Unfortunately they were not successful in achieving a published work. However, the compilation of documents was given to writer Frederick Hackworth by Hone's younger daughter Ellen Soul, who then created the book "William Hone. His life and times" in 1912. A short biography of Hone's life written by his friend and sometime neighbour, Frances Rolleston, was published five years after his death, a revised edition six years later, under the title "Some Account of the Conversion from Atheism to Christianity of the Late William Hone". A website to mark the 200th anniversary of the Guildhall trials, with information about William's descendants in the UK, Australia, Estonia, France, Canada, Germany and South Africa can be viewed here. The Australian Sir Brian Hone is a descendant of William's via his son Alfred Hone (a sculptor). The Hone's youngest daughter Alice was married to the French furniture designer   The 2018 play "Trial by Laughter" by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman covers the three trials of Hone in 1817.