book (1686): Roger Morrice and the Hills household
- Revolution Politicks (1733): Print mediation and and public talk
- Hills, last seen at Watten, near Sainte-Omer, 13 February 1689
Part 3: Afterlives
5. Henry Hills, Eikon Basilike, and his Posthumous Role in the Pamela Prayer Conspiracy
- Taking the Pamela Prayer interpolation seriously: Eikon Basilike, authorship, and the work
of conspiracy
- '[T]he Roundhead printer!': Almack, Madan, and Hills' role in the publication of the Eikon
- The 'leading witness': Writing and rewriting Hills in Milton scholarship
- Finding Henry Hills in Dr Bernard's library
6. Pirates, Parents, and Print: Rewriting Henry Hills' Last Will and Testament
- 'Suite Trouble': Contesting Hills' legacy
- '[A]n expedient lineage': Henry Hills junior goes to Bombay
- Working with what remains
