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HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH AUTHORS.
Abbott, Edwin A. 1838
Shakespearean
scholar. Author of a Shakespearean Grammar a
Handbook of Elizabethan English, etc. Pub. Mac.
Rob.
A'Becket, Gilbert Abbot. 1811-1856. Humorist.
Author Comic Hist. of England, Comic Hist. of
Rome, Comic Blackstone, etc. Pub. Apl. Lip.
Adams, Mrs. Sarah [Flower]. 1805-1848. Known
chiefly by her hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee."
Adams, Wm. 1814-1848. Religious writer. Au-
thor of Sacred Allegories, etc. See Edition of
1869, with Life. Pub. Lip.
Addison, Joseph. 1672-1719. Essayist and poet.
His tragedy of Cato is now little read, but his
Hymns still continue deservedly popular. As a
prose writer A. has exercised an influence upon
the manners, morals, and general culture of his
time not easily overestimated. His style is grace-
ful, gentle, and persuasive. With Steele he created
the Periodical Essay, and was the chief contrib-
utor to the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. See
Thackeray's Eng. Humorists, Aikin's Memorials
of Addison. Pub. Har. Lip.
Aguilar [ä-ge-lar'], Grace.
1816-1847.
Novelist.
Home Influence, Woman's Friendship, and Days
of Bruce are her chief works.
Aikin [a'kin], John. 1747-1822.
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Biographer and
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miscellaneous writer. One of the authors of
Evenings at Home. Pub. Har.
Aikin, Lucy. 1781-1864. Dau. to J. A. Histo-
rian and poet. Author Memoirs of the Courts of
Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Memorials of Ad-
dison, etc.
Ainsworth, Robert. 1660-1743. Classical lexicog-
rapher.
Ainsworth, Wm. Francis. 1807
Geologist
and traveller. Author Travels in Asia Minor, Re-
searches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea, etc.
Ainsworth, Wm. Harrison. 1805-1882. Cousin to
W. F. A. Novelist. His historical novels are nu-
merous, but Jack Sheppard is his most famous
work, and has been 8 times dramatized. His popu-
larity has been very great, many of his works hav-
ing been translated into most European languages,
yet their literary merit is not high, and the influence
of Jack Sheppard, in particular, is pernicious. Pub.
Har. Rou. Pet.
Airy, George Biddell. 1801
Astronomer. Au-
thor Essays on the Invasion of Britain by Julius
Cæsar, and numerous scientific papers of value.
Akenside, Mark. 1721-1770. Poet and physician.
Author of a philosophical poem in blank verse on
The Pleasures of the Imagination. Pub. Hou.
Alcuin [ǎl'-kwin]. c. 735-804. Abp. York. Writer
of Latin commentaries, dogmatic treatises, and nu-
merous Latin poems.
Aldhelm. 656-709. Anglo-Latin poet.
His prin-
cipal theme is the praise of virginity, on which he
has written in both prose and verse.
Alexander, Adam. 1741-1809.
Scotch gramma-
rian. Author of Classical Biog. etc.
Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances. c. 1830 –
Poet.
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Best known by her famous poem, The Burial of
Moses. Pub. Dut. Mac.
Alexander, Mrs. Novelist. See Hector, Mrs. An-
nie Alexander.
Alexander, Wm. c. 1580-1640. Scotch poet.
Author Recreations with the Muses, Doomsday,
etc. Style didactic and heavy. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 2.
Alford [awl'ford], Henry. 1810-1871. Dean of
Canterbury. Author of Poems, a valuable edition
of the Greek Testament, a much criticised Plea
for the Queen's English, etc. See Life, Journals,
and Letters. See Moon's The Dean's English.
Pub. Har. Ran. Rou.
Alfred the Great. 848-901. The Father of Eng-
lish Prose. An untiring scholar whose labors gave
form and dignity to the English tongue. His trans-
lations from the Latin are numerous and valuable,
among them being Bæda's Ecclesiastical History
and Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy. See
Green's Making of England.
Alfric.
1006. Abp. Canterbury. A noted
theologian and grammarian. His 80 Homilies his
chief work. He translated the books of Moses and
wrote many theological works.
Scotch theological
Pub. Har.
Alison, Archibald. 1757-1839.
writer. Essays on Taste, etc.
Alison, Sir Archibald. 1792-1867.
Son to preced-
ing. Historian. Author of a Hist. of Europe in
18 vols. and a Life of Marlborough. Pub. Har.
Allein [ǎl'len], Joseph. 1633-1668.
Author of Alarm to the Unconverted.
Theologian.
Allen, Chas. Grant. 1848. Author of Phys-
iological Esthetics, Color and Sense, Force and
Energy, etc. Pub. Apl.
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Allingham, Wm. 1828-
Irish poet. Author Day
and Night Songs, Songs, Ballads and Stories, etc.
Pub. Mac.
A. L. O. E. See Tucker, Charlotte.
Andrews, Lancelot. 1555-1626. Bp. Winchester.
The most eminent preacher of his time, and a High
Church theologian of great rigor and learning. He
was one of the translators of the Bible and author
of 4 vols. of Sermons and a Manual of Private
Devotions. Style involved and artificial. Pub.
Dut.
Anster, John. 1798-1867. Irish poet. Author of
a much admired translation of Faust.
Anstey, Christopher. 1724-1805. Poet. The New
Bath Guide (pub. 1766) is his chief work and was
the most popular book of its day. It is a lively,
versified description of life and manners of Bath.
See his Works, pub. 1808, with Life, by his son.
Arbuthnot [är'bŭth-not], John. 1675-1735 Hu-
morist. Author Hist. John Bull, Art of Political
Lying, Memoirs of P. P. Clark of this Parish, and
supposed author of the greater part of the famous
satire upon the abuses of learning, the Memoirs of
Martinus Scriblerus.
Armstrong, John. 1709-1779. Scotch poet and phy-
sician. Author of the Art of Preserving Health, a
poem of much originality of style.
Arnold, Edwin. 1832 Poet and journalist. His
chief work, The Light of Asia, gives him a high
rank among modern poets. The subject is the life
of Buddha. He has translated much from the
Sanskrit, and is the author of Griselda, Lyrical
and Dramatic Poems, The Indian Song of Songs,
Pearls of the Faith, etc. Style elevated and versi-
fication musical. Pub. Rob.
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Arnold, Matthew. 1822
Son to succeeding.
Poet and essayist. His poetry is pervaded by a
vein of doubt and mistrust, although elevated in char-
acter and of great merit. Tristram and Iseult, and
Thyrsis, an elegy on the poet Clough, are among
his best poems. His prose works are numerous
and important. Literature and Dogma, and Essays
in Criticism are among the best known. The
phrase "sweetness and light" was made familiar
by him. See Hutton's Essays, Swinburne's Essays
and Studies, Stedman's Victorian Poets, Edinburgh
Rev. April, 1869. Pub. Har. Mac. Ho. Ste.
Arnold, Thomas. 1795-1842. Head Master of Rug-
by. Author Hist. Rome and Lect. on Modern
Hist. He exercised a great and beneficial influence
upon the minds of the young Englishmen of his
time. See Life and Correspondence of Arnold, by
A. P. Stanley, and Hughes' School Days at Rugby.
Pub. Apl.
Arnold, Thos. Kerchever. 1800-1853. Author of
classical text-books. Pub. Apl.
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Arnold, Wm. Delafield. 1828-1859. Son to T. A.
Writer of historical sketches and lectures.
Arnott, Neil. 1788-1874. Scotch scientist. Au-
thor Elements of Physics, etc. Pub. Apl.
Ascham [ǎs'kam], Roger. 1515-1568. Tutor of
Lady Jane Grey and Q. Elizabeth. Author of
Toxophilus, a treatise on the bow, and The School-
master. A. possessed a clear, correct style.
Ashe, Thomas. 1836-
Sorrows of Hypsipyle, etc.
Poet. Author of The
Ashmole, Elias. 1617-1692. Antiquary. Author
of Laws of the Order of the Garter, etc.
Atterbury, Francis. 1662-1732. Bp. Rochester.
Theologian. Author Sermons and numerous con-
troversial writings.
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Aubrey, John. 1626-1697. Antiquary. A. pub-
lished a collection of popular superstitions.
Austen, Jane. 1775-1817. Novelist. Author of
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,
Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion,
Emma, The Watsons, and Lady Susan. These
novels are examples of the finest literary art, and
have delighted cultured minds for almost three
generations. Her character-drawing is strong and
realistic. See Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1863. See
Jane Austen and her Works by Sarah Tytler
(pub. 1881). Pub. Har. Por. Lit. Rou.
Austin, Alfred. 1835
Poet and novelist. Au-
thor of An Artist's Proof, Interludes, The Human
Tragedy, etc. Pub. Mac.
Austin, Mrs. Sarah. 1793-1867. Author Charac-
teristics of Goethe, and of numerous translations
from the German.
Ayton [a'tun], Sir Robert. 1570-1638. Scotch
poet. Remembered for his lyric, "I do confess
thou 'rt smooth and fair."
Aytoun [a'tun], Wm. Edmondstoune. 1813–1865.
Scotch poet. Author Lays of the Scottish Cav-
aliers, Bothwell, and with T. Martin, of the Bon
Gaultier Ballads. See Memoir by Theodore Mar-
tin. Pub. Arm. Hou.
Babbage, Chas. 1792-1871.
Mathematician and
philosopher. Author of The Economy of Manu-
factures and Machinery, A Ninth Bridgewater
Treatise, etc.
Bacon, Francis.
Viscount St. Albans and Baron
Verulam. 1561-1626. Philosopher. The Founder
of Inductive Philosophy. He wrote, in both Eng.
and Latin. The Advancement of Learning, Novum
Organum and Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis
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form the Instauratio Magna, which embodies his
system of philosophy. His Essays are his most im-
portant English work. A man of great genius and
wonderful intellectual activity whose writings cover
a wide range. He awakened the scientific spirit in
England and gave it form. The best edition of
B. is that by James Spedding. See Life and Let-
ters of Bacon, by James Spedding (1870), also W.
H. Dixon's Personal History of Lord Bacon.
Pub. Hou.
Bacon, Roger (Friar.) 1214-1292. Philosopher.
The great light of the thirteenth century. In his
Opus Major he anticipated many inventions of later
times, and displayed a familiarity with all branches
of study of his day.
Bage, Robert. 1728–1801. Novelist. Author of
Man as he Is, The Fair Syrian, etc. See Life, by
Walter Scott.
Bagehot [bāj'ut], Walter. 1826-1877. Essayist
and journalist. Author of Lombard Street, Phy-
sics and Politics, The Eng. Constitution, and Es-
says on Silver. See Living Age, April 19, 1879.
Pub. Apl. Lit. Scr.
Bailey, Philip James. 1816-
Poet. Author of
Festus, The Angel World, The Mystic, The Age,
etc. Festus, which had a brief popularity, is a work
of unequal merit, but contains a few brilliant pas-
sages.
Baillie, Joanna. 1762-1851. Scotch dramatist. Has
been called "the female Shakespeare." Author of
Plays on the Passions, etc. Her tragedy of De
Montfort is her finest effort. See complete Works
in one vol. with Life (1853). See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 4.
Baker, Sir Samuel White. 1821
Traveller.
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Author of the Albert Nyanza, The Nile Tributaries
of Abyssinia, Ismailia, etc. Pub. Har. Lip. Mac.
Balfour, Francis Maitland. 1851-1882. Biologist.
Author Elements of Comparative Embryology.
Development of the Elasmobranch Fishes, etc.
Style acute and original. See Fortnightly Rev.
Nov. 1882. Pub. Mac.
Banim [bā'nim], John. 1798–1842. Irish novelist.
His novels deal almost exclusively with the tragic
side of Irish peasant life. See Life, by P. 7.
Murray, 1857. Pub. Sad.
Banks, Sir Joseph. 1743-1820.
Naturalist. See
Cuvier, Elegy on Sir J. Banks, 1821.
Barbauld [bar'bawld or bar-bō'], Mrs. Anna Læti-
tia. 1743-1825. Miscellaneous writer. Author
of Hymns in Prose, Miscellaneous Poems, etc.
Among her best efforts is the exquisite little poem,
Life. Some of her religious poetry is deservedly
popular. Style easy and graceful. See edition with
Memoir, by L. Aikin, 1827.
Barbour, John. 1316-1396. Archdeacon of Aber-
deen. Scotch poet. His Bruce, a metrical hist. in
13,000 octosyllabic lines, is a chronicle of the life
of King Robert I., and has historical value as well
as literary merit. See Craik's Eng. Lit. vol. 1.
Barclay, Robert. 1648-1690. Scotch writer. His
Apology for the Quakers was first pub. in Latin.
Barham [băr'am], Richard Harris. 1788-1845. Hu-
morous poet. Author of the Ingoldsby Legends, a
witty volume of facile rhymes. Pub. Por. Wid.
Baring-Gould, Sabine. 1834 Author Curious
Myths of the Middle Ages, Lives of the Saints, etc.
See Lit. World, Fan. 13, 1883. Pub. Apl. Lip. Rob.
Barnard, Lady Anne. 1750-1825.
1750-1825. Scotch poet.
Author of Auld Robin Gray.
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Barnfield, Richard. 1574-c. 1605. Poet. His ode
"As it fell upon a day" was once ascribed to
Shakespeare. See Warton's Eng. Poetry.
Barrow, Isaac. 1630-1677. Theologian and math-
ematician. Author of Sermons and Mathemati-
cal works of almost equal renown. See Selections
from, pub. 1866. Pub. Mac.
Barton, Bernard. 1784-1849. A Friend of Lamb's.
"The Quaker Poet." Author of Poetic Vigils,
Devotional Verses, etc., the literary merit of which
is but slight.
Baxter, Richard. 1615-1691. Theologian. A vo-
luminous writer, but now best known by his Saints'
Rest, and Call to the Unconverted. See edition of
1850 in 23 vols. with Life. Pub. Clx.
Bayley, Thos. Haynes.
1797-1839. Song writer.
Author of I'd be a Butterfly, She wore a Wreath
of Roses, We met, 't was in a Crowd, etc.
Bayne, Peter. 1830. Essayist and biographer.
Author of Christian Life, Essays in Biographical
Criticism, Life of Hugh Miller, etc. Pub. Har. Rou.
Beale, Lionel Smith. 1828
Scientific writer
of note. Author of How to Work with the Micro-
scope, Protoplasm, The Mystery of Life, etc.
Beattie [bee'ti or ba'ti], James. 1735-1803. Scotch
poet. Author of The Minstrel, a long, prosy poem
in Spenserian stanza, and a prose Essay on Truth.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3. Pub. Hou.
Beaumont, Francis. 1586-1615. Dramatist. Col-
league of John Fletcher. Their collected plays
amount to 52, of which 14 were in part the work of
B., but his separate authorship is not easy to trace.
B. and F. in their day were more popular than
Shakespeare, but none of their plays now keep the
stage. Their blank verse is melodious and their
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wit and humor sparkling, but their plays reflect the
full coarseness of the time. Among plays written
by them jointly are Philaster, Thierry and Theo-
doret, A King and No King, and the comedy of
The Knight of the Burning Pestle. See Fletcher,
John. See Schlegel's Dramatic Lit., Hazlitt's
Dramatic Lit. and Hallam's Lit. of Europe. Pub.
Apl.
Beaumont, Sir John.
1582-1628. Bro. to F. B.
Author Bosworth Field, a poem in heroic verse.
Beckford, Wm. 1760-1844. Author of Vathek, an
Oriental romance. Style luxuriant. See Chambers'
Cyc. Eng. Lit.
See
Beddoes, Thos. Lovell. 1803-1849. Poet. Author
The Bride's Tragedy, Death's Jest-Book, etc.
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.
Bede, Cuthbert. See Bradley, Edward.
Bede, Beda, or Bæda, The Venerable. 673-735-
"First among Eng. scholars, first among Eng.
theologians, first among Eng. historians." His
whole life was passed in the monastery of Yarrow,
where he composed more than 40 Latin works, the
greatest of which is the Eccl. Hist. of the Eng.
Nation. On the day of his death was finished his
translation of St. John's Gospel into Eng., being
the earliest example of Eng. prose. See edition
of Bede by Dr. Giles, 6 vols. 1843-4. See Green's
Short Hist. of the Eng. People, also Green's Mak-
ing of England. Pub. Dut.
Behn [běn], Mrs. Aphra. 1642-1689. Novelist and
dramatist. Known in her day as Astræa. Author
of The Forced Marriage, Oronooko, etc. A lively,
immoral writer. See edition of 1871. See Miss
Kavanagh's Eng. Women of Letters, and Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. a.
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Bellenden, Wm. fl. c. 1615. Scotch classical writer.
Author De Statu.
Bentham, Jeremy. 1748-1832. Philosopher and
political economist. Founder of the Utilitarian
school of thought, and a valued authority upon ju-
risprudence. Many reforms in Eng. jurisprudence
are traceable to his influence. See edition of 1843
in II vols. See Edinburgh Rev. Oct. 1843.
Bentley, Richard. 1662-1742.
Classical writer.
Author Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris,
works provoked by his famous controversy with
Boyle, and which rank as masterpieces of argu-
ment. They display great learning, a rapid, con-
cise style, and a sarcastic wit. See Bentley, by R.
C. Febb, in Eng. Men of Letters.
Berkeley, George. 1684-1753. Bp. Cloyne. Irish
metaphysician. An eccentric but pure-minded
thinker, in whose Principles of Human Knowledge
is denied the existence of matter. Other works of
B. are Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher, The-
ory of Vision, Siris, etc. Also the poem in which
occurs the famous line, "Westward the course of
empire takes its way." See edition of Berkeley,
by Fraser, 4 vols. Oxford, 1871.
Berners, Lord. 1469-1532. Translator of Froissart's
Chronicle. The translation is faithful and is a
masterpiece of picturesque and spirited English.
Berners, Juliana. c. 1388-c. 1461.
Bokys of Hunting and Hawking.
Hist. Eng. Poetry.
Besant, Walter. 1838
Author of the
See Warton's
Novelist.
Colleague of
James Rice, and with him author of The Seamy Side,
Ready Money Mortiboy, the Chaplain of the Fleet,
Shepherds All and Maidens Fair, etc. Sole author
of The Revolt of Man, Life of E. H. Palmer, etc.
See Rice, James. Pub. Har. Rob. Dut.
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Beveridge, Wm. 1638-1708. Bp. St. Asaph.
Theologian. Thesaurus Theologicus, Expositions
of the Catechism and 39 Articles, and Private
Thoughts are some of his chief works.
Bickerstaff, Isaac. 1735-c. 1788. Dramatist.
thor of Maid of the Mill, Love in a Village, etc. See
Hazlitt's Essays on the Comic Writers.
Bickersteth, Edward. 1786-1850. Religious wri-
ter. Author of The Scripture Help, etc. See edi-
tion of his Works in 17 vols. 1853. See Memoir
of, by T. R. Birks, 1851.
Bickersteth, Edward Henry. 1825
Son to
E. B. Religious Poet. Author of Yesterday, To-
Day and Forever, The Two Brothers, etc. Pub.
Ca. Dut.
Bickersteth, Rob't. 1816-1884. Bp. Ripon. Relig-
ious writer. Author of Lent Lectures, Bible Land-
marks, etc.
Birch, Thomas. 1705-1766. Historian and biog-
rapher. Author of a General Dictionary, Historical
and Critical.
Black, Wm. 1841
Novelist. A prolific writer,
the best of whose works are A Daughter of Heth,
Princess of Thule, Strange Adventures of a Phae-
ton, and Macleod of Dare. They evince rare
powers of description and much constructive skill.
See Harper's Mag. Dec. 1882. Pub. Har. Mac.
Blackie, John Stuart. 1809 Scotch poet and
scholar. For 30 years Greek Professor at Edin-
burgh Univ. His numerous works include Greek,
Latin, and German translations, several vols. of
poems, and a famous work on Self-Culture which
has been translated into every European language.
Pub. Scr.
Blackmore, Sir Richard. 1650-1729. Poet. Au-
thor of the epics The Creation, and Prince Arthur.
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Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. 1825
Nov-
elist. Author Lorna Doone, Maid of Sker, Alice
Lorraine, Erema, Mary Anerley, Christowell, etc.
A vigorous and original writer. Lorna Doone is
his finest work. Pub. Har. Lip.
Blackstone, Sir Wm. 1723–1780. Jurist. Author
of Commentaries on the Laws of England, an
authoritative work. See Campbell's Lives of the
Chief Justices. Pub. Har. Lip.
Blair, Hugh. 1718-1800. Author of the once famous
Lectures on Rhetoric. Pub. Por.
Blair, Robert. 1699-1747. Poet.
1699-1747. Poet. Author of The
Grave, a dull, didactic, but once popular poem. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
Blake, Wm. 1757-1827. Artist and poet. Author
of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and Ex-
perience, etc. A writer of rare simplicity and
beauty. An Elizabethan poet of the 19th cent.
See editions of his poems by Shepherd and Rossetti,
and Life by Gilchrist, 1863 and 1881, also Swin-
burne's Study of Blake, 1863. Pub. Rob.
Blamire, Susanna. 1747-1794. Poet. Author of
the fine lyrics, The Siller Crown, What Ails this
Heart o' Mine, etc.
Blanchard, Edward Laman. 1820
tist and novelist.
Blanchard, Laman.
Drama-
1803-1845. Littérateur. See
Bulwer's Memoir of, with Blanchard's Essays and
Sketches, 1849.
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of. 1789–1849.
Society novelist. See Life and Correspondence
edited by D. R. Madden.
Bloomfield, Robert. 1766-1823. Pastoral poet.
Author of The Farmer's Boy, Rural Tales, The
Horkey, etc. Pub Por. Rou.
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Blunt, John Henry.
1823-1884. Theologian. Au-
thor Hist. Reformation in Ch. of England and
editor Dict. Sects and Heresies, etc. Pub. Dut.
Blunt, John James. 1794-1855. Ecclesiologist.
Author Hist. Christian Ch. in the first three cen-
turies, etc. Pub. Ca.
Bolingbroke, Lord. See St. John, Henry.
Bonar, Horatius. 1808
Scotch poet. Author
Hymns of Faith and Hope, etc. Pub. Ca.
Borrow, George. 1803-1881. Author of Gipsies of
Spain, Bible in Spain, Lavengro, The Romany Rye,
Romany Word Book, etc. See Autobiography,
1851. Pub. Ca. Har.
Boswell [boz'well], Alexander.
1775-1822. Poet.
Son to J. B. His song, Jenny Dang the Weaver,
is his best known production.
Boswell, James. 1740-1795. Biographer. His
Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson is an incomparable
work. Pub. Ho. Lit. Rou.
Boswell, James. 1779-1822.
Shakespearean scholar.
Boucicault [boo-se-ko'], Dion.
Son to preceding.
1822
Dram-
atist. Among his very numerous popular plays,
London Assurance, Rip Van Winkle, The Corsican
Brothers, Led Astray, and the Shaughraun are
perhaps the best. See Johnson's Cyc.
Bowles, Wm. Lisle. 1762-1850. Poet. Author
Fourteen Sonnets, Village Verse Book, etc. A
graceful writer, to whom Wordsworth and Cole-
ridge attributed their own poetic inspiration.
Bowring [bour'ing], Sir John. 1792-1872. Philol-
ogist and poet. Best known as a writer of hymns
of great beauty, among others, the familiar Watch-
man, Tell us of the Night. See Autobiographical
Recollections, 1877. Pub. Dut.
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Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson. 1825
Scotch essayist. Author of Essays by a Country
Parson, Graver Thoughts, Autumn Holidays, etc.
He signed his essays with his initials A. K. H. B.
Boyle, Chas. 1676-1731. Famous for his contro-
versy with Bentley concerning the Epistles of Pha-
laris. See Bentley, Richard.
Boyle, Robert. 1626-1691. Philosopher. A volu-
minous writer upon metaphysics and natural sci-
ences.
Braddon, Miss. See Maxwell, Mrs. Mary E.
Bradley, Edward. "Cuthbert Bede." 1827
Humorist. Author Adventures of Verdant Green,
etc.
Bradley, James. 1692-1762. Astronomical writer.
Brady, Nicholas. 1659-1726. Chiefly known for his
share in the version of the Psalms prepared by
him with Nahum Tate.
Bray, Mrs. Anna Eliza. 1790-1883. Miscellaneous
writer of note. See Lit. World, Feb. 24, 1883.
Brewer, E. Cobham. 1810
Author Reader's
Handbook, Dict. Phrase and Fable, Guide to Sci-
ence, etc.
Well edited and valuable books of ref-
erence. Pub. Clx. Lip.
Brewster, Sir David. 1781-1868. Scientist. Au-
thor Natural Magic, More Worlds than One, Lives
of Newton, Kepler, etc. See Life, by his daugh-
ter, 1869. Pub. Har.
Brontë [bron´te], Anne. 1820-1849. Novelist. Sis-
ter to C. B. Author of Tenant of Wildfell Hall
and Agnes Grey. Pub. Har.
Brontë, Charlotte.
E. B. Novelist.
1816-1855. Sister to A. B. and
Author of The Professor, Jane
Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. A writer of great
power and originality, whose Jane Eyre marks an
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era in the history of fiction. See Charlotte Brontë
by T. W. Reid, 1877; Life of, by Mrs. Gaskell, and
H.Martineau's Biographical Sketches. Pub. Har.
Brontë, Emily. 1819-1848. Sister to C. B. Nov-
elist. Her Wuthering Heights shows in places
greater power than either of her sisters possessed,
but as a whole is strained and unnatural. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4. Emily Brontë, by A.
Mary F. Robinson, and London Athenæum, June 16,
1883. Pub. Har.
Brooke, Arthur.
c. 1563. Poet. Wrote the
Tragical Hist. of Romeo and Juliet, a paraphrase
of Bandello's novel, the source of Shakespeare's
drama.
Brooke, Charlotte.
1793. Daughter to H. B.
Author of Reliques of Irish Poetry translated into
Eng. verse, etc.
Brooke, Mrs. Frances Moore. 1745-1789. Author
of several novels, the opera Rosina, and a periodi-
cal called The Old Maid.
Brooke, Henry. 1706-1783. Author of plays, po-
ems, and a once famous novel called The Fool of
Quality. Pub. Mac.
Brooke, Lord. See Greville, Fulke.
Brooke, Stopford. 1832
Religious writer.
Author Life of F. W. Robertson, Freedom in the
Ch. of England, Christ in Modern Life, Theology
in the Eng. Poets, Primer of Eng. Lit., Sermons,
etc. Style clear, thoughtful, and strong. Pub.
Арь. Мас.
Brooks, Chas. Shirley. 1815-1874. Dramatist and
Novelist. Author Poems of Wit and Humor, The
Gordian Knot, etc. Pub. Har.
Broome, Richard.
1562. Dramatist. Wrote
in conjunction with others.
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Brougham [broo'am or broo'm], Henry, Lord.
1779-1868. Statesman and orator. A man of
strong intellect, whose speeches are among the
ablest of his time. A versatile writer, among whose
numerous works are Eloquence of the Ancients
and Lives of Men of Letters. See Autobiography
pub. 1871; Edinburgh Rev. April, 1858, and Life
by Lord Campbell. His works in 10 vols., pub.
1857.
Broughton, Rhoda. c. 1838
Novelist. Author
of Red as a Rose is She, Nancy, Belinda, etc.
Style spirited, but wanting in refinement of expres-
sion. Pub. Lit.
Brown, John. 1810-1882. Scotch essayist and
physician. Best known by his exquisite story of
Rab and his Friends. Pub. Hou.
Brown, Thomas. 1778-1820. Scotch philosophical
writer.
Brown, Tom. 1663-1704. Humorous and immoral
poet and miscellaneous writer.
Browne, Edward Harold. 1811
Bp. Win-
chester. Theologian. Author of The Pentateuch
and Elohistic Psalms, Sermons on the Atonement,
etc. Pub. Dut.
Browne, Isaac Hawkins. 1706-1760. Poet. Au-
thor of A Pipe of Tobacco, etc.
Browne, Sir Thos. 1605-1682. Author of a treatise
on Christian Morals, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia
or Urn-Burial, etc. A writer of striking genius
whose works will always attract thoughtful readers.
Style meditative and imaginative, but frequently
obscure. See complete edition in Bohn's Anti-
quarian Library. Pub. Mac. Rob.
Browne, Wm. 1590-1645. Poet. Wrote Britan-
nia's Pastorals, Shepherd's Pipe, etc. His style is
2
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easy and harmonious, and some of his lyrics are
yet read.
Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth [Barrett.] 1809–1861.
Poet. By many critics given the highest place
among poets of her sex, but her verse, in the main,
appeals to a limited class of readers. It has a mas-
culine strength, a passionate vehemence of expres-
sion, and it is often pathetic and tender, but its
frequent obscurity is a grave defect. Aurora Leigh,
Casa Guidi Windows, and Sonnets from the Portu-
guese, are among her chief works. See Letters of,
edited by R. H. Hone, 1877, Contemporary Rev.
1873, and Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub. Mil.
Browning, Robert. 1812
Poet. Husband
·
to E. B. B. Author of a long series of poems,
some of them obscure and enigmatical to the last
degree, but all bearing the marks of great genius.
Paracelsus, Sordello, Pippa Passes, The Ring and
The Book, Fifine at the Fair, and Jocoseria are
some of them. His circle of sincere admirers is
small, but shorter poems of his, like Hervé Riel,
and the Pied Piper of Hamelin, are widely known
and read. See Lit. World, March 11, 1882, Cen-
tury Mag. December, 1881, and Stedman's Victorian
Poets. Pub. Hou.
Brunton, Mrs. Mary Balfour. 1778-1818. Scotch
novelist. Author Self Control and Discipline.
Pub: Har.
Bryant, Jacob.
logical writer.
Bryce, James.
1715-1804. Classical and mytho-
1838
Historian. Author Na-
and The Holy Roman
tive Education in India,
Empire. Pub. Har. Mac.
Brydges, Sir Sam'l Egerton.
lific writer in verse and prose.
tic and eccentric.
1762-1837. A pro-
Style often fantas-
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Buchanan, George. 1506-1582. Scotch poet and
historian. Wrote a Latin version of the Psalms,
and a Latin Hist. of Scotland. See Hallam's Lit.
of Europe.
Buchanan, Robert. 1841
Scotch poet. Au-
thor Idyls and Legends, London Poems, Balder
the Beautiful, etc. A writer of some power, but
one whose verse is marred by frequent affectations.
See Stedman's Victorian Poets, and Contemporary
Rev. November, 1873. Pub. Har. Hou. Rou.
Buckhurst, Lord. See Sackville, Thos.
Buckingham, Duke of. See Villiers, George.
Buckinghamshire, Duke of. See Sheffield, John.
Buckland, Francis Trevelyan. 1826-1880. Natu-
ralist. Son to W. B. Author Curiosities of Nat.
Hist., Familiar Hist. British Fishes, etc.
Buckland, Wm. 1784-1856. Geological writer of
note.
Buckle, Henry Thos. 1822-1862. Historian. His
great work, The Hist. of Civilization, was left un-
finished. His style is easy and flowing, but his in-
ferences and conclusions are frequently contro-
verted. See Atlantic Monthly, Jan. and April,
1863. Pub. Apl.
Budgell, Eustace. 1685-1736. Essayist. Author
of all the papers in the Spectator signed X.
Bull, George. 1634-1710. Bp. St. David's. Theo-
logian. An opponent of Calvinism, against which
his Latin treatise, Harmonia Apostolica, is aimed.
Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward Geo. 1803-1873. Nov-
elist and Poet. Several of his 25 novels, like The
Caxtons, My Novel, Harold, and Kenelm Chil-
lingly, are masterpieces of their kind. Others as
well known are Pelham, Zanoni, Last Days of Pom-
peii, Rienzi, etc. Richelieu, Money, and Lady of
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Lyons are his most popular dramas. King Arthur
and The New Timon are two of his longer poems.
See Memoir, by Lord Lytton, Quarterly Rev., Jan.
1865, Blackwood's Mag. Mar., 1873, and Ten-
nyson's poem The New Timon. Pub. Har.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert.
"Owen Mere-
Au-
dith." 1831
Poet. Son to preceding.
thor of Lucile, Fables in Verse, The Ring of
Amasis, etc. His verse has melody and strength,
but Lucile, his chief poem, a novel in verse, is as-
serted to be a plagiarism. See Stedman's Victo-
rian Poets.
Bunyan, John. 1628-1688. Allegorist. Author
Pilgrim's Progress, Holy War, etc. The first named
is the most famous allegory in the world. The
product of a strong, vivid imagination, it holds the
attention of cultured and uncultured minds alike.
See Biographies of, by Southey, and Macaulay, and
Bunyan, by J. A. Froude in Eng. Men of Letters.
Burke, Edmund. 1730-1797. Orator and states-
man. As a political writer he has few equals.
Among his best efforts are Letters on a Regicide
Peace, Letters to a Noble Lord, and Orations on
the Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Style pol-
ished and cultured. See Morley's Life of, 1867.
See select works edited by E. J. Payne, 1874.
Burnand, Francis Cowley. 1837
Happy Thoughts, The New History of Sanford
and Merton, etc. Pub. Rob.
Author
Burnet, Gilbert. 1643-1715. Bp. Salisbury. His-
torian. Author Hist. Reformation, Hist. My Own
Times, etc. A vivacious, diffuse narrator. See
Macaulay's Hist. of England. Pub. Dut. Mac.
Burnet, James. Lord Monboddo. 1714-1799. An
eccentric writer, noted for his theory that mankind
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once had tails, which the habit of sitting on had
worn away.
Burnet, Thos. 1635-1715. Author Telluris Sacra
Theoria, a fantastic system of Geology, written in
an eloquent and majestic style.
Burney, Charles. 1726-1814.
Author Gen. Hist.
See Life, by
of Music, Life of Metastasio, etc.
his daughter, Madame D'Arblay.
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert. 1759-1796. Scotch poet. A singer
of love songs. His verse shows a gentle, tender
spirit, and a sympathy for all created things, new to
the poetry of his day. Tam O'Shanter, Twa Dogs,
and The Jolly Beggars, show the humorous side of
his nature. The Cotter's Saturday Night, Auld
Lang Syne, A Man's a Man for a' That, are uni-
versally known, and some of his lyrics will last as
long as the language. See Carlyle's Misc. Essays;
Craik's Eng. Lit. vol. 2; also Burns, by Shairp, in
Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Por.
Burton, John Hill. 1809-1881. Scotch historian.
Author Life and Correspondence of David Hume,
Hist. Reign of Q. Anne, Hist. Scotland, etc.
Burton, Robert. 1576-1640. Author of Anatomy
of Melancholy. Style fantastic, original, and dif-
fuse. Pub. Apl. Clx. Dut.
Butler, Alban. 1710-1773. Author Lives of the
Fathers, Saints, etc., Letters on the Hist. of the
Popes, etc. See edition of the Lives, 1812, with
Life of A. Butler by Chas. Butler. Pub. Sad.
Butler, Charles. 1750-1832. Neph. to A. B. Au-
thor Hora Biblice, continuation of the Lives of
the Saints, etc. See Alibone's Dict.
Butler, Joseph. 1692-1752. Bp. Bristol. Theolo-
gian. His great work, Analogy between Natural
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and Revealed Religion, is much studied and ad-
mired. See edition of his works, 1867. Pub.
Har.
Butler, Samuel. 1612-1680. Satirical poet. His
Hudibras, written in ridicule of the Puritans, is
witty and spirited, but too long for the taste of
modern readers. See edition of his works by Gil-
fillan, 1854. Pub. Apl.
Butler, Wm. Archer. 1814-1848.
Author Lect. on
Hist. of Ancient Philosophy, etc. See Woodward's
Life of. Pub. Ca. Mac.
Byrd, Wm. 1540-1623. Poet. Author of the fa-
mous lines beginning, "My mind to me a kingdom
is."
Byrom, John. 1691-1763. Pastoral poet.
Byron, Henry James. 1835-1884. Dramatist. Au-
thor Babes in the Wood, Our Boys, Not such a
Fool as he Looks, Good News, etc.
Byron, Lord. See Gordon, George.
Cædmon [kǎd'mon].
c. 680.
Anglo-Saxon
See
*poet. A monk of Whitby, who wrote about 670 a
metrical paraphrase of the Scriptures. It is ac-
cented and alliterative, like all Anglo-Saxon poetry,
and marks the beginning of Eng. poetry.
Thorpe's edition of, London, 1832.
Calamy, Edmund. 1600-1666. Theological writer.
Calamy, Edmund. 1671-1732. Grandson to preced-
ing. Author of the Nonconformists' Memorial, De-
fence of Moderate Nonconformity, etc. See his
history of his Life and Times, edited by Rutt, 1829.
Calverley, Chas. Stuart. 1831-1884. Poet. Au-
thor of Fly-Leaves, translation of Theocritus, etc.
Pub. Ho.
Camden, Wm. 1551-1623. Antiquary. Author
of Britannia, a Latin description of Britain, etc.
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Campbell, George.
1719-1796. Scotch theologian.
Author Dissertations on Miracles, Philosophy of
Rhetoric, Lect. on Eccl. Hist., etc. Pub. Har.
Campbell, John. 1708-1775. Historical and polit-
ical writer.
Campbell, John, Lord Chancellor. 1779-1861. Bi-
ographer. Author Lives of the Lord Chancellors,
and Lives of the Chief Justices. See Edinburgh
Rev. Oct. 1857 ; and see H. Martineau's Biograph-
ical Sketches. Pub. Apl. Lit.
Campbell, Thomas. 1777-1844. Scotch poet. Au-
thor Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming,
etc., poems artificial in cast. His lyrics, like Ho-
henlinden, Ye Mariners of England, etc., are fine
specimens of lyric verse. See Life of by Dr. Beat-
tie, 1849. See W. M. Rossetti's edition of his
poems with critical introduction.
Canning, George. 1770-1827. Writer of witty par-
odies. Needy Knife-Grinder, etc.
Carew, Lady Elizabeth.
the tragedy of Marian.
Fl. c. 1613. Author of
Carew, Thomas. 1589-1639. Poet. His poems are
brief and mainly amatory in character. See com-
plete edition by W. Carew Hazlitt. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Carey, Henry. 1663-1743.
Dramatist and poet.
Author Chrononhotonthologos, The Dragon of
Wantley, the ballad of Sally in our Alley, and God
Save the King.
Carleton, Wm. 1798–1869. Irish novelist. Style
vigorous and picturesque. Pub. Rou.Sad.
Carlyle, Thomas. 1795-1881. Essayist and his-
torian. Author of Essays, Chartism, Heroes and
Hero Worship, Sartor Resartus, Past and Present,
Latter-Day Pamphlets, Life of Sterling, History
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French Revolution, Life of Frederick the Great,
etc. A vigorous, opinionated writer, with a style
which is vivid and picturesque, but often wordy and
obscure. A man of great but wayward intellec-
tual powers. See Eclectic Mag. 1881. Reminis-
cences by Carlyle; Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle,
and Emerson and Carlyle. Pub. Hou. Har. Lip.
Carpenter, Lant. 1780-1840. Theological writer.
Carpenter, Wm. Benj. 1813
Physiologist
of note. Son to L. C. Author of Principles of
Human Physiology, Zoölogy, and the Instinct of
Animals, The Microscope, etc. Pub. Apl. Lit.
Carr, J. Comyns. 1849
Art Critic and Edi-
tor. Author of Drawing by the Italian Masters,
St. Albans, Essays, etc.
Pub. Mac.
Carte, Thos. 1686-1754. Historian. Author Hist.
England to 1654.
Carter, Elizabeth. 1717-1806. Classical writer.
Author of a translation of Epictetus and original
poems. The most learned woman of her time.
Cartwright, Wm. 1611-1643. Poet. He enjoyed
a great reputation in his day.
Cary, Henry Francis. 1772-1844. Poet. Author
of a much admired blank verse translation of Dante.
See Memoirs of, by his son, 1847.
Caxton, Wm. 1412-1492. The first Eng. printer.
Was author and translator of some 60 books.
Cayley, Arthur. 1821
Mathematical writer.
Cecil [ses'il or sis'il], Wm. 1520-1598. States-
man. Author of Precepts addressed to his son.
Centlivre [sent-liv'er], Mrs. Susanna. 1680-1723.
Dramatist. Her best comedies are The Busybody
and The Wonder, the last of which still keeps the
stage. See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1882.
Challoner, Bp. Richard. 1691-1781. Author of an
Handbook of English Authors.
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Eng. version of the Bible, Grounds of the Catholic
Doctrine, etc.
Chalmers [chaw'merz], George. 1742-1825. Scotch
historian.
Chalmers, Thomas. 1780-1847. Scotch theolo-
gian. The most powerful preacher of his time.
Author of Natural Theology, Christian Evidences,
etc. See Memoirs of, by Wm. Hanna; do. by
F. Wayland; also, Spare Hours, 1st series, by Dr.
John Brown. Pub. Har.
Chamberlayne, Wm. 1619-1689. Poet. Author
Love's Victory and Pharonidia.
Chambers, Robert. 1802-1871. Scotch publisher.
Author of the noted Vestiges of the Nat. Hist. of
Creation, etc. See Memoirs of, by W. Chambers.
Chambers, Wm. 1800-1883. Scotch publisher.
Bro. to R. C. Author Memoirs of Rob't Chambers,
Wintering at Mentone, etc. The brothers were
joint editors of many popular works: Information
for the People, Encyclopædia, Book of Days, Mis-
cellany, etc. Pub. Lip.
Chapman, George. 1557-1634. Dramatist. Chiefly
noted for a fine translation of Homer in 14-syllable
verse. See his Homer, 4 vols., London, 1858;
Dramatic Works, 1873; George Chapman, by
Swinburne.
Chapone [shǎ-pōn'], Mrs. Hester. 1727-1801. Au-
thor of treatises on Morals and Philosophy.
Charles, Mrs. Elizabeth Rundle. 1826
Au-
thor of the noted Schönberg-Cotta Family, and
other excellent semi-religious stories. Pub. Do.
Charlesworth, Maria Louisa. 1819-1880. Author
of much religious fiction, of which Ministering
Children is the best example. Pub. Apl. Ca. Phi.
Chatham, Lord. See Pitt, Wm.
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Chatterton, Thomas. 1752-1770. Poet. Author
of imitations of old Eng. poetry, which for a short
time deceived the scholars of that day, and as the
work of a boy of 17 were very remarkable. See
Chatterton, a Biographical Study, by Daniel Wil-
son, London, 1870. Pub. Hou.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. 1340-1400. Poet. Author of
numerous lesser poems, but The Canterbury Tales
is his greatest work. He is rightly called the
Father of Eng. Song, since it is with him that Eng.
poetry really begins. He gave form to the lan-
guage, and blended the French and Eng. influences
into a harmonious whole. His verse, in the main,
is easy and musical, and shows a love of nature.
See publications of the Chaucer Society; Chaucer,
by A. W. Ward; and Gilman's edition of Chaucer
in 3 vols., 1879. Pub. Hou.
Chesterfield, Earl of. See Stanhope, Philip.
Chettle, Henry. Fl. c. 1600.
but valueless.
Dramatist. Prolific,
Chillingworth, Wm. 1602-1644. Theologian. Au-
thor of Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to
Salvation, a celebrated work. See Oxford edition,
3 vols., 8vo, 1838.
hitty, Joseph. 1776-1841. Jurist. Author of
Practical Treatise on Criminal Law, Synopsis of
Practice, and other invaluable legal text-books.
Pub. Lip.
horley, Henry Fothergill. 1808-1872. Musical
critic. Author Thirty Years' Musical Recollections,
Criticisms on Modern German Music, etc., and of
numerous songs and opera librettos. See Autobi
ography, Memoirs and Letters, 2 vols., London,
1873. Pub. Ho.
Christmas, Henry. See Noel-Fearn.
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Church, Alfred John.
1829
Stories from
Homer, Stories from Virgil, Poems, etc. Of the
poems, Unseen is one of the best. Pub. Har. Do.
Church, Richard Wm. 1815
Author Life of
Anselm, University Sermons, Civilization before
and after Christianity, Sacred Poetry of Early Re-
ligions, Spenser in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. Pub.
Har. Mac.
Churchill, Charles. 1731-1764. Satirical poet. The
Rosciad is his chief work. Was at one time an ex-
tremely popular poet. See Essay on, by Macaulay.
Cibber [sib'ber], Colley. 1671-1757. Dramatist.
Author of The Careless Husband, She Would and
She Would Not, and some 20 other plays. See his
Apology for his Life.
Clare, John. 1793-1864. Pastoral poet.
Author
Poems of Rural Life and Scenery, etc. Some of
his verse has great beauty. See F. L. Cherry's Life
of, London, 1873.
Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde, Edward.
Clarke, Adam.
1760-1832. Irish bibliographer.
Author Commentary on the Bible, Bibliographical
Dict., Succession of Sacred Lit., etc. An industri-
ous, careful writer. Pub. Phi.
Clarke, Charles Cowden. 1787-1877. Author of
Shakespeare Characters, Molière Characters, Riches
of Chaucer, etc. Pub. Scr.
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Cowden.
1809
Wife to
C. C. C. Shakespearean scholar. Author of the
noted Concordance of Shakespeare, World-Noted
Women, and several vols. of verse. With her hus-
band was editor of an annotated edition of Shake-
speare, 1869. Pub. Cas. Lit.
Clarke, Samuel. 1675-1729. Metaphysician. Au-
thor of numerous metaphysical works written in a
simple yet vigorous and eloquent style.
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Cleveland, John. 1613-1658. Poet. A famous
Cavalier writer. His verse is satirical and amatory
in character.
Clifford, Wm. Kingdon. 1845-1879. Scientist.
Author Lect. and Essays, Elements of Dynamics,
Seeing and Thinking, and Mathematical Papers.
See biographical introduction to Lect. and Essays,
by F. Pollock. Pub. Mac.
Clive, Mrs. Caroline. 1801-1873. Novelist. Author
Paul Ferrol, Why Paul Ferrol Killed his Wife, etc.
Clough [kluf], Arthur Hugh. 1819–1861. Author of
The Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich, Amours de Voyage,
both hexameter poems, Dipsychus, and minor po-
ems. His verse shows a mastery of metre and a
thoughtful, earnest spirit. See Atlantic Monthly,
April, 1862; Hutton's Essays; Samuel Wadding
ton's A. H. Clough; Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.
Pub. Ho. Mac.
Cobbe, Frances Power. 1822
Philosophical
writer. Author of Intuitive Morals, Religious
Duty, Darwinism in Morals, The Peak in Darien,
Duties of Women, etc. A clear, able, and vigorous
writer. Pub. El.
Cobbett, Wm. 1762-1835.
Political writer. Style
idiomatic and rancorous. See Robert Walker's
How to Get on in the World, as Demonstrated by
the Life and Language of William Cobbett.
Cobden, Richard. 1804-1865. Statesman. See Po-
litical Writings of, London, 1867; Speeches, etc.,
London, 1870; Lives by Gilchrist, 1865, and Mor-
ley, 1881; and Recollections of, by Ashworth. Pub.
Apl.
Cockburn [kō'burn], Henry Thos., Lord. 1779-
1854. Jurist. Author Life and Correspondence of
Lord Jeffrey, and Memorials of his Times.
Coke, Sir Edward. c. 1549-1634. Jurist. Best
Handbook of English Authors.
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known by his famous Coke upon Littleton, or the
First Institute.
Colenso, John Wm. 1814-1883. Bp. Natal. Theo-
logian. Author of The Pentateuch and Joshua
Critically Examined, Lect. on the Pentateuch and
Moabite Stone, etc. An able and vigorous writer.
Coleridge [kōl'rij], Hartley. 1796-1849. Poet.
Son to S. T. C. Author of Poems, Essays, Life
of Massinger, etc. Style in both prose and verse
clear and beautiful. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.
Coleridge, Henry Nelson. 1800-1843. Neph. to
S. T. C. Essayist. Style able and scholarly.
Coleridge, John Taylor. 1790-1876. Neph. to S. T.
C. Author of an annotated Blackstone, Memoir of
John Keble, etc.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 1772-1834. Poet and
philosopher. Author of The Ancient Mariner,
Christabel, Kubla Khan, etc., in verse;
Lect. on
Shakespeare, Table-Talk, The Friend, Biographia
Literaria, etc., in prose. A man of great genius,
who accomplished little commensurate with it. His
best, however, is unsurpassable. See 9 vol. edition,
N. Y., 1853-4. See Gilman's Life of; Personal
Recollections of Joseph Cottle.
Coleridge, Sara. 1803-1852. Dau. to S. T. C. and
wife to H. N. C. Editor of her father's works,
and author of the exquisite romance Phantasmion.
A writer of much critical ability. See Memoir of.
Pub. Har. 1873.
Collier, Jeremy. 1650-1726. Theologian. His fa-
mous pamphlet against the immorality of the stage
greatly helped to purify Eng. literature.
Collier, John Payne. 1789-1883. Shakespearean
scholar. Best known in connection with the fa-
mous Collier MSS. of Notes and Emendations to
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the text of Shakespeare. See Atlantic Monthly,
Oct., 1859, and Sept., 1861. Pub. Scr.
Collins, Mortimer. 1827-1876. Novelist. Author
Sweet Anne Page, Marquis and Merchant, etc.
Pub. Apl. Har.
Collins, Wm. 1720-1756. Poet. Famous for his
musical odes, as The Passions, Evening, and the
poem How Sleep the Brave. C. occupies a high
place among minor poets. See Johnson's Lives of
the Poets.
Collins, Wm. Wilkie. 1824
Novelist. Excels
all other novelists in the construction of plots. The
Woman in White is his most famous story. Pub.
Har.
Colman, George.
1733-1794. Dramatist. Com-
posed nearly 30 comedies, of which The Jealous
Wife is one of the best.
Colman, George. The Younger. 1762-1836. Dram-
atist. Son to preceding. A writer of spirited
comedies, such as The Heir-at-Law, Poor Gentle-
man, John Bull, The Iron Chest, etc.
Combe [koom], Andrew. 1797-1847. Scotch phys-
iological writer. Pub. Har.
Combe, George. 1788-1858. Scotch phrenologist.
Bro. to A. C. Author Constitution of Man, etc.
See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches and
Capen's Reminiscences of G. Combe. Pub. Har.
Congreve [kŏng/grēv], Wm. 1670-1729. Drama-
tist. Author of the tragedy of The Mourning Bride,
and of The Double Dealer, Old Bachelor, Love for
Love, and other coarse but brilliant comedies. See
edition by Leigh Hunt, London, 1849.
Conybeare [kŭn'ĭ-běr], John. 1692-1755. Theolo-
gian of note.
Conybeare, John Josias. 1779-1824. Grandson to
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J. C. Antiquary. Author of Illustrations of Anglo-
Saxon Poetry, a work of much value.
Conybeare, Wm. Daniel. 1787-1857. Geological
writer of note.
Conybeare, Wm. John.
Theologian. Author with
1857. Son to W. D. C.
Dean Howson of The
Life and Epistles of St. Paul.
Cook, Eliza.
1817
Pub. Ran. Scr.
Poet. Author of The Old
Arm Chair, etc. Style simple and tender.
Coombe [koom], Wm. 1741-1823. A voluminous
satirical and humorous writer, best known by his
poem Dr. Syntax. Pub. Rou.
Cooper, Anthony Ashley. 3d Earl of Shaftesbury.
1671-1713. Ethical writer. Author of Character-
istics of Men, etc.
Copleston [kop'el-ston], Edward. 1776-1849. Bp.
Llandaff. Theological writer.
Corbet, Richard. 1562-1635. Bp. Norwich. Poet
of indifferent merit.
Cornwall, Barry. See Procter, B. W.
Coryat, Thomas. 1577-1617. Writer of travels.
Best known by Coryat's Crudities, entertaining,
but full of affectations.
Costello, Dudley. 1803-1865. Novelist. Author
Stories from a Screen, Faint Heart Never Won
Fair Lady, The Millionaire, etc.
Costello, Louisa Stuart. 1815-1870. Novelist and
writer of travels. Sister to D. C. Author of The
Queen Mother, the Rose Garden of Persin, etc.
Cottle, Joseph. 1770-1853. Poet. Best known,
however, by his Reminiscences of Coleridge and
Southey.
Cotton, Charles. 1630-1687. Poet and translator
of Montaigne.
Cotton, Nathaniel. 1721-1788. Poet. Author Vis-
ions in Verse.
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Cotton, Sir Robert. 1570-1631. Antiquary and
historical collector.
Coverdale, Miles. 1487-1568. Bp. Exeter. Trans-
lator, with Tyndale, of the Bible. The first trans-
lation of the whole Bible was by C., and appeared
in 1635.
Cowley, Abraham. 1618-1667. Poet and essayist.
His popularity, once great, is now slight. His verse
is ingenious, but contains little poetic feeling. His
most pretentious poem is The Davideis. See Aik-
in's edition, 3 vols., 1802.
Cowper [koo'per or kow'per], Wm.
1731-1800.
Poet. His verse is mainly religious or didactic, but
his humorous ballad of John Gilpin is widely famous.
He was the author of many beautiful and well-
known hymns, of a long poem, The Task, and the
exquisite Lines on My Mother's Picture. Style
quiet and meditative. The best edition of C. is that
by Southey, with biography, 1838. See Cowper, by
Goldwin Smith, in Eng. Men of Letters.
Cox, Sir George Wm. 1827- Historian. Author
Hist. of Greece, Mythology of the Aryan Nations,
Tales of Ancient Greece, etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Ho.
Coxe, Wm. 1744-1828. Historian. Author Hist.
House of Austria, Kings of Spain, Memoirs of
Duke of Marlborough, etc. A standard writer.
Pub. Apl.
Crabbe, George. 1754-1832. Poet. Writer of re-
alistic, matter-of-fact narrative poems: The Village,
The Parish Register, etc. See complete edition of
1834, 8 vols., with Life. See Atlantic Monthly,
May, 1880, "A Neglected Poet."
Crabbe, George. 1778-1834. Philologist. Author
of Hist. Eng. Law and a noted work on Eng. Syn-
onyms. Pub. Har.
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Craig-Knox, Mrs. Isa. 1831
Scotch poet.
Author Ode to Burns, Duchess Agnes, etc. Pub.
Cas.
Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock. 1826
Nov-
elist and poet. Author of quiet, helpful, earnest
stories, among which John Halifax, Gentleman, is
the most noted. Others are, A Brave Lady, A
Noble Life, A Woman's Kingdom, Mistress and
Maid, etc. Philip My King and Douglas are two of
her finest poems. Pub. Har. Hou. Mac.
Craik, George Lillie. 1799-1866. Historian. Au-
thor of a valuable Hist. Eng. Lit., The English of
Shakespeare, Bacon and his Philosophy, etc. See
Rolfe's Craik's English of Shakespeare. Pub. Scr.
Cranmer, Thos. 1489-1555. Abp. Canterbury. The-
ologian. See Archdeacon Todd's Life of, 1831.
Crashaw [crash'aw], Richard. c. 1620-1650. Poet.
Author of Steps to the Temple, etc. His verse is
fanciful and mystical, but always melodious. See
Turnbull's complete edition of, London, 1858. See
G. MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Corn-
hill Mag., April, 1883.
Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd. 1812-1878. Histo-
rian. Author Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,
Hist. Ottoman Turks, Hist. of England. Pub. Ho.
Har.
Croker, John Wilson. 1780-1857. Essayist and
historical writer. Style caustic and vigorous. See
H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches.
Croker, Thos. Crofton. 1798–1854. Irish novelist.
Author of romances and fairy tales, the latter of
great beauty.
Croly, George, 1780-1860. Irish poet. Author
Angel of the World, Catiline, etc. His verse has
a showy, tinsel brilliancy. Pub. Har. Rou.
3
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Handbook of English Authors.
Cruden [kroo'den], Alexander. 1701-1770. Scotch
theologian. Famous as the author of the well-
known Concordance to the Bible. Pub. Lip. Ran.
Wh.
Cudlip, Mrs. Annie Hall [Thomas]. 1838
Novelist. Author Denis Donne, A Passion in
Tatters, Playing for High Stakes, etc. Pub. Har.
Cudworth, Ralph. 1617-1688. Philosopher. His
True Intellectual System ranks among Eng. prose
classics. See edition 1845, 3 vols.
Cumberland, Richard. 1632-1718. Bp. Peterbor-
ough. Philosophical writer.
Cumberland, Richard. 1732-1811. Great-grandson
to preceding. Poet and dramatist. Wrote The
West Indian, Wheel of Fortune, and other rather
sentimental comedies. See edition of his dramas,
by Jansen, 1813.
Cumming, John. 1810-1881. Scotch theologian and
popular London preacher. Author Apocalyptic
Sketches, Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed, etc.
Cunningham, Allan. 1785-1842. Scotch poet and
critic. C. wrote many spirited songs, among which
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is best known.
Author Hist. British Painters, Life of Wilkie, etc.
See Poems and Songs of, edited by Peter Cunning-
ham, 1847. Pub. Har.
Cunningham, John. 1729-1773. Irish lyrical poet.
Cunningham, John Wm. 1780-1861. Poet.
Cunningham, Peter. 1816-1869. Son to A. C. An-
tiquary. Author Handbook of London, Modern
London, Memoir of J. M. W. Turner, etc.
Dalrymple, Sir David. 1726-1792. Scotch histo-
rian. Author Annals of Scotland, etc.
Handbook of English Authors.
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Dalrymple, John Hamilton. 1726-1810.
Scotch
historian. Author Memoirs of Great Britain.
Daniel, Samuel. 1562-1619. Poet and historian. D.
wrote a Hist. of the Civil Wars in 8-line stanzas,
also a prose Hist. of England. See Campbell's
Specimens of Eng. Poets.
D'Arblay, Madame, née Frances Burney. 1752–
1840. Novelist. Author Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla,
etc. See her Diary, pub. 1846; also Contemporary
Rev., Dec., 1882. Pub. Har. Rob.
Darwin, Chas. Robert. 1809-1882. Naturalist. The
most notable scientist of the age, and the origina-
tor of the Evolution Theory. He had a clear, well-
balanced mind, and his statements are based on
careful observation and reflection. Origin of Spe-
cies, Variation under Domestication, Expression of
Emotion in Man and Animals, Descent of Man,
Insectivorous Plants, and Movements in Plants are
his chief works. See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1882;
Century Mag., Jan., 1883. Pub. Apl.
Darwin, Erasmus. 1731-1802. Grandfather to C. D.
Poet and physician. Author of The Botanic Gar-
den, a hard, metallic poem of a scientific cast, pol-
ished and elaborated to excess. See Miss Seward's
Memoirs of; Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2; Krause's
Life of.
Davenant, Sir Wm. 1605-1688. Dramatist. D.
wrote 25 comedies and tragedies, and the long and
feeble heroic poem Gondibert.
Poets, vol. 2.
See Ward's Eng.
Poet. Author of
Davies, Sir John. 1570-1626.
Nosce Teipsum, a poem on the immortality of the
soul, of great power and beauty, and a poetical trea-
tise on dancing, entitled Orchestra. See Grosart's
complete edition, 1876. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. I.
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Handbook of English Authors.
Davy, Sir Humphrey.
1778-1829. Chemist. Au-
thor Researches Chemical and Philosophical, Ele-
ments of Chemical Philosophy, Consolations of
Travel, etc. See Life and Works of, by John Davy,
9 vols., London, 1840. Pub. Rob.
Day, Thomas. 1748-1789. Author of the famous
juvenile tale Sandford and Merton. Pub. Har.
Hou. Rob.
Defoe, Daniel.
1661-1731. Political writer and
novelist. His stories form the link connecting the
tales and romances of the 17th cent. with the novel
of the 18th. Moll Flanders, Capt. Singleton, and
Robinson Crusoe are among his chief works. Style
lively, rapid, and realistic. See Oxford edition, 20
vols., 1840. See Life, by Lee, 3 vols.; also, Defoe,
by Wm. Minto, in Eng. Men of Letters.
Dekker, Thomas. c. 1570-1641. Dramatist. Au-
thor Satiriomastix, etc. D. wrote mainly with other
dramatists, but so far as his separate work can
be traced, it shows tenderness and pathos. See
Eng. edition of Dekker, 1873. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 2.
De la Rame [deh-lä-rä-mä′], Louisa, "Ouida." 1840
Novelist. Author of Strathmore, Moths,
Bebée, Wanda, etc. An entertaining, sprightly
writer, of much genius, whose works are of a doubt-
ful moral tendency. Pub. Lip.
De Morgan, Augustus. 1806-1871. Mathematician.
Author Essays on Probabilities, Formal Logic, Par-
adoxes and Problems, etc. See Memoir by his wife.
Denham, Sir John. 1615-1668. Poet.
His poem
Cooper's Hill shows fine descriptive powers. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Dennis, John. 1657-1734.
Dramatist and critic.
Author of A Plot and No Plot, Appius and Vir-
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ginia, The Usefulness of the Stage, The Grounds of
Criticism, etc.
De Quincey, Thomas. 1785-1859. Critic and essay-
ist. A great master of Eng. prose. He possessed
great acuteness and fine descriptive powers, but
lacked creative ability. Confessions of an Opium-
Eater and Murder Considered as one of the Fine
Arts are two of the best examples of his style.
See Page's Life of, 1877; Biographical Sketches by
H. Martineau. Pub. Hou.
Derby, Earl of. See Stanley, Edward G. S.
De Redcliffe, Lord Stratford. 1788-1880. Poet and
theologian.
De Vere, Sir Aubrey.
1788-1846. Irish poet. Au-
thor Julian the Apostate, etc.
De Vere, Aubrey Thos. 1814-
to preceding.
Irish poet. Son
Author May Carols, Irish Odes,
The Sisters, etc. His verse is pleasing, and pos-
sesses merit.
De Vere, Edward. Earl of Oxford. 1545 – 1604.
1545-1604.
Poet.
Dibdin, Charles. 1745-1814. Poet and miscellane-
ous writer. Author of a complete Hist. of the
Eng. Stage, but best known by his naval songs,
over 1200 in number. For the latter, see Hogarth's
edition, 1843.
Dibdin, Thos.
1771-1841.
song-writer and playwright.
Hist. of England, etc.
Son to C. D. A prolific
Author of a Metrical
Dibdin, Thos. Frognall. 1776-1847. Bibliographer.
Neph. to C. D. Author Bibliomania, Typograph-
ical Antiquities of Gt. Britain, Bibliographical De-
cameron, etc.
Dicey, Edward Stephen. 1832
Journalist.
Author Memoir of Cavour, Rome in 1860, The
Schleswig-Holstein War, etc.
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Handbook of English Authors.
Dick, Thomas.
1774-1857. Scotch writer. The
Christian Philosopher is his best known work.
Pub. Har. Clx. Phi.
Dickens, Charles. 1812-1870. Novelist. Author
of some 30 novels and tales, all bearing marks of
genius and originality. He is widely read and ad-
mired, and his novels delight readers of all ages.
His principal faults consist in elaborating and dwell-
ing on the grotesque and unattractive side of hu-
manity, and in overstraining the pathetic portions
of his novels. Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nick-
leby, Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver
Twist, and the Christmas Carol are among the best
of his works. See Fields's Yesterdays with Au-
thors, and Lives by Forster and Mackenzie. Pub.
Apl. Est. Har. Hou. Le. Lip. Lit. Pet. Por. Rou.
Os.
Digby, Sir Kenelm.
writer.
1603-1665.
Philosophical
Digby, Kenelm Henry. 1800-1880. Archæologist.
Author Mores Catholici, The Broad Stone of Honor,
etc. An industrious and careful writer.
Dilke, Chas. Wentworth. 1789-1864.
writer of note.
Dilke, Sir Chas. Wentworth. 1843
Critical
Grandson
to preceding. Traveler and political writer. Au-
thor Greater Britain, The Fall of Prince Florestan
of Monaco, etc. Pub. Har. Lip. Mac.
Dillon, Wentworth. Earl of Roscommon.
1633-
1684. Poet. Essay on Translated Verse is his
chief work. Style elegant and cold.
Disraeli [diz-ra'el-ee], Benj. 1805-1881. Novelist
and statesman. Son to I. D. A talented and suc-
cessful writer, possessed of great energy and
strength of will. In his novels the leading people
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of his time are satirized. Vivian Grey, his first
novel, and Endymion, his last, appeared fifty-five
years apart. Others are Contarini Fleming, Hen-
rietta Temple, Coningsby, Venetia, Tancred, and
Lothair, all brilliant and showy productions. Pub.
Apl. Har.
Disraeli, Isaac. 1766-1848. An industrious writer
of miscellaneous works, the best known being Cu-
riosities of Lit., Calamities of Authors, Quarrels of
Authors, etc. See edition of, by his son, 1850.
Pub. Arm. Har. Rou.
Dixon, Wm. Hepworth. 1821-1879. Historian and
biographer. Author Personal Hist. of Lord Bacon,
New America, Hist. of Two Queens, Her Majesty's
Tower, etc. Pub. Har. Lip.
Dobell [dŏ-bell'], Sydney. 1824-1874. Poet. A
writer who has an honorable place among modern
minor poets. Author of The Roman, Balder, etc.
See Stedman's Victorian Poets; Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 4. See complete English edition, 1875;
also, Life and Letters of, London, 1879.
Dobson, Austin. 1840
Poet and critic. Au-
thor Vignettes in Rhyme, Proverbs in Porcelain,
etc. An exceedingly graceful writer, whose poems.
all show a cultivated imagination and much tender-
ness of expression. Among the best are After
Sedan, The Dead Letter, and The Young Musi-
cian. Fielding, in Eng. Men of Letters, is his chief
prose work. See Century Mag., Oct. 1884. Pub. Ho.
Doddridge, Philip. 1702-1751. Moralist. Author
Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, Family
Expositor, Hymns, etc. Style plain and simple.
See edition of, Leeds, 1802, 10 vols. ; also, Life and
Correspondence, 5 vols., London, 1831, and Life, by
D. A. Harsha.
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Dodsley, Robert. 1703-1764. Poet and publisher.
Author Economy of Human Life, etc. Best known
by his Collection of Old Plays. See edition by
W. Carew Hazlitt, 1875.
Donne [don], John. 1573-1631. Poet and theolo-
gian. His versification is rugged, and his style ob-
scure and fantastic, but his poems, both religious
and amatory, contain much beauty of thought. His
seven Satires are vigorous efforts. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 1. See Dean Alford's 6 vol. edition,
8vo, London, 1838. Pub. Hou.
Doran, John. 1807-1878. Biographer. Author Lives
of Queens of the House of Hanover, Monarchs
Retired from Business, Hist. Court Fools, New
Pictures and Old Panels, etc. Pub. Arm.
Dorset, 6th Earl of.
See Sackville, Geo.
Dorset, 1st Earl of. See Sackville, Thos. See
Buckhurst, Lord.
Douglas, Gawain. 1474-1522. Bp. Dunkeld. Scotch
poet. D. was the first metrical translator of Virgil
in Gt. Britain. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1. See
complete Eng. edition by F. Small, 1874.
Dowden, Edward. 1843
Poet and Shake-
spearean scholar. Author Shakespeare's Mind and
Art, Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters, Poems, etc.
Pub. Har.
Drayton, Michael. 1563-1631. Poet. His chief
work is the Polyolbion, a poetical description of
Britain in 100,000 lines. A far better work is the
Nymphidia, an exquisitely graceful, mock heroic
fairy poem. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
Drummond, William [of Hawthornden]. 1585-1649.
Scotch poet. His Sonnets are his best production.
See Memoirs by Masson, 1863. Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 1.
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Dryden, John. 1631-1700. Poet and dramatist. Hist
verse takes a wide range: in satire we have Absa-
lom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, etc.; in theology,
Religio Laici, Hind and Panther, etc.; in drama,
some thirty plays; in translation, his Virgil; and in
lyric poetry, his magnificent Ode for St. Cecilia's
Day. D. had great genius, not always worthily em-
ployed. His dramas, when not stilted, are licen-
tious, and as a satirist he is bitter, personal, and
coarse. See Masson's Essays, and Lowell's Among
My Books; also, Dryden, by Saintsbury, in Eng.
Men of Letters. Pub. Hou. Har. Rou.
Dugdale, Sir Wm. 1605-1685. Antiquary. Author
Antiquities of Warwickshire, and other valuable
antiquarian works.
Dunbar, Wm. 1465-1530. Scotch poet. D. wrote
The Thistle and Rose, The Golden Terge, etc. His
witty, striking, and original genius is closely akin.
to that of Burns. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
D'Urfey, Thos. 1650-1723. Dramatist. Witty, but
coarse and immoral.
Dutt, Toru.
1856-1877. Hindu poetess. A writer
of much genius. Ballads of Hindustan, and Sheafs
Gleaned from French Fields, a vol. of fine Eng.
translations, are her chief works. See Lit. World,
June 17, 1882.
Dyce, Alexander. 1798-1869. Scotch Shakespear-
ean scholar of note. See his edition of Shakespeare,
with Glossary, 1867.
Dyer, George. 1755-1841. Author Hist. University
of Cambridge, etc.
Dyer, John. 1698-1758. Welsh poet. Author Gron-
gar Hill, The Fleece, and Ruins of Rome. His
verse is natural and unaffected. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 3.
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Handbook of English Authors.
Dyer, Thos. Henry. 1804
Historian. Au-
thor Hist. Modern Europe, Ancient Athens, Hist.
Kings of Rome, Hist. City of Rome, and Life of
Calvin. Pub. Lit.
Eadmer [ĕd'mer].
1124. Bp. St. Andrews.
Wrote a Latin Hist. of his Own Time.
Earle, John. 1601-1655. Bp. Worcester. The re-
puted author of the Micosmography, a remarkable
vol. of studies of character.
Eastlake, Sir Chas. 1793-1865. Artist.
Artist. Author
Hist. Gothic Revival, Materials for a Hist. Oil
Painting, etc. See Lady Eastlake's Biography of,
1870.
Eden [e'den], Sir Fred'k Morton. . 1766-1809. Au-
thor of a valuable Hist. of the Laboring Classes of
England, etc.
Edgeworth, Maria.
1767-1849. Novelist. Author
Rosamond, Castle Rackrent, Belinda, Helen, etc.
Style didactic, but entertaining. Her juvenile tales.
are numerous and popular. See Study of Miss
Edgeworth, by Mrs. Oliver, 1882. Pub. Har. Lip.
Rou.
Edwards, Amelia Blandford. 1831
Novelist
and Egyptologist. Author Barbara's History, Lord
Brackenbury, etc. A writer of much talent, whose
rank among Eng. novelists is a high one. See Lit.
World, June 4, 1881. Pub. Har. Por. Rou.
Edwardes, Mrs. Annie. 18-
Novelist. Susan
Fielding, Ought We to Visit Her? and Archie
Lovell are among the best of her excellent novels.
Pub. Sh.
Edwards, Matilda Betham. 1836
Novelist.
Cousin to A. B. E. Author Doctor Jacob, Kitty,
etc. Style clear and picturesque. Pub. Har. Lip.
Rob.
Handbook of English Authors.
43
Edwards, Richard.
1523-1566. Poet. Principal
author of the famous poetical collection of his day,
The Paradise of Dainty Devices.
Eliot, George. See Evans, Marian.
Ellicott, Chas. John. 1819
Bp. Gloucester
and Bristol. Theologian. Author The New Tes-
tament Commentary, Historical Lect. on the Life
of Christ, etc. Pub. Arm. Dra. Dut.
Elliott, Ebenezer. 1781-1849. Poet. Known as
the Corn-Law Rhymer. His verse is earnest and
ardent, and shows much feeling. See Life of, by
Searle. See Eng. edition, 1876.
Ellis, George. 1745-1815. Antiquarian of note.
Best known by his valuable work, Specimens of
Early Eng. Poets.
Ellis, Sir Henry. 1777-1869. Antiquarian writer.
Ellis, Mrs. Sarah [Stickney]. 1812-1872. Author
Women of England, Daughters of England, Wives
of England, Mothers of England, etc.
Ellwood, Thos. 1639-1713. Poet. Author of a dull
poem entitled The Davideis.
Elphinstone [ěl'fin-ston], James. 1721-1809. Scotch
grammarian.
Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1779-1859. Historical
writer. Author Hist. of India, etc.
Elyot [ěl'i-ot], Sir Thos. c. 1495-1546. Moralist.
Author Defence of Good Women, etc.
Emerson-Tennent, Sir James. 1804-1869. Histor-
ical writer.
Erskine, Thos. 1750-1823. Jurist. See Select
Speeches, with Memoir by Walford, 2 vols., 8vo,
London, 1870
Etheridge, Sir George. 1636-1694. Comic drama-
tist. Author of The Comical Revenge, She Would
if She Could, etc. Style sprightly and witty. See
Living Age, Apr. 30, 1881.
44
Handbook of English Authors.
Evans, Marian, "George Eliot." 1819-1880.
Nov-
elist and poet. A complete list of her works com-
prises translations of Strauss's Life of Jesus and
Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity; the novels,
Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Mill on the
Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middle-
march, and Daniel Deronda; the long poems, Span-
ish Gypsy, Agatha, Legend of Jubal, and How
Lisa Loved the King, with a few short ones; and a
vol. of essays, entitled Impressions of Theophrastus
Such. The strength of her novels lies in their won-
derful delineations of character, their subtle analy-
sis of motive as acted on by circumstance, and the
lofty wisdom that infuses the whole. They awaken
the best impulses of humanity, and appeal to all
the finer sympathies. Her style is strongly marked,
often picturesque, and her descriptions clear and
distinct. Her poems, though containing many beau-
tiful passages, do not, with one or two exceptions,
take a high rank. The best one is probably the
famous O May I Join the Choir Invisible. See
George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind; Hutton's Es-
says; Cent. Mag., Nov., 1881; Eclectic Mag.,
April, 1881; Lit. World, Feb. 24, 1883; and
Galaxy Mag., June, 1869.
Evelyn, John. 1620-1706. Agricultural writer. Au-
thor of Sylva Terra and a famous Diary, which
accurately reflects the manners of his time. See
Diary and Letters of, edited by John Forster, 1857.
See London edition, 1875.
Faber Frederick William. 1815-1863. Religious
poet. Author of a number of beautiful and popu-
lar Hymns. Pub. Dut. Mur. Wh. Rou.
Faber, George Stanley. 1773-1854. Theologian.
Handbook of English Authors.
45
Author of The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy, etc.
Style clear and exact.
Fabyan, Robert. c. 1456-1512. Chronicler. Wrote
a Concordance of Histories, which begins with
Brutus and ends with his own time.
Fairfax, Edward. c. 1580-1632. Poet. Author of a
fine translation of Tasso. See Am. edition, 1855,
I2m0.
Falconer [fawk'ner], Wm. 1730-1769. Scotch poet.
Author of The Shipwreck, a poem of consider-
able beauty, and a Marine Dict. See Campbell's
Specimens of the Eng. Poets. Pub. Hou.
Fanshawe, Sir Richard. 1608-1666. Poet. Trans-
lator of Camoens's Lusiad, and author of some
graceful poems.
Faraday, Michael. 1791-1867. Chemist. Author
of numerous scientific works, The Chemistry of a
Candle, Physical Forces, etc. See Life and Letters
of, 1870, by F. Bruce Jones, Tyndall's Faraday as
a Discoverer, and Life, by J. H. Gladstone. Pub.
Har. Rou.
Novelist.
Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold. 1833
Joshua Marvel, Grif, Blade-o'-Grass, London's
Heart, and Bells of Penraven are among his best
works. Style akin to that of Dickens. Pub. Har.
Farmer, Richard. 1735 1797. Shakespearean
scholar. Author Essay on the Learning of Shake-
speare.
Farquhar [far'kwar or far'kär], George. 1678-1707.
Irish dramatist. A writer of brilliant, sparkling
comedies, full of good feeling. The Beaux' Strata-
gem and The Recruiting Officer are the best. See
his comedies edited by Leigh Hunt. See Atlantic
Monthly, March, 1882.
Farrar, Frederic Wm. 1831
Theologian.
46
Handbook of English Authors.
Author Life of Christ, Eternal Hope, Life and
Epistles of St. Paul, Seekers after God, etc. Of
several stories by him, St. Winifred's is perhaps
the best. Pub. Cas. Dut. Fu. Lip. Mac.
Fawcett, Henry. 1833-1884. Writer on Political
Economy. Author Free Trade and Protection,
Pauperism its Causes and Remedies, Manual of
Political Economy, etc. Pub. Mac.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. 1847
Wife to
H. F. Author Tales in Political Economy, Polit-
ical Economy for Beginners, etc. Pub. Mac.
Feltham, Owen,
c. 1608-1677. Essayist. Author
Divine and Moral Resolves. Style pointed and sen-
tentious.
Fenton, Elijah. 1683-1730. Poet. Assisted Pope
in translating the Odyssey. His original verse is
not unmusical.
Ferguson, Adam. 1724-1816. Scotch historian
and philosopher. Author Hist. of Civil Society,
Hist. Progress and Termination of Roman Em-
pire, etc. Style clear and scholarly.
Ferguson, James. 1710-1776. Scotch philosophical
and mathematical writer.
Fergusson, James.
ral writer of note.
Pub. Lit. Do.
1808
Scotch architectu-
Author Hist. of Architecture.
Scotch poet. Au-
Fergusson, Robert. 1750-1774.
thor of The Farmer's Ingle, etc. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
Ferrar, Nicholas. 1592-1637. Religious writer.
See Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1871.
Ferrier, James Frederick. 1808-1864. Metaphysi-
cian. His Institutes of Metaphysics is a work of
much learning and acuteness.
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone. 1782-1854. Scotch
Handbook of English Authors.
47
Author of Marriage,
novelist. Aunt to J. F.
The Inheritance, and Destiny. Her works show
much humor and are piquant in style. See Eng.
edition 1841. See Temple Bar, Nov., 1878, and
London Lit. World, March 31, 1882. Pub. Har.
Rou.
Fielding, Henry. 1707-1754. Novelist. With Rich-
ardson he founded a new school of fiction, distin-
guished by a careful study of character and a more
truthful drawing of human nature than what had
preceded. Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and Tom
Jones, though stamped with the coarseness of his
age, will continue to be read for their originality,
wit, and acute reflections. See Thackeray's Eng.
Humorists, Masson's Novelists and their Styles,
and Dobson's Fielding in Eng. Men of Letters.
Pub. Har. Lit. Rou.
Finlay, George. 1800-1875. Scotch historian. Au-
thor Hist. Greece under the Romans, Hist. By-
zantine and Greek Empires, Hist. Greece under
Ottoman and Venetian Dominion, and Hist. of the
Greek Revolution. A standard authority. · Pub.
Mac.
Fisher, Edward. 1620-1660. Welsh theologian.
Author of a noted controversial work called The
Marrow of Modern Divinity.
Fitzgerald, Edward. 1808-1883. Translator of
note. Author of scholarly translations of Omar
Khayyam, Calderon, and Eschylus.
Fitzgerald, Percy. 1834 - Novelist and littéra-
teur. Author Romance of the English Stage, etc.
Fitzgerald, Wm. 1814-1883. Bp. Killaloe. The-
ologian. Author Holy Scripture the Ultimate Rule
of Faith, Life of Butler, etc.
Flamsteed, John. 1646-1719. Astronomical writer.
48
Handbook of English Authors.
Fletcher, Andrew [of Saltoun]. 1653-1716. Po-
litical writer. See Erskine's Life of, 1792.
Fletcher, Giles. 1588-1623. Poet.
Poet. Bro. to P. F.
and cousin to J. F. Author Christ's Victory and
Triumph, a long poem in 8-line stanzas. See Works
edited by Grosart, 1876. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 2.
Fletcher, John. 1576-1625. Dramatist. Colleague
of Beaumont. Among plays attributed solely to F.
are Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Beggar's Bush,
and the exquisite pastoral drama The Faithful
Shepherdess. He wrote, also, portions of Shake-
speare's Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII.,
perhaps his finest effort being the famous Wolsey
Soliloquy in the latter. See Beaumont, F. See
Dyce's edition, 1843. See Lamb's Specimens of the
Dramatic Poets, Schlegel's Dramatic Lit., and
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Fletcher, Mrs. Maria Jane [Jewsbury]. 1800-1833.
Poet and miscellaneous writer.
Fletcher, Phineas. 1584-1650. Poet. Bro. to G. F.
and cousin to J. F. F. wrote a long and curi-
ous allegorical and anatomical poem, The Purple
Island. The subject, fantastically and minutely
treated, is the human body. See Southey's Early
Eng. Poets.
Florio, John.
1545-1625. Grammarian.
Fonblanque [fŏn-blǎnk'], Albany. 1797-1872.
Journalist. Author England under Seven Admin-
istrations. See Life and Labors of, 1874.
Foote, Samuel. 1721-1777. Comic dramatist. The
Liar and one or two other farces of his still keep
the stage. See Foster's Essays and Life by Coke,
1805.
Forbes, Alexander Penrose. 1817-1875. Bp. Brech-
Handbook of English Authors.
49
in. Theologian. Author Explanation of the Thirty-
Nine Articles, etc. See Memoir, 1876. Pub. Dut.
Forbes, Archibald. 1838
Scotch journal-
ist. Author Soldiering and Scribbling, Glimpses
through the Cannon Smoke, etc.
Pub. Os. Rou.
Forbes, James David. 1809-1868. Scientist. Author
Theory of Glaciers, etc. See Life and Letters of,
by John C. Shairp, 1873.
Ford, John. 1586-1639. Dramatist. His plays all
deal with unhappy love, and are powerful though
morbid. The Broken Heart, his best work, is a
masterpiece of pathos. His style possesses great
beauty. See Moxon's edition Old Eng. Dramatists,
and Swinburne's Essays and Studies.
Forrester, Mrs. 18-
Novelist. Author
Pub. Lip.
Dolores, Diana Carew, Mignon, etc.
Forster, John. 1812-1876. Essayist and biogra-
pher. Author lives of Dikens, Goldsmith, Lan-
dor, Swift, Statesmen of the Commonwealth of
Eng., etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Lip.
Fortescue, Sir John.
c. 1395-1485. Legal writer.
De Laudibus Legum Angliæ.
Foster, John. 1770-1843. Essayist. His style has
both vigor and beauty. Pub. Ca.
Fothergill, Jessie. 18-
Novelist. Author
The First Violin, Kith and Kin, One of Three, etc.
Pub. Ho.
Fox, Chas. James. 1749-1806. Orator and histo-
rian. See edition of his Speeches, ó vols., London,
1815, and Life, by Geo. O. Trevelyan.
Fox, George. 1624-1690. Theological writer.
Founder of the Society of Friends.
S. M. Fanney.
See Life, by
Fox, John. 1517-1587. Martyrologist. Author of
the famous Book of Martyrs. Pub. Cas. Clx.
4
50
Handbook of English Authors.
Francillon, Robert Edward. 1841
Novelist.
Author Under Slieve Ban, Rare Good Luck, Queen
Cophetua, etc. Pub. Apl. Ho.
Francis, Sir Philip. 1740-1818. Political writer.
Supposed author of the famous Junius Letters, a
series of powerful political tracts. See Junius,
Johnson's Cyc. Pub. Rou.
Fraser, James Baillie. 1783-1856. Novelist and
traveller. Author of The Kuzzilbash, Hist. Per-
sia, etc. See Chambers Cyc. Eng. Lit., vol. 2.
Freeman, Edward Augustus. 1823
Histo-
rian. Author Hist. Norman Conquest, Wm. Rufus
and Henry First, Hist. Architecture, Unity of Hist.,
etc. An eminently thorough, accurate writer, whose
Norman Conquest is one of the most important of
English histories. Style animated and scholarly.
Pub. Ho. Mac.
Fremantle, Wm. Henry.
1831
Theologian.
Author The Gospel of the Secular Life, Bampton
Lect. 1883, etc. Pub. Scr.
Freer, Martha Walker. 1822
Historian. Au-
thor Life of Marguerite of Navarre, Life of Henry
III. of France, etc.
Frere [freer], John Hookham. 1769-1846. Poet.
A writer of merit in translation and in original
verse. See Eng. edition of, 2 vols., London, 1872.
Friswell, James Hain. 1827-1878. Essayist. Au-
thor Familiar Words, The Gentle Life, Francis
Spira and other Poems, etc. Pub. Por.
Froude [frood], James Anthony. 1818
His-
torian and essayist. Author Hist. of England, The
English in Ireland, Short Studies on Great Sub-
jects, The Nemesis of Faith, etc. His historical
portraits are brilliant and his historical grouping
dramatic, but his judgments of men and motives
Handbook of English Authors.
51
are open to criticism. All his works show great
labor and research. Pub. Har. Scr.
Froude, Richard Hurrel. 1803-1836. Bro. to
J. A. F. Religious writer. See Remains of, 4
vols., London, 1838.
Fuller, Thomas. 1608-1661. Historian and biog-
rapher Author Ch. Hist., Hist. of Worthies of
England, Sermons, Holy State, etc. A quaint,
humorous, original writer of great eminence in his
own day and still read with pleasure. See Life, by
Russell, 1844. Pub. Dut. Mac.
Fullerton, Lady Georgiana. 1812-1885. Novelist.
Grantley Manor, Constance Sherwood, Too Strange
Not to be True, and Lady Bird, are some of her
works. Pub. Apl. Cath. Pi. Sad.
Furnivall, Fred'k James. 1825-
Shakespearean
scholar. Editor of the Leopold Shakespeare.
Fyffe, Chas. Alan. 1845
Historian. Author
Modern Europe, Hist. Greece in Appleton's Hist.
Primers, etc. Pub. Apl. Ho.
Gale, Theophilus.
1628-1678. Theologian. Au-
thor of The Court of the Gentiles.
Galt, John. 1779-1839. Scotch novelist. Author
Annals of the Parish, Ayrshire Legatees, Life Lord
Byron, etc. A prolific writer who has carefully
drawn Scotch provincial and peasant life. See Au-
tobiography, 1834. Pub. Har.
Gardiner, Sam'l Rawson. 1829
Historian.
Author of The 30 Years' War, 1618-1648. Eng.
Hist. for Students, etc. Pub. Ho.
Garrett, Edward. See Mayo, Mrs. Isabella.
Garrick, David. 1716-1779. Dramatist. Author
Lying Valet, Miss in her Teens, etc. See Life, by
Percy Fitzgerald, 1872.
52
Handbook of English Authors.
Garth, Samuel. 1672-1719. Poet and physician.
His mock epic, The Dispensary, is a feeble work.
Sce Ward's English Poets, vol. 3.
Gascoigne, Mrs. Caroline Leigh. 1813
Novel-
ist and poet. Author Doctor Harold, etc.
Gascoigne, George. 1530-1577. Poet. The Steel
Glass his chief work. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. I.
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn. 1810-1865.
Novelist and biographer. Author of Ruth, Sylvia's
Lovers, Wives and Daughters, Mary Barton, etc.
Her books are earnest and well written; Cranford,
in fact, is almost a classic work, and her Life of
Charlotte Brontë is a much-admired biography. See
Lit. World, July 1, 1882. Pub. Apl. Har.
Gast, John. 1715-1788. Irish historian.
Gatty, Alfred. 1813. Author The Vicar and
His Duties, Study of In Memoriam, etc.
Gatty, Mrs. Margaret. 1809-1873. Wife to A. G.
Author Parables from Nature, The Fairy God-
mother, Proverbs Illustrated, Aunt Judy's Tales,
etc. Pub. Ca. Put.
Gauden, John. 1605-1664. Bp. Worcester. His
Ikōn Basilikē professed to be the work of Charles
I., of whose sufferings it was an account, and its
true authorship has occasioned much controversy.
Gay, John.
1688-1732. Poet and dramatist. G.
wrote The Beggar's Opera, a famous musical drama,
and numerous other works. See edition of his
Poems, London, 1806. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 3, and Gay's Fables edited by Austin Dobson.
Pub. Apl.
Gell [jěl], Sir Wm. 1777-1836. Archæologist.
Author Topography of Rome, etc.
Geoffrey [jef'ri] of Dunstable.
1146. Author
Handbook of English Authors.
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of a miracle play of St. Catherine [1110], usually
considered the first dramatic work in any modern
language.
Geoffrey of Monmouth. C. 1100-1154. Bp. St.
Asaph, Anglo-Saxon Chronicler.
Gibbon, Edward. 1737-1794. Historian. Author
of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; a
masterly work, artistically conceived and carried
out, with great research and careful detail. See
Milman's edition, 1845. See Autobiography edited
by Milman, 1839. Pub. Har. Por.
Gifford, Wm.
1757-1826. Critic and reviewer. G.
wrote the Baviad and Mæviad, two sharp literary
satires, and as editor of the Quarterly Review was
author of many bitter, satirical reviews. See Haz-
litt's Spirit of the Age.
Gilbert, Wm.
1540-1603. Philosophical writer.
Author De Magnete.
Gilbert, Wm.
18-
Novelist. Author De
Profundis, etc.
Gilbert, Wm. Schewenck. 1836
Dramatist
and humorous poet; son to preceding. Author
of The Bab Ballads, Original Plays, and of the
librettos of Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, The
Sorcerer, Patience, Iolanthe, etc. See Scribner's
Mag., Sept. 1879. Pub. Por. Rou. Scr.
Gilchrist, Alexander. 1827-1861. Biographer
and art writer. Author lives of Blake and Etty.
Gildas. fl. c. 510. Anglo-Latin Chronicler.
Stevenson's edition, London, 1838.
See
Gilfillan, George. 1813-1878. Scotch miscellane-
ous writer. Author Gallery of Literary Portraits,
Life of Walter Scott, Bards of the Bible, etc.
Pub. Har.
Gilfillan, Robert. c. 1798-1850. Scotch poet.
54
Handbook of English Authors.
Gillies, John. 1747-1836. Scotch historian.
thor Hist. Ancient Greece, etc.
Au-
Gilpin, John. 1724-1804. Critic and biographer.
Author Life of Bernard Gilpin, etc.
Giraldus, Cambrensis. 1147-1216. Welsh histo-
rian and poet.
Girdlestone, Chas. 1797-1881. Religious writer.
Author Concordance to the Prayer-Book, etc.
Gladstone, Wm. Ewart.
1809
Statesman
and essayist. Author of Juventus Mundi, Homeric
Studies, The Vatican Decrees, etc. Style polished
and able. See Sketch of, by H. W. Lucy, Short
Life of, by C. H. Jones, and Life, by Geo. Barnett
Smith. Also Harper's Mag., April, 1882. Pub.
Apl. Har. Scr.
Gloucester [glos-ter], Robert of. fl. c. 1280. Rhym-
ing chronicler.
Glover, Richard.
1712-1785.
Poet.
Leonidas, an epic, Hosier's Ghost, etc.
Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
Author of
See Ward's
Godwin, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft. 1759-1797.
Wife to W. G. Author Vindication of the Rights
of Women, etc. Style bold and able. See Atlan-
tic Monthly, Dec. 1880.
Godwin, Wm.
1756-1836.
Philosopher and novel-
ist. Author Caleb Williams, St. Leon, Cloudesly,
Answer to Malthus, Political Justice, etc. See Life,
by Kegan Paul, 1876, and Leslie Stephen's Hours
in a Library. Pub. Har.
Goldsmith, Oliver. 1728-1774. Irish poet and nov-
elist. A writer of great delicacy and purity of sen-
timent, possessing a simple, delightful style. His
poems, The Deserted Village and The Traveller,
are charming pieces of description; his comedies,
The Good-Natured Man and She Stoops to Con-
huc acove
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quer, are bright and sparkling, the latter being
perennially fresh; and his novel, The Vicar of
Wakefield, is an Eng. classic. See Lives, by Prior,
Forster, W. Irving, and Goldsmith by Wm. Black
in Eng. Men of Letters.
See Select Poems of,
edited by W.J. Rolfe. Pub. Clx. Har.
Good, John Mason.
miscellaneous writer.
1764-1827. Physician and
Author Study of Medicine,
The Book of Nature, Medical Technology, etc.
Pub. Har.
Gordon, George, Lord Byron. 1788-1824. Childe
Harold, Prisoner of Chillon, and Don Juan are his
finest poems. A writer of great power and strong
personality, whose talent was warped by license and
self-will. Don Juan, his most brilliant poem, sins
deeply against morality. Manfred, The Giaour, and
Lara are striking poems. See Lives by Galt, Moore,
E. Brydges, Lake, and Elze; also, Byron, by Nich-
ols, in Eng. Men of Letters, and the Real Lord
Byron by J. C. Jeaffreson. See Quarterly Rev., July,
1868, and prefaces to respective editions by Wm.
Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne.
Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace. 1799-1861. Novelist.
A prolific writer of society tales. Author of The
Cabinet Minister, The Royal Favorite, etc. Pub.
Har.
Gosse, Edmund Wm. 1849-
Poet and critic.
Son to P. H. G. Author of Viol and Flute, King
Erik, New Poems, Gray in Eng. Men of Letters,
etc. A lyrist of much merit. See Harper's Mag
May, 1882, "Some London Poets." Pub. Har. Ho.
Gosse, Philip Henry. 1810
Zoölogist. Au-
thor Romance of Natural Hist., Marine Zoölogy,
Evenings with the Microscope, etc. Pub. Apl.
A. T. S. Lip.
56
Handbook of English Authors.
Goulbourn, Edward Meyrick.
1818
Relig-
ious writer. Author Thoughts on Personal Religion,
The Holy Catholic Ch., Pursuit of Holiness, etc.
Pub. Apl.
Gould, Baring. See Baring-Gould.
Gower, John. 1350-1402. Poet. G. wrote the
Speculum Meditantis, in French, Vox Clematis, in
Latin, and Confessio Amantis in Eng. See edition,
3 vols. 8vo, London, 1857. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 1; also Rolfe's edition of Pericles.
Græme [grām], John. 1748-1772. Scotch poet.
Graham, Ennis. See Molesworth, Mrs.
Grahame, James. 1765-1811. Scotch poet. Au-
thor of The Sabbath, etc.
Grahame, James, Marquis of Montrose. 1612-
1650. Lyric poet. Author of the famous lyric My
Dear and Only Love. See Biographies by Napier,
1856, and Grant, 1858.
Grahame, James. 1790-1842. Scotch historian.
Author Hist. U. S., etc. Style dignified and impar-
tial.
Granger, James. 1716-1766. Historian. Author
Biographical Hist. of England.
Grant, Mrs. Anne [of Laggan]. 1755-1838. Scotch
poet and miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs
of an American Lady [1808], etc. See Memoirs
and Correspondence of, 3 vols., 1844. Pub. Mu.
Grant, James. 1806-1879. Journalist. Author of
The Bench and the Bar, Sketches in London, etc.
Grant, James. 1822
Scotch novelist. Author
Hist. of India, and a long
not take a very high rank.
<
list of novels which do
Pub. Cas. Rou.
Grattan, Thos. Colley. 1796-1864. Irish novelist
and poet. Author Highways and Byways, Hist. of
the Netherlands, etc. Pub. Har.
Handbook of English Authors.
57
Gray, David. 1838-1861. Scotch poet. Author of
The Luggie, etc. See H. G. Bell's edition, 1874.
See R. Buchanan's David Gray and Other Essays,
1868.
Gray, Thomas. 1716-1771. Poet. Author of The
Bard, Progress of Poesy, Elegy in a Country
Churchyard, etc. A writer of much refinement of
expression and quiet sentiment. The calm beauty
of the Elegy has made it one of the most popular
of Eng. poems. See Gray, by E. W. Gosse, in Eng.
Men of Letters, Mason's Biog., 1778, and Selected
Poems of, edited by W. J. Rolfe.
Green, John Richard. 1837-1883. Historian. Au-
thor Short Hist. of the Eng. People, The Making
of England, Stray Studies, Hist. of the Eng. Peo-
ple, etc. A picturesque, accurate writer, with
great originality and clearness of style. See N. Y.
Nation, March 29, 1883, Contemporary Rev., May,
1883, Journal of Education, June, 1883, British
Quarterly Rev., July, 1883, and Fortnightly Rev.,
May, 1883. Pub. Apl. Har. Mac.
Green, Matthew. 1696-1737. Poet. The author
of a curious reflective poem called The Spleen. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
Greene, Robert. 1560-1592. Dramatist. A pro-
lific writer of humorous plays, but now best known
by his confession entitled Greene's Groat's Worth
of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
Greenwell, Dora. 1821-1882. Poet and miscella-
neous writer. Author Stories That Might be True,
The Patience of Hope, John Woolman, Camera
Obscura, A Present Heaven, etc. Pub. Dut.
Greg, Wm. Rathbone. 1812-1881. Essayist. Au-
thor of Rocks Ahead, Enigmas of Life, Literary
58
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and Social Judgments, Creed of Christendom, etc.,
works of a thoughtful, pessimistic cast. See
Macmillan's Mag., June, 1883. Pub. Ho.
Grenville, George, Lord Nugent. 1788-1850. Au-
thor Memorials of Hampden, Lands Classical and
Lay, etc.
Greville, Sir Fulke, Lord Brooke. 1554-1628.
Poet and philosopher. Author Life of Sydney, etc.
See Grosart's edition of, 1870. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 1.
Griffin, Gerald. 1803-1840. Irish poet and novelist.
Author of The Collegians, etc. See complete Eng.
edition by Griffin, 1857. Pub. Rou. Sad.
Grindon, Leopold Hartley. 1818
Author
Life its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena, The
Shakespeare Flora, etc.
Pub. Lip.
Grosseteste [grōs-test], Robert. c. 1175-1253. Bp.
London. Anglo-Norman poet.
Grote, George. 1794-1871. Historian. Best known
by his Hist. of Greece, a standard work. See Life,
by Mrs. Grote, 1873. Pub. Har. Lit.
Grove, George. 1820
Musical critic. Author
Dict. of Music and Musicians, etc. Pub. Mac.
Guest, Lady Charlotte. See Schreiber, Lady Char-
lotte.
Gunter, Edmund. 1581-1626. Mathematical writer.
Inventor of the terms co-sine, co-tangent, etc. The
phrase "according to Gunter" arose from his scale
of measurement being the standard one.
Gurney, Joseph John. 1788-1847. Philanthropist.
Author Notes on Prison Discipline, and numerous
religious works. Pub. Lip.
Guthrie [guth'ri], Thomas. 1803-1873. Scotch
philanthropist. Author Plea for Ragged Schools,
Man and the Gospel, Out of Harness, etc. See
Life, 1873. Pub. Ca.
Handbook of English Authors.
59
Guthrie, Wm. 1708-1770. Scotch historian.
Au-
thor Hist. of England, Hist. of Scotland, etc. His
works have been entirely superseded by later au-
thorities.
Habington, Wm. 1605-1654. Poet. An ingenious
writer of love poems. See Eng. edition by Arber,
1870. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Hailes, Lord. See Dalrymple, Sir D.
Hakluyt [hǎk'loot], Richard. 1553-1616. Chroni-
cler and geographer. Hakluyt's Voyages is an im-
portant collection of narratives of earlier or contem-
porary voyages. See edition of, 5 vols. 4to, Lon-
don, 1809-12.
Hale, Sir Matthew. 1609-1676. Moral and relig-
ious writer. See Life by Burnet in Wordsworth's
Ecclesiastical Biog.
Hales, John. 1584-1656. Polemical writer.
Styled
"The Ever Memorable." Chiefly noted for his
Golden Remains. See Life by Des Maizeaux.
Hales, Stephen. 1677-1761. One of the earliest
writers on vegetable physiology.
Hales, Wm.
1769-1831. Irish theologian.
Haliburton, Thos. Chandler. 1796-1865.
Nova
Scotian humorist. Author Sam Slick, etc. Pub.
Di. Har. Hou. Rou.
Halifax, Earl of. See Montagu, Chas.
Halifax, Marquess. See Saville, George.
Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria. 1805-1881.
Wife to
S. C. H. Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Author Sketches of Irish Character, The Outlaw,
The Whiteboy, etc. Pub. Har.
Hall, Basil. 1788-1844. Scotch writer of travels.
Hall, Edward.
1547. Chronicler. A minute
and valuable writer.
6.0
Handbook of English Authors.
Hall, Joseph. 1574-1656. Bp. Norwich. Theolo-
gian and satirist. Sometimes styled the founder of
Eng. satire. A vivacious and excellent writer. See
edition 1837. See Hannay's Satire and Satirists,
and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. I.
Hall, Newman, 1816
Congregationalist re-
ligious writer. Author Come to Jesus, The Forum
and the Vatican, etc. Pub. Phi. Sh.
Hall, Robert. 1764-1831. Baptist religious writer.
Author Sermons on Modern Infidelity, Reflections
on War, etc. Style scholarly, eloquent, and re-
fined. See Works of, with Memoir, by O. Gregory,
6 vols., London; also, Biog. by J. W. Morris,
1846, and Life by Paxton Hood.
Hall, Samuel Carter. 1801
Miscellaneous
writer. Author The Stately Homes of England,
Book of Memories, Retrospect of a Long Life, etc.
Pub. Apl.
Hallam, Arthur Henry. 1811-1833. Poet and es-
sayist. Son to H. H. A young writer whose loss
inspired Tennyson's In Memoriam. See Remains,
with Life, by his father, 1834; Remains in Verse
and Prose, 1862. See Life, by Dr. John Brown;
also, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1860.
Hallam, Henry. 1777-1859. Historian and critic.
Author Hist. Middle Ages, Constitutional Hist.
England, Lit. of Europe, etc. An impartial writer
whose works are of great value, but whose style
lacks animation and freshness. See H. Marti-
neau's Biographical Sketches. Pub. Arm. Har.
Lit.
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard. 1820
Shakespearean scholar. Editor of Shakespeare,
16 vols. folio, 1865. Author Dict. Archaic Words,
Life of Shakespeare, Last Days of Shakespeare,
etc.
Handbook of English Authors.
61
Hamerton [hăm'er-ton], Philip Gilbert. 1834
Art Critic. Author Thoughts on Art, A Painter's
Camp, The Unknown River, The Intellectual Life,
etc. A writer of authority in his department. Style
graceful and refined. Pub. Mac. Rob.
Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth. 1758-1816.
Scotch
writer. Best known by her Letters of a Hindoo
Rajah and The Cottagers of Glenburnie. See Cham-
bers' Cyc. Eng. Lit.
Hamilton, Sir Wm. 1788-1856. Scotch metaphy-
sician. Author Discussions on Philosophy, etc.
His clear, dignified style is much admired. Pub.
Apl.
Hannay, James. 1827-1873. Novelist and miscella-
neous writer. Author Singleton Fontenoy, Studies
on Thackeray, etc. Pub. Har. Rou.
Hardy, Thomas.
Novelist. Author
Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the
Native, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Two on a Tower,
etc. A novelist of high rank. His character-draw-
ing is sharp and incisive, his studies of peasant life
truthful and sympathetic, and his descriptive pas-
sages masterly. Pub. Ho.
1840
Hare, Augustus Julius Charles. 1834
Neph.
to J. C. H. and A. W. H. Author Walks in Lon-
don, Walks in Rome, Days Near Rome, Memorials
of a Quiet Life, etc. Pub. Por. Ran. Rou.
Hare, Augustus Wm. 1793-1834. Author Alton
Sermons, etc. Pub. Ran. Rou.
Hare, Francis. 1688-1740. Bp. Chichester. Con-
troversial writer.
Hare, Julius Chas. 1796-1855. Bro. to A. W. H.,
and with him author of Guesses at Truth. Author
Life of Sterling, Victory of Faith, etc. Pub. Dut.
Mac.
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Harrington, James. 1611-1677. Political philoso-
pher. Author of The Oceana.
Harrington, John.
nah's Courtly Poets.
1534-1582. Poet. See Han-
Harrington, Sir John. 1561-1612. Poet. Son to
preceding. First English translator of Ariosto.
Harrison, Frederic. 1831
Positivist and
philosopher. Author Order and Progress, The
Meaning of History, etc., and translator of Comte's
Social Statics.
Hartley, David.
1705-1757. Philosopher. Obser-
vations on Man his chief work.
Harvey, Gabriel. 1545-1637. Poet. One of the
first to write English hexameter.
Harvey, Wm.
1578-1657. Physician. Discoverer
of the circulation of the blood. See Works of,
edited by the Sydenham Society, London, 1847.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. 1836-1879. Author of
much devotional verse. Pub. Dut. Ran.
Haweis [hoys], Hugh Reginald.
1838
Re-
ligious and miscellaneous writer. Author Thoughts
for the Times, Speech in Season, Current Coin,
Arrows in the Air, Poets in the Pulpit, Unsectarian
Family Prayer, Music and Morals, Pet, or Pastimes
and Penalties, Ashes to Ashes, and My Musical
Life. Pub. Har. Ho. Fu.
Haweis, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Joy]. 1852.
Wife
to H. R. H. Author Chaucer for Children, Chau-
cer for Schools, Chaucer's Beads, The Art of
Beauty, The Art of Dress, The Art of Decoration,
and Beautiful Houses. The illustrations and cover
designs of her own and her husband's works are
by Mrs. Haweis. Pub. Har.
Hay, Mary Cecil. 1844
Novelist. Author of
Old Myddleton's Money, The Arundel Motto, The
Squire's Legacy, etc. Pub. Har.
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Hayley, Wm.
1745-1820. Poet. Of mediocre
ability, but once very popular. Author Life Wm.
Cowper, etc. See Autobiography, 1823.
Hayward, Mrs. Eliza. 1693-1756. Author of The
New Utopia, The Female Spectator, etc. A volu-
minous writer of miscellaneous works of slight
merit.
Hazlitt, Wm. 1778-1830. Critical essayist. Au-
thor Table-Talk, Lect. on Shakespeare, Lect. on
the Eng. Poets, etc. His criticisms on art and the
drama are of high order. His style is picturesque
and his imagination rich, but his works are some-
times deficient in moderation and judgment. See
Life of, by his grandson, 1867. Pub. Lip.
Hazlitt, Wm. Carew. 1843
Grandson to W.
H. Littérateur. Author Hist. Venetian Republic,
Memoirs Wm. Hazlitt, Handbook to Early Eng.
Lit. etc.
·
Head, Sir Francis Bond. 1793-1875. Miscellane-
ous writer. Among his numerous works Bubbles
from the Brunnen of Nassau is one of the best
known. Pub. Har.
Heber, Reginald. 1783–1826. Poet. Bp. Calcutta.
A talented writer, best known by his hymns, viz.:
The Missionary Hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, and
Epiphany. See Life, by Mrs. Heber, 1830. Last
Days of Heber, by Robinson, and Memoirs by Pot-
ter and Taylor.
Hector, Mrs. Annie Alexander. "Mrs. Alexan-
der." 1825
Irish novelist. Author of The
Wooing O't, Her Dearest Foe, The Freres, The
Admiral's Ward, Which Shall It Be, etc. Style
fresh, healthful, and pleasing. Pub. Ho.
Helps, Sir Arthur. 1818-1875. Historian and es-
sayist. Author Hist. of the Spanish Conquest in
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America, Realmah, Casimir Maremma, etc. His
style is quiet and graceful, and Friends in Council,
his best work, is strong and helpful. Pub. Har.
Rob. Rou.
Hemans [hèm'anz], Mrs. Felicia Dorothea. 1793-
1835. Poet. Without possessing great force some
of her poems have yet taken a firm hold upon
popular sympathies. Casabianca, Graves of a
Household, and The Pilgrim Fathers are examples.
Her verse is graceful and sweet, but not strong.
See Memorials of, by H. F. Chorley, 1836. Pub.
Lip. Por. Rou.
Henry VIII. 1491-1547. Author of controversial,
anti-Lutheran treatises. See Brewer's edition of,
1862.
Henry, Matthew.
1662-1714. Theologian. Au-
thor of a noted Exposition of the Bible, of which
the best edition is that of London, 1869. See Lives
by Tony and Williams. Pub. Ca.
Henry, Robert. 1718-1790. Scotch historian.
His
Hist. of Gt. Britain was the first to take account of
manners and the state of society from a purely his-
torical basis.
Henryson, Robert. fl. c. 1490. Scotch poet. H.
wrote the beautiful pastoral of Robin and Makyne,
found in Percy's Reliques. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. I.
Herbert, Lord Edward. 1581-1648. Historian and
theologian. His De Veritate is a plea for Deism.
Style dignified and able. See Autobiography,
edited by W. D. Howells. Pub. Hou. See Lord
Herbert de Cherbury by Chas. de Rémusat, Paris,
1874.
Herbert, George. 1593-1632. Religious poet. Bro.
to preceding. Author of The Temple. His verse
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is elevated in tone, but marred by quaint and fan-
tastic conceits. See Lives, by Walton, 1670, and
Duyckinck, 1858. See Grosart's edition, with
Memoir, 1875.
Herbert, Wm. 1778-1847. Poet. Author of some
spirited translations from the Norse and other
tongues, and of some excellent original poems.
Herrick, Robert. 1591-1674. Poet. Author of
Hesperides, etc. A skillful lyrist whose airy grace-
fulness will always continue to delight. See Gro-
sart's complete edition of, 1877; also, Abbey's Illus-
trated Selections from, 1882. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 2, and Temple Bar, May, 1883.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia. 1750-1840. Astron-
omer. Author Catalogue of Stars. See Life and
Correspondence of, 1876. Pub. Apl.
Herschel, Sir John Frederick Wm. 1792-1871.
Astronomer. Neph. to C. L. H. Author Study
of Nat. Philosophy, Outlines of Astronomy, Phys-
ical Geography, etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Rou.
Hervey, Lord John. 1696-1743. Author Memoirs
Reign of George II. See edition of, 1848, with
Life by J. W. Croker.
Hervey, James.
1714-1758.
Meditations, etc. Pub. Ca.
Heylin, Peter.
most noted work.
1600-1662.
Moralist.
Author
Microcosmus is his
1535-1598. Son to J. H. Au-
Heywood, Jasper.
thor of rhymed translations of Seneca.
Heywood, John. 1506-1565. Dramatist. Writer
of grotesque Interludes.
Heywood, Thomas.
1640. Dramatist. Was
a frequent colleague of other dramatists, and a
writer of much talent, with a tender, graceful style.
See complete edition of, London, 1874, 6 vols.
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Hoadley, Benj.
1670-1761.
Bp. Winchester.
Theological writer.
preceding.
Hobbes, Thos.
Hoadley, Benj. 1706-1757. Dramatist. Son to
1588-1679. Philosopher. A pro-
found thinker, whose Leviathan, a treatise on mo-
narchical government, is his best known work. See
Molesworth's complete edition of, 16 vols., London,
1845.
Hogg, James.
1770-1835. Scotch poet. Called
"The Ettrick Shepherd." Author of The Queen's
Wake, etc. Style diffuse, but graceful and imag-
inative. See Collected Works, 1869.
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Holcroft, Thomas. 1745-1809. Dramatist. Best
known by his novel The Marriage of Figaro, and
his famous comedy The Road to Ruin. See Mem-
oirs, edited by Hazlitt, 1816.
Holinshed, Raphael.
From him Shakespeare drew in part the stories of
Cymbeline, Henry VI., Richard II., Richard III.,
Henry IV., Henry V., Macbeth, Lear, and Henry
VIII.
c. 1580.
Holyoake, George Jacob. 1817
Chronicler.
Writer on
social science. Author of The Logic of Facts,
Hist. of Coöperation in England, etc. Pub. Lip.
Home, Henry, Lord Kames. 1696-1782. Scotch
philosopher. Author Elements of Criticism, etc.
See Life, by A. F. Tytler. Pub. Por. Sh.
Home, John. 1722-1808. Dramatist. H. wrote the
once popular play Douglas, which contains the
famous lines, "My name is Norval," etc. See com-
plete works of, with Life, by Mackenzie, 3 vols.,
8vo, Edinburgh, 1822.
Hone, Wm.
1779-1842. Satirist. Chiefly known
by his compilations; as, The Every-Day Book,
The Table-Book, etc.
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Hood, Edwin Paxton. 1820-1885. Biographer.
Author Lives of Wordsworth and Swedenborg,
The Uses of Biography, etc. Pub. Arm. Do. Lip.
Hood, Thomas. 1798–1845. Poet and humorist.
A writer whose fame as a wit has overshadowed
his merits as a poet. His style, when not profes-
sedly humorous, is tender and graceful. For moral
earnestness The Bridge of Sighs and The Song
of the Shirt cannot be surpassed. See E. P. Sar-
gent's edition, Pub. Apl.; also, F. J. Child's edi-
tion. Pub. Dut. Hou. Por. Put. Rou.
Hood, Thomas. 1835-1875. Miscellaneous writer.
Son to preceding. Author of The Rhymster, etc.
Hook, Theodore Edward. 1788-1842. A writer
of novels of fashion, inartistic in form, but full of
humor. His power of extempore verse-making
was remarkable. See Life, by Barham, 1848. Pub.
Rou.
Hook, Walter Farquhar. 1798–1875. Neph. to
T. E. H. Author Lives Abps. Cant., Ecclesiastical
Biog., Ch. Dict., etc. See Life and Letters. Pub.
Dut.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton.
Son to W. J. H.
1817
Botanist.
Author Student's Flora British
Islands, etc. Pub. Mac.
Hooker, Richard. 1553-1600. Theologian. Author
The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The greatest
prose writer of the Elizabethan age. See Keble's
edition, 3 vols. Pub. Mac.
Hooker, Sir Wm. Jackson. 1785-1865. Botanist.
Author British Ferns, Garden Ferns, British Flora,
etc. Pub. Put.
Hope, Alex. James Beresford. 1820
Son to
T. H. Author of the Eng. Cathedral in the 19th
Cent., Worship in the Church of England, etc.
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Hope, Thomas. 1770-1831. Miscellaneous writer.
Author Costumes of the Ancients, Household Fur-
niture, etc., and the famous Oriental tale Anasta-
sius. Pub. Har.
Horne, George. 1730-1792. Bp. Norwich. Theo-
logian. Author of a noted Commentary on the
Psalms. Pub. Ca.
Horne, Richard Hengist. 1803-1884. Dramatic
poet. Author Gregory VII., Cosmo de Medici,
Ballads and Romances, Orion, etc. A writer of
much power, whose circle of readers is undeser-
vedly small. See Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub.
Rob. Rou.
Horne, Thos. Hartwell. 1780-1862. Theologian.
Best known by his Introduction to the Scriptures.
Pub. Ca.
Horne-Tooke, John. 1736-1812. Philologist. Au-
thor The Diversions of Purley, etc. See Memoirs,
by Hamilton, 1812, Stephens, 1813, Graham, 1828,
N. Y.
Horner Francis. 1778-1817.
Writer on political
economy and one of the founders of the Edinburgh
Rev. See Memoir and Correspondence, 1843.
Horsley, Samuel. 1733-1806. Bp. St. Asaph. The-
ological and controversial writer of note. See
Works of, 6 vols., London, 1845.
Houghton, Lord. See Milnes, R. M.
Hoveden de [hōv'den], Roger. fl. c. 1200. Chroni-
cler. See Bohn's Antiquarian Library.
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey: 1515-1547. His
verse is mainly lyrical, his love songs being his best;
nevertheless he first introduced blank verse into
Eng. poetry. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
Howe, John. 1630-1705. Theological writer. See
Life, by Rogers, 1836. Pub. Dra.
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Howell, James. 1594-1666. Miscellaneous writer.
See Arber's reprints of Instructions for Foreign
Travel, etc.
Howitt, Anna Mary. Dau. to W. H. and M. H.
See Watts, Mrs. A. M.
Howitt, Mrs. Mary Botham. 1799
Wife to
W. H. An industrious author of numerous pop-
ular poems, mainly juvenile, of several excellent
prose tales, and of numerous translations from the
Swedish, German, and Danish, the most noted of
these being the works of Fredrika Bremer and
Hans Andersen. Her work is characterized by
earnestness and sincerity of purpose. See the Bio-
graph, Aug. 1880. Pub. Apl. Har. Rob. Rou.
Howitt, Wm. 1796-1879. Poet and Miscellaneous
Writer. A versatile author whose Rural Life in
England, Book of the Seasons, etc., have been de-
servedly popular. His wife was co-author with him
of many books. Pub. Har. Rou.
Howson, John Saul. 1816
Dean of Chester.
Theologian. Author Life and Epistles of St. Paul
[with W. J. Conybeare], Companions of St. Paul,
Metaphors of St. Paul, Miracles of Christ, etc.
Pub. Mac. Rou.
Hoyle [hoil], Edward. 1672-1769. A noted writer
upon Games. Pub. Lip. Rou.
Hugesson. See Knatchbull-Hugesson.
Hughes, John. 1677-1720. Poet and essayist. A
contributor to The Spectator.
Hughes, Thomas. 1823
A popular writer
whose School Days at Rugby, Tom Brown at Ox-
ford, Life of King Alfred, Manliness of Christ,
Scouring of the White Horse, etc., have been
widely read. Pub. Hou. Mac. Por.
Hume, David. 1711-1776. Scottish historian and
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philosopher. Author Philosophical Essays, Hist.
of England, etc. His style possesses originality
and spirit, but as a historian he is inaccurate. See
Life and Correspondence of, by T. Hill Burton,
Edinburgh, 1847; also Hume, by T. H. Huxley
in Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Har. Lip. Por.
Hunt, James Henry Leigh. 1784-1859. Poet and
essayist. Francesca da Rimini and Legend of
Florence are his finest poems, but Abou-Ben-Ad-
hem is the best known. A writer whose happy,
genial spirit expresses itself in his prose and verse.
See Autobiography edited by his son, 1850. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, and Century Mag.
March, 1882. Pub. Har. Rob. Rou.
Hunter, Mrs. Anne. 1742-1821. Poet. Her lyrics
possess much beauty, and some of them were set
to music by Haydn. "My mother bids me bind
my hair" is well known.
See
Hurd, Richard. 1720-1808. Bp. Worcester. Theo-
logian. Author Dialogues, Sermons, etc.
edition 1811, 8 vols.
Hutcheson, Francis. 1694-1747. Irish metaphy-
sician. Author of a System of Moral Philosophy,
etc. Founder of the Scotch Metaphysical School.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy. 1620-1659. Known to
literature by her admirable Memoirs of her husband
first published in 1808.
Hutton, Richard Holt. 1826.
His main work
in the London Spectator. Author Essays: Theo-
logical and Literary. Pub. Har. Mac. Por.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1825
Naturalist.
Author Man's Place in Nature, Comparative Anat-
omy, Protoplasm, Lay Sermons, etc. A leader in
modern thought and investigation. Pub. Apl.
Mac.
Handbook of English Authors.
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Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon.
1608-1673.
Historian. Author Hist. of the Great Rebellion.
His style is defective, but he is fully master of his
subject. Pub. Mac.
Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth. 1753-1821.
Novelist
and dramatist. Her novels, A Simple Story and
Nature and Art were once popular, and some of
her plays are yet acted. The best are Such Things
Are, Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are,
and Lovers' Vows. See Boaden's Life of, 1833;
also Miss Kavanagh's Eng. Women of Letters.
Pub. Har. Rou.
Ingelow [in'je-low], Jean.
1830
Poet and
novelist. Her novels Off the Skelligs, Don John,
etc., though popular and entertaining, are inartistic
in construction. Her poetry, though occasionally
obscure, is always graceful and beautiful. Songs of
Seven, The High Tide, and Divided are among the
best. Pub. Rob. Rou.
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield. 1823
Shake-
spearean scholar. Author of Shakespeare — the
Man and the Book, View of the Shakespeare Con-
troversy, etc.
Inglis, Henry David. 1795-1835. Scotch writer
of travels.
Ingulphus.
1030 ?-1109. A monk to whom was
long ascribed the famous History of the Abbey of
Croyland. See Bohn's Antiquarian Library.
Ireland, Wm. Henry. 1777-1835. Shakespearean
forger. Author of a wretched play called Vorti-
gern, which he asserted to be by Shakespeare. See
Ingleby's Shakespeare, The Man and the Book,
Part 2.
Irons, Wm.
1812-1883. Theologian. Author of
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The Whole Doctrine of Final Causes, Parochial
Lect., Sermons for the People, Hymns from the
Hebrew, Athanasius Contra Mundum, etc. Pub.
Dut.
Irving, Edward. 1792-1834. Scotch theologian.
Founder of the Irvingite, or Catholic Apostolic
Church. See Lives by Wilkes and Mrs. Oliphani;
also Carlyle's Reminiscences.
James I. King of Scotland.
1394-1437. Poet.
The King's Quhair is a long love poem in 7-line
stanzas, and pure and sweet in sentiment. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
James V. King of Scotland. 1511-1542. Poet.
Supposed author of Peebles to the Play and Christ's
Kirk on the Green: comic and satirical ballads.
James VI. of Scotland, I. of England. 1566-1625.
Author of some feeble poetry, a number of theo-
logical treatises and a famous Counterblast Against
Tobacco.
James, George Payne Rainsford. 1801-1860. Nov-
elist. Author of an immense number of novels
with a strong likeness to each other. Beginning
by imitating Scott, he ended by copying himself.
Pub. Har. Rou.
Jameson, Mrs. Anna. 1797-1860. An able writer
who touched upon many topics. Characteristics of
Women, Sacred and Legendary Art, and Diary of
an Ennuyée, are some of her books. Her disserta-
tions upon Shakespeare's women are keenly appre-
ciative. See Memoir of, by Geraldine Macpherson;
also H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches. Pub.
Apl. Har. Hou. Por. Rou.
Jeaffreson, John Cordy. 1831
Novelist and
biographer. Author Live It Down, The Real Lord
Byron, etc. Pub. Har.
Handbook of English Authors.
73
Jeffrey, Lord Francis. 1773-1850. Scotch critic
and essayist. One of the founders of the Edin-
burgh Review. A writer of great merit, but one
whose judgment was often warped by prejudice.
See Life by Lord Cockburn, 1852.
Jenkins, Edward. 1838
Political satirist.
Author Ginx's Baby, Lord Bantam, Haverholme,
etc. Pub. Har.
Jenyns, Soame.
1704-1787.
plete works of, London, 1790.
Jephson, Robert. 1736-1803.
Moralist.
See com-
Dramatist. The
Court of Narbonne and Duke of Braganza were
successful tragedies in their day.
Jerdan, Wm. 1782-1869. Journalist. See Auto-
biography, 1853.
Jerrold, Douglas Wm. 1803-1857. Dramatist and
humorist. Black-Eyed Susan and Rent Day are
his best dramas. Of his other works, A Man Made
of Money, Chronicles of Clovernook, and The
Caudle Lectures are most noted. See Life by his
son. Pub. Har. Hou. Rou.
Jerrold, Wm. Blanchard. 1826-1884. Miscellane-
ous writer. Son to D. W. J. Author Imperial
Paris, Napoleon III., etc.
Jevons, Wm. Stanley. 1835-1882. Political econ-
omist. Author The State in Relation to Labor,
Methods of Social Reform and other Essays, In-
vestigations in Currency and Finance, etc. Pub.
Apl. Mac.
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor. 1821-1880. Novelist
and journalist. Author of Zoë, Half Sisters, Con-
stance Herbert, etc. Pub. Har.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane.
Fletcher, Mrs.
Sister to G. E. J. See
Johnson, Samuel. 1705-1773. Dramatist. Author
Hurlothrumbo, etc.
74
Handbook of English Authors.
Johnson, Samuel. 1709-1784. Lexicographer and
miscellaneous writer. Author of London, a po-
etical satire, Rasselas, a didactic novel, Lives of
the Poets, Dict. of the Eng. Lang., and numerous
other works. His style is heavy and ponderous,
but dignified, sonorous, and peculiarly his own.
He was the greatest literary figure in England be-
tween 1745 and 1784. See Boswell's Life of, edited
by J. W. Croker; also Johnson by Leslie Stephen in
Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Har. Le. Lit. Mac.
Johnston, Arthur. 1587-1641. Scotch poet. Noted
for a fine Latin translation of the Psalms.
Johnstone, Charles.
1800. Novelist. Chry-
sal: or Adventures of a Guinea was once popular.
See W. Scott's Lives of Eminent Novelists.
Jones, Sir Wm. 1746-1794. Poet, Orientalist, and
translator. See edition of 1807 with Life.
Jonson, Ben. 1574-1637. Dramatist. A robust, dig-
nified writer, more popular in his day than Shake-
speare. Volpone, Silent Woman, Alchemist, Every
Man in his Humor, and Every Man out of his Hu-
mor are his best comedies: Catiline and Sejanus
his only tragedies. His pastoral drama, The Sad
Shepherd, is graceful and sweet. See Cunning-
ham's edition of Johnson, 1870, and Schlegel's
Dramatic Literature. Pub. Apl. Rou.
Jortin, John. 1698-1770. Ecclesiastical historian.
Jowett, Benjamin. 1817
Greek scholar.
Translator of Plato and Thucydides. Pub Scr.
Junius. See Francis, Sir Philip.
Kames, Lord. See Home, Henry.
Kavanagh [kav'a-nä' or kav'a-nah'], Julia. 1824-
1877. Irish novelist. Author Nathalie, Eng.
Women of Letters, Beatrice, etc. Pub. Apl. Ho.
Handbook of English Authors.
75
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belong
Kaye, Sir John Wm. 1814-1876. Military histo-
rian. Author Hist. War in Afghanistan [1851],
Hist. Sepoy War, Lives of Indian Officers, Essays
of an Optimist, etc. Pub. Lip. Rou.
Keary, Annie. 1825-1879. Novelist. Author Cas-
tle Daly, A Doubting Heart, Heroes of Asgard,
Clemency Franklyn, etc. See Memoir of, by her
Sister; also Catholic World, July, 1879. Pub.
Har. Mac. Por.
Keats, John. 1795-1821. Poet. A great master of
the music of verse. The Ode on a Grecian Urn
and Ode to a Nightingale are nearly perfect poems.
The Eve of St. Agnes, Isabella, Hyperion and En-
dymion are longer poems, full of sensuous richness
of expression and intensity of feeling. See Rosset-
ti's edition of. See Life of, by Lord Houghton.
Keble [kěb'l], John. 1792-1866. Religious poet.
Author Christian Year, Lyra Innocentium, etc.
Versification musical and refined. See Shairp's
Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, C. Yonge's Mus-
ings over the Christian Year, Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 4, and Memoir by J. T. Coleridge. Pub. Dut.
Keddie, Henrietta, "Sarah Tytler." 1827
Novelist. Author Citoyenne Jacqueline, What She
Came Through, and several valuable literary and
artistic handbooks. Pub. Har. Rob. Rou.
Keightley [[kit'l], Thomas. 1789-1872. Histo-
rian. Author Hist. England to 1839, Outlines of
Hist., Mythology of Ancient Greece, etc. Pub.
Apl. Har. Lip.
Kemble, Adelaide.
See Sartoris, Mrs.
Kemble, Frances Anne.
1811
Poet and mis-
cellaneous writer. See Allibone's Dict. Pub. Har.
Ho.
Kemble, John Mitchell. 1807-1857. Anglo-Saxon
76
Handbook of English Authors.
scholar. Bro to A. K. and F. A. K. Author of The
A writer of authority in
Saxons in England, etc.
his department.
Ken, Thomas. 1637-1711. Bp. Bath and Wells.
Poet. His Morning and Evening Hymns intro-
duced a simpler, sincerer style of religious poetry.
See Life, by Duychinck.
Kenney, Charles Lamb. 1823-1881. Dramatist.
Author lives of Balzac and Balfe, etc. Pub. Rou.
Kenney, James. 1780-1849. Dramatist. Author
Raising the Wind, etc.
King, Henry. 1591-1669. Bp. Chichester. Relig-
ious poet.
Kinglake, Alex. Wm. 1802
Historian. A
brilliant and powerful writer. Author Hist. Cri-
mean War, Eothen, etc. Pub. Arm. Har.
Kingsley, Charles. 1819-1875. Novelist and poet.
Author of Andromeda, the finest Eng. hexameter
poem, and the stories, Alton Locke, Yeast, West-
ward Ho, Hypatia, At Last, etc. Style forcible but
uneven. See Life by Mrs. Kingsley, 1876. Pub.
Apl. Har. Mac. Lip. Scr.
Kingsley, Henry. 1830-1876. Novelist. Bro. to
C. K. Author Ravenshoe, Silcote of Silcotes,
Austin Elliott, Hetty, etc. Pub. Do. Har. Mac. Rou.
Kingston, Wm. H. G. 1843-1880. Author of spir-
ited tales of adventure for young readers. Pub.
Arm. Cas. Lip. Rou.
Kitchener, Wm. 1775-1827. Physician. Author
of the Cook's Oracle, etc. Pub. Har.
Kitto, John. 1804-1854. Author of the Pictorial
Bible, Cyc. of Biblical Lit., etc. Pub. Ca. Phi.
Knatchbull-Hugesson, Edward. 1829
Writer
for children. Author Crackers for Christmas and
several vols. of fairy tales. Pub. Apl. Har. Rou.
Handbook of English Authors.
77
Knight, Charles. 1791-1873. Shakespearean scholar
and miscellaneous writer. Author of a Pictorial
Hist. England, etc. Editor of a Pictorial Shake-
speare, etc. See Passages from the Life of (pub.
Put.). Pub. Fu. Lip. Por.
Knight, Richard Payne. 1750-1824. Poet and
antiquary. His verse is worthless, but his ar-
chæological works are much esteemed. See edition,
1874, N. Y.
Knolles [nōlz], Richard. 1540-1610. Historian.
His Hist. of the Turks was much praised by Dr.
Johnson and Hallam.
Knowles, Herbert. 1798-1817. Religious poet.
Knowles, James Sheridan. 1794-1862. Irish dram-
atist. His best tragedies are Caius Gracchus,
Virginius, and Wm. Tell. The Hunchback is his
finest comedy. While his works will not bear se-
vere criticism, they are popular and among the best
acting of modern plays. See edition, 1873.
Knowles, Richard Brinsley. 1819-1882.
J. S. K. Journalist and historical writer.
author of the comedy The Maiden Aunt.
Knox, Mrs. Craig. See Craig-Knox.
Knox, John. 1505-1572.
Son to
Was
1505-1572. Scotch theologian. Au-
thor Hist. Reformation in Scotland, and First Blast
Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. See
Lives by Smeaton, 1572; McCrie, 1812; Niemeyer,
1824; Laing, 1847, and Brandes, 1863. See Fra-
ser's Mag. April, 1875; also Lorimer's John Knox
and the Church of England.
Knox, Vicesimus. 1752-1821. Essayist. Author
Winter Evenings, Family Lect., etc.
Knox, Wm. 1789-1825. Scotch poet. Best re-
membered for his poem "O why should the spirit
of mortal be proud!" Pub. Le.
78
Handbook of English Authors.
Kyd, Thomas.
fl. c. 1590.
Dramatist. Author
Hieronimo, The Spanish Tragedy, etc. See Lamb's
Dramatic Poets.
Kynaston, Francis. 1587-1642. Poet.
Laffan, May.
18-
Novelist. Author Hogan,
M. P., Flitters Tatters and the Counsellor, Christy
Carew, and The Honorable Miss Ferrard. Pub.
Ho. Mac.
Laing, David. 1793-1878. Librarian and bibliog-
rapher. A literary student of great diligence, and
editor and author of some two hundred and fifty
works.
Laing, Malcolm.
1762-1818.
thor Hist. of Scotland, etc.
truthful.
Scotch historian. Au-
Style independent and
Laing, Samuel. 1780-1868. Traveler. Author Nor-
way, Tour in Sweden, etc., and tran lator of the
Heimskringla, or Chronicle of the Kings of Nor-
way.
Lamb, Caroline, Lady. 1785-1828. Novelist. Au-
thor Glenarvon, Graham Hamilton, etc.
Lamb, Charles. 1775-1834. Essayist. A humor-
ist who is unsurpassed for gentleness and purity of
style. Essays of Elia, Rosamond Gray, a tale, John
Woodvil, a drama; and Specimens of Old Eng.
Dramatists are his chief works. Among the Es-
says Dream-Children is the most nearly perfect.
See Lives by Talfourd, Fitzgerald, and Procter.
See Centenary edition of, 1875. Pub. Arm. Clx.
Har. Lip. Rou.
Lamb, Mary Anne. 1765-1847. Sister to C. L.
and co-author with him of Tales from Shakespeare,
Poetry for Children, etc. See W. Carew Hazlitt's
edition of Poems, Letters, etc. of Chas. and Mary
Handbook of English Authors.
79
Lamb, 1874; and Mary Lamb, by Anne Gilchrist,
in Famous Women.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth [Mrs. Maclean], 1802-
1838. Poet and novelist. Her verse is melodious
and delicate, but is lacking in force. See Poems of,
edited by W. B. Scott, 1873. See Life by L. Blan-
chard, 1841, and Living Age, Fan. 6, 1883. Pub.
Apl.
Landor, Walter Savage. 1775-1864. Poet and
prose writer. Author Gebir, Heroic Idyls, Hel-
lenics, etc., and of numerous prose works, of which
the Imaginary Conversations is the chief. A strong,
original writer, self asserting and unrestrained.
See Forster's Life of, Stedman's Victorian Poets,
Atlantic Monthly, April, May, and June, 1864,
and Feb. 1883, H. Martineau's Biographical
Sketches, and Landor, by Colvin, in Eng. Men of
Letters. Pub. Lip. Rob.
Au-
and
Lane, Edward Wm. 1801-1876. Orientalist.
thor Modern Egyptians, Arabic Lexicon, etc,
translator of the Arabian Nights. Pub. Lit.
Lang, Andrew. 1844
in Blue China, Helen of Troy, etc. See Harper's
Mag. May, 1882, "Some London Poets." Pub.
Mac.
Poet.
Author Ballads
Langhorne, John. 1735-1779. Poet and translator
of Plutarch.
Langland, Wm. C. 1322-C. 1400. Poet. Author
Vision of Piers Plowman, an allegorical, satir-
ical poem, aimed at the corruptions of the church.
See edition by Wright, 1856; also Skeat's edition.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1. Pub. Mac.
Lardner, Dionysius. 1793-1859. Scientific writer.
Lardner, Nathaniel. 1684-1768. Theological writer.
See Collected Works, with Memoir by Kippis, 1788.
80
Handbook of English Authors.
Ethnologist.
Latham, Rob't Gordon. 1812
Author Man and His Migrations, etc.
Latimer, Hugh. C. 1491-1555. Bp. Worcester.
Theologian. His Sermons are rude but forcible
and strongly idiomatic discourses. See Corrie's
edition. London, 4 vols. 8vo, 1845. See Life, by
Demaus, 1869; and Tulloch's Leaders of the Ref-
ormation.
Law, Wm. 1686-1761. Theologian. Author Seri-
ous Call to a Higher Life, etc. See Life, by Tighe,
1813.
Lawrence, Geo. Alfred. 1827-1876. Novelist. Au-
thor Guy Livingstone, Sword and Gown, Sans Merci,
Anteros, Maurice Dering, etc. Pub. Har. Lip.
Layamon. fl. c. 1200. Author The Brut, or Chroni-
cle of Britain, a famous semi-Saxon poem. Style
earnest and simple. See F. Madden's edition, 1847.
Layard [la ard], Austen Henry. 1817
chæologist. Author Nineveh and its Remains,
Monuments of Nineveh, etc. Pub. Har.
Lear, Edward. 18-
Author Journal of a
Landscape Painter, Nonsense Book, etc.
Rob.
Lecky, Wm. Edw. Hartpole. 1838
Ar-
Pub.
Irish
historian. Author Hist. Rationalism, Hist. Euro-
pean Morals, Hist. England in the 18th Cent. etc.
A careful, dignified writer who treats of history
philosophically. Pub. Apl.
Lee, Frederick George. 1832. Theologian.
and poet. Author of Historical Sketches of the
Reformation, Lyrics of Life and Light, etc. See
The Biograph, Aug. 1880. Pub. Dut.
Lee, Harriet. 1766-1851. Author [with Sophia L.]
of the Canterbury Tales, a series of tales of much
power. Byron's Werner is a version of one of
them.
Handbook of English Authors.
81
Lee, Holme. See Parr, Harriet.
Lee, Nathaniel. 1655-1692. Dramatist. Alexan-
der the Great is one of his tragedies.
Lee, Sophia. 1750-1824. Novelist. Sister to H.
L. Author of two of the Canterbury Tales, of
several novels, and of the comedy The Chapter of
Accidents.
Lee, Wm. 1815-1883. Irish theologian and eccle-
siologist. His chief work is the Donnellan Lect.
on the Inspiration of Scripture. A profound bibli-
cal scholar. Pub. Ca.
LeFanu, J. Sheridan. ?
1874. Novelist. Au-
thor All in the Dark, Tenants of Malory, etc. Pub.
Har.
Leighton [lā-ton], Rob't. 1611–1684. Abp. Glasgow.
Theologian. His style is still much admired. See
Pearson's edition, London, 1828, N. Y. 1859. Pub.
Ca.
L. E. L. See Landon.
Leland, John.
1506-1552. Antiquarian. Author
The Itinerary, etc.
Lemon, Mark. 1809-1870. Journalist, novelist, and
dramatist. The Serious Family is his best known
farce. Author Jest Book, etc. Pub. Mac.
Lempriere [lěm'pri-er, or lem-preer'], John. 1765-
1824. Scholar of note. Author of a Classical
Dict., and a Universal Biography. Pub. Lip. Put.
Rou.
Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte. 1720-1804. Novelist. Au-
thor Harriet Stuart and The Female Quixote.
Lesley, John. 1527-1596. Bp. Ross. Scotch his-
torian. See Thomson's Edition, 1830.
Leslie, Chas. 1650-1722. Irish theologian. Leslie
wrote A Short and Easy Method with the Deists,
a controversial work once noted.
£
6
82
Handbook of English Authors.
Leslie, Chas. Rob't.
1794-1859. Artist. Author
Handbook for Young Painters, Memoirs Sir John
Constable, Life and Times Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc.
See Autobiographical Recollection of, edited by Tom
Taylor, 1860.
L'Estrange [lès-tranj], Sir Roger. 1616-1704. Po-
litical writer and translator.
Lever [lē'ver], Chas. James.
1806–1872. Irish
novelist. Author Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Mal-
ley, etc., rollicking tales not greatly approved by
the present taste. His later novels, like That Boy
of Norcott's, etc., are soberer in tone. Pub. Har.
Lewes [lu-is], Geo. Henry. 1817-1878. Philosopher
and critic. Author Problems of Life and Mind,
Life of Goethe, Hist. of Philosophy, etc. Pub.
Apl. Ho. Hou.
Lewes, Mrs. G. H. See Evans, Marian.
Lewis, Sir Geo. Cornewall. 1806-1863. Political
and historical writer. See Letters of, 1870.
Lewis, Matthew Gregory. 1775-1818. Novelist.
Famous as the author of The Monk, a fantastic,
demoniac tale. See Life and Correspondence, 1839.
Leyden [li'den], John. 1775-1811. Scotch poet
and Orientalist. See edition of his poems, 1858.
Liddell [lid'del], Mrs. Catharine Christina Fraser-
Tytler. 1848
Poet and novelist. Author
Mistress Judith, Jonathan, Songs in Minor Keys,
etc. Pub. Ho. Mac.
Liddell, Mrs. Edward. See Liddell, Mrs. C.
Liddell, Henry George. 1811
Classical
scholar. Author of a Hist. of Rome, and co-au-
thor with Scott of the noted Greek lexicon known
as Liddell-and-Scott's.
Liddon, Henry, Parry.
Pub. Har.
1830
Theologian.
Author Bampton Lect. 1867, University Sermons,
Handbook of English Authors.
83
Sermons to the People, etc. A leader of High
Church thought. Pub. Dut.
Lightfoot, Joseph Barber. 1828
ham. Biblical commentator.
Bp. Dur-
Pub. Mac.
Author
Lillo, George. 1693-1739. Dramatist.
George Barnwell, Fatal Curiosity, and Arden of
Feversham. A master of dramatic situations.
Lindsay, Sir David. 1490-1557. Scotch poet. See
Chalmers' edition with Life, 1806. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. I.
Lingard, John.
1771-1859. Historian. Author
Hist. England, Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Ch.,
etc. His history has a high rank and is valued as
a fair statement of facts from a Roman Catholic
standpoint. Pub. Est. Sad.
Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn.
1822
Novelist.
Wife to W. J. L. Author Lizzie Lorton, Sowing
the Wind, etc. Pub. Har. Lip. Rou.
Linton, Wm. James. 1812
Poet and Engra-
ver. Author Claribel, Hist. Wood Engraving, Life
Thos. Paine, etc. See Stedman's Victorian Poets.
Pub. Est. Le.
Livingstone, David. 1813-1873. African explorer.
Author Expedition to the Zambesi, Last Journals,
etc. Pub. Har.
Lloyd, Chas. ?
Chas. Lamb.
1839. Poet.
Co-author with
See Collected
Lloyd, Robert. 1733-1764. Poet.
Works with Life, by Kenrick, 1774.
Locke, John. 1632-1704. Philosopher. Author of
the famous Essay on the Understanding, a work of
great penetration and power. See Life by Fox-
Bourne, and Locke, by T. Fowler in Eng. Men of
Letters. Pub. Apl.
Locker, Frederick.
1821
Poet. Author
84
Handbook of English Authors.
London Lyrics, etc. Style airy and graceful. See
Century Mag. Feb. 1883. Pub. W.
Lockhart, John Gibson. 1794-1854. Scotch critic
and biographer. A writer of much talent and for 27
years editor of the Quarterly Rev.: author Lives of
Nelson, Scott, Burns, Napoleon, etc. See H. Marti-
neau's Biographical Sketches. Pub. Har. Ho. Hou.
Lockyer, Joseph Norman. 1836
Astronomer.
•
Author Contributions to Solar Physics, etc. Pub.
Apl. Mac.
Lodge, Edmund. 1756–1839. Historian. Author
Illustrations of British Hist., Portraits of Illustrious
Persons of Gt. Britain, etc.
Lodge, Thomas. c. 1555-1625. Dramatist and Poet.
To his novel Roslynde; Euphues Golden Legacy,
Shakespeare owes the plot and incidents of As You
Like It. See As You Like It, Rolfe's edition, and
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
Logan, John. 1748-1788. Scotch poet. His verse
is fresh and simple, and his Song to the Cuckoo has
great beauty. See edition 1805, with Life.
Long, George. 1800-1879. Classical scholar. Au-
thor Roman Law, Decline and Fall of the Roman
Republic, etc.
Loudon, Mrs. Jane. 1800-1858. Wife to J. C. L.
Author of The Mummy, a tale, and several horti-
cultural works. Pub. Rou. Wil.
Loudon, John Claudius. 1783-1843. Scotch horti-
culturist. His Arboretum Britannicum is his chief
work.
Lovelace, Sir Richard. 1618-1658. Poet. His verse
is principally amatory, and some of his songs are
perfect of their kind. To Althea and To Lucasta
are the most famous. See Carew Hazlitt's edition
of, 1864, and Ward's English Poets, vol. 2.
Handbook of English Authors.
85
Lover, Samuel. 1797-1868. Irish dramatist, nov-
elist, and poet. Rory O'More and Handy Andy
are his best known novels. His most famous song
is Rory O'More. See Life by Bayle Bernard, 1874,
and Samuel Lover, by A. J. Symington. Pub. Por.
Rou. Sad.
Lower, Mark Antony. 1813-1876. Author Eng.
Surnames, Curiosities of Heraldry, Patronymica
Britannica, etc.
Lowndes, Wm. Thos.
? 1843. Bibliographer.
Author British Librarian and The Bibliographer's
Manual.
Lowth [louth], Rob't.
1710-1787. Bp. London.
Son to W. L. A classical and theological writer of
great learning. See Life, by Peter Hall, 1834.
Lowth, Wm. 1661-1732. Theologian of note.
Lubbock, Sir John. 1834
Naturalist. Au-
Pub. Apl. Mac.
thor Origin of Civilization, Pre-Historic Times,
British Wild Flowers, etc.
Lydgate, John. 1370-1440.
Poet. An exceedingly
diffuse rhymer. See minor works of, pub. by the
Percy Soc. 1842, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
Lyell, Sir Chas. 1797-1875. Geologist. Author
Elements of Geology, Travels in N. America. An-
tiquity of Man, etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Lip.
Lyly or Lily, John. 1554-1606. Dramatic poet.
His dramas are forgotten, but his prose romance,
Euphues and his England, is remembered for the
great influence it had upon the speech of the time.
L. was a reformer, though pedantic and fantastic.
Euphuism has been ridiculed by Sydney, Jonson,
Shakespeare, and Walter Scott. See Collins's Hist.
Dramatic Poetry, Lamb's Specimens Early Eng.
Poets, and Chas. Kingsley's Westward Ho.
Lyndsay. See Lindsay, David.
86
Handbook of English Authors.
Lyte, Henry Francis. 1793-1847. Poet. His hymn,
Abide with Me, is widely known. Pub. Le. Ran.
Lyttleton, George, Lord. 1709-1773. Author Dia-
logues of the Dead, Hist. Henry II., etc. See Life,
by Phillimore, 1845.
Lytton. See Bulwer-Lytton.
Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine. 1733-1791. Historian.
Author Hist. of England during the Stuart dynasty,
etc.
Macaulay, Thos. Babington, Lord. 1800-1859.
Poet, essayist, and historian. A brilliant but parti-
san writer. The impetuous rush and vigor of his
Lays of Ancient Rome obscure their poetical defects.
His essays are numerous and cover a wide range.
His Hist. of England is a superb piece of writing
but it lacks the calm impartiality that a history
should possess. See Lives by Milman, F. Arnold
and G. O. Trevelyan; Macaulay, by F. C. Morrison
in Eng. Men of Letters; and H. Martineau's Bio-
graphical Sketches. Pub. Apl. Arm. Clx. Har.
Hou. Lip. Lit. Por. Rou.
MacDonald, George. 1824
Scotch novelist
and poet.
His work is all of an earnest, religious
cast, but marred sometimes by mannerisms and
vagueness of touch. Robert Falconer, Alec Forbes,
and St. George and St. Michael are the best of his
numerous novels. Phantastes contains some of
his best poetry. See Lit. World, May 19, 1883.
Pub. Apl. Do. Har. Lip. Mac. Rob. Rou. Scr.
Mackarness, Mrs. Henry. 1826-1881. Author of
the tale A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam, etc. Pub.
Rou.
Mackay, Chas.
1814
Scotch poet and mis-
cellaneous writer. Author Town Lyrics, etc. See
Poems of, edition 1876. Pub. Rou.
Handbook of English Authors.
87
Mackay, Wm. 1803-1882. Philosopher. Author
Progress of the Intellect, Eternal Gospel, etc.
Mackenzie, Sir George. 1636-1691. Scotch mis-
cellaneous writer. A voluminous author of much
eminence in his day.
Mackenzie, Henry. 1745-1831. Scotch novelist and
essayist. Author the famous novel, The Man of
Feeling, etc. See collected works, 1808. Pub. Har.
Mackintosh, Sir James. 1765-1832. Ethical and
historical writer. See Memoirs by his son. Pub.
Har.
Macklin, Chas. 1690-1797. Irish dramatist. Au-
thor of the bright comedy, The Man of the World.
M. appeared on the stage as an actor till nearly 100.
See Memoirs of, 1804.
Macleod [mǎk-lowd'], Norman. 1812-1872. Scotch
miscellaneous writer. Author of The Starling,
Reminiscences of a Highland Parish, etc.
See
Life by his brother, and Memoir by Alex. Strahan.
Pub. Do. Lip. Rou.
Macneil, Hector. 1746–1818. Scotch poet. Author
Will and Jean, etc.
Macpherson, James. 1738-1796. Scotch poet. Sup-
posed author of a series of poems purporting to be
by Ossian, an ancient Gaelic bard. These forger-
ies were immensely popular in spite of their wild
and over-strained diction. M. never revealed the
secret of their authorship. See H. Morley's Shorter
Eng. Poems.
Macquoid, Mrs. Katherine S. 18-
Nov-
elist. Author Patty, Beside the River, Too Soon,
etc., and several vols. of travel, Through Nor-
mandy, Through Brittany, etc. Pub. Apl. Har.
Lip. Mac. Ran. Rou.
Madden, Richard Robert. 1798
Poet and
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miscellaneous writer. Author The Infirmities of
Genius, etc.
Magee, Wm.
1765-1831. Abp. Dublin. Theolo-
gian. His best known work is the Discourses on
the Atonement. See complete works, 1842.
Magee, Wm. Connor. 1821
Bp. Peterbor-
ough. Grandson to Wm. M. Religious writer.
Author Sermons, Lectures, etc. Style eloquent and
forcible. Pub. Wh.
Maginn, Wm. 1793-1842. Irish humorist. Style
learned, witty, and brilliant. See Works, edited by
R. S. Mackenzie, 5 vols., N. Y. 1857. Pub. Wid.
Mahaffey, John Peytland. 1839
Author Hist.
Classical Greek Lit., Old Greek Life, Rambles and
Studies in Greece, Greek Social Life, Old Greek
Education, etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Mac.
Mahoney, Francis, "Father Prout."
1805-1866.
Irish poet and journalist. M. wrote the noted
poem, The Bells of Shandon.
Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner. 1822
Jurist. Author Roman Law, Ancient Law, Village
Communities, Early Hist. of Institutions, etc. Pub.
Ho.
Maitland, Edward. 18—
Novelist. Author
The Higher Law, The Pilgrim and the Shrine, and
By-and-By. Pub. Put.
Maitland, Sir Richard. 1496–1586. Scotch poet.
Malcolm, Sir John. 1769-1833. Diplomatist. Au-
thor Hist. of Persia, Political Hist. India, Life of
Lord Clive, etc. See Kaye's Life of, London, 1856.
Mallet, David. 1700-1765. Scotch poet. Author
Ballads, etc.
Mallock, Wm. Hurrel. 1849
Novelist. Au-
thor Is Life Worth Living, The New Republic,
Positivism on an Island, Romance of the 19th
Cent., etc. A writer of much force and originality.
Handbook of English Authors.
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Malmesbury, Wm. of. 1095 ?-1143. Anglo-Nor-
man historian.
Malone, Edmund.
1741 - 1812.
Shakespearean
scholar. Editor of the edition of 1790. See Life,
by Prior, 1860.
Malory, Sir Thomas. 1430?-1496. Author or
translator of the famous romance, The Morte
d'Arthur. Pub. Mac.
Malthus, Thos. Robt. 1766-1834. Political econo-
mist. Author of a celebrated Essay on the Prin-
ciple of Population. See Life, by Otter, 1836.
Mandeville, Bernard. 1670-1733. Philosopher.
Author of the noted Fable of the Bees, or Private
Vices Public Benefits, etc. See Craik's Eng. Lit.
vol. 2.
Mandeville, Sir John. 1300-1372. "The first writer
in formed English." He traveled extensively and
wrote an entertaining account of his travels.
Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere. 1672-1724.
Novelist and dramatist. She wrote the noted po-
litical satire, The New Atlantis.
Manners, John, Lord. 1818
Poet. Author
England's Trust, English Ballads, etc.
Manning, Anne. 1807
Novelist. Author
Mary Powell, Household of Sir Thos. More, Pas-
sages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, etc. Pub.
Do.
Manning, Henry Edw., Cardinal. 1808
The-
ologian. Author Temporal Power of the Pope,
Parochial Sermons, The Vatican Decrees, etc.
See Century Mag. May, 1883. Pub. Apl. Sad.
Mannyng, Robert. fl. c. 1340. Rhyming chron-
icler.
Mansel, Henry Longueville. 1820-1871. Philoso-
pher. Author The Limits of Religious Thought,
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Philosophy of Consciousness, Bampton Lect., 1858,
etc. Pub. Apl. Mac.
Mant, Richard. 1776-1848. Bp. Killaloe. Re-
ligious writer. Author Poems, Hist. Ch. of Ireland,
etc.
Mantell, Gideon Algernon. 1790-1852. Geological
writer of note. Author Thoughts on a Pebble,
Medals of Creation, etc.
Map, or Mapes, Walter. 1150-1196. Anglo-Nor-
man poet and romancer.
Marlowe, Christopher. 1564-1593. Dramatist and
poet. The greatest dramatist before Shakespeare.
His Tamburlaine was the first blank verse play
acted. Faustus, Jew of Malta, and Edward II. are
powerful dramas. The influence of Marlowe is
traceable in several of Shakespeare's plays. See
editions by Cunningham and Dyce. See Schlegel's
Dramatic Lit. Pub. Mac. Rou. Hou.
Marryatt, Frederick.
1792-1849. Marine novelist.
Peter Simple, Jacob Faithful, and Midshipman Easy
are among the best of his novels. They are lively,
inartistic tales, full of broad fun and drollery. See
Life, by his daughter Florence, 1872. Pub. Apl.
Har. Lip. Rob.
Marryatt, Florence. See Ross-Church, Mrs.
Marsh, Mrs. Anne Caldwell. ?
1874. Nov-
elist. Author Ravenscliffe, Emilia Wyndham, Let-
tice Arnold, etc. Pub. Har.
Marsh, Herbert. 1757-1839.
Bp. Peterborough.
A profound writer on politics and divinity. Author
of a noted Hist. of the Politics of Gt. Britain and
France.
Marston, John. 1575-1634. Dramatist and satirist.
See Halliwell's edition, 3 vols., London, 1856.
Marston, Philip Bourke. 1850
Poet. Son
Handbook of English Authors.
91
to W. M. Author Song-Tide, All in All, etc., and
of numerous sketches and tales.
strongly subjective in tone.
torian Poets, and Lit. World,
Marston, Westland. 1820
His verse is
See Stedman's Vic-
Apr. 19, 1884.
Dramatist and
poet. The Patrician's Daughter is one of his best
plays.
Martin, Theodore.
1816
Translator and bi-
ographer. Author of Life of the Prince Consort,
etc., and with W. E. Aytoun of the Bon Gualtier
Ballads. See The Biograph, Jan. 1879. Pub. Apl.
Por.
Martineau, Harriet. 1802-1876. Miscellaneous
writer. Her illustrations of political economy are
in the form of fiction. Deerbrook and The Hour
and the Man are her most noted romances. Style
strong, clear, and original. See Autobiography,
1876. Pub. Har. Ho. Mac. Por. Rob. Rou.
Martineau, James. 1805
Theologian. Bro.
to H. M. A leader of Unitarian thought. Author
Studies of Christianity, Hymns of Praise and
Prayer, Religious and Modern Materialism, En-
deavors after a Christian Life, etc. Pub. Ho. Put.
Rob. A. U. A.
Marvell, Andrew. 1620-1678. Poet and contro-
versialist. As the former he ranks among the first
of the minor poets of his time. His fancy is deli-
cate and quaint. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Pub. Har.
Marzials, Théophile. 1850
Poet and musi-
cian. Author of The Gallery of Pigeons, etc. Of
his songs Twickenham Ferry is one of the best
known. See The Biograph, March, 1880.
Mason, Wm. 1725-1797. Poet. His verse is
wordy and feeble.
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Massey, Gerald.
1828
Poet.
Author Babe
His verse has
See Stedman's
Christabel, Craigcrook Castle, etc.
more sweetness than strength.
Victorian Poets.
Massinger [măs'sĭn-jěr], Philip.
1584-1640. A
writer of much power whose style is clear and flex-
ible. The Virgin Martyr, Fatal Dowry, City Mad-
am, and A New Way to Pay Old Debts, are his fin-
est plays. The latter is often acted. See Works
of, edited by Gifford, 4 vols.
Masson, David. 1822
Scotch biographer and
critic. Author British Novelists, Biographical and
Critical Essays, Recent British Philosophy, etc.
His chief work is a Life of Milton, a book of great
merit and ability. See The Biograph, vol. 3. Pub.
Mac. Apl.
Mathers, Helen. See Reeves, Mrs.
Mathias, Thos. James. 1776-1835. Supposed au-
thor of the poem The Pursuits of Literature.
Maturin [măt-yoo'rin], Chas. Robert. 1782-1824.
Irish novelist. Author Melmoth, an extravagant
romance, and the tragedy of Bertram.
Maurice [maw'rĭss], John Frederic Denison. 1805–
1872. Theologian and ethical writer. A prominent
Broad Church clergyman, writing much and well
upon theology, philosophy, and other subjects. A
Hist. Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy is his
chief work. Others are Theological Essays, The
Bible and Science, and the Friendship of Books.
See Life, edited by his son. Pub. Le. Mac.
Maxwell, James Clerk. 1831-1879. Scientific
writer of note. Pub. Apl. Mac.
Maxwell, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Braddon]. 1837
Novelist. A writer of sensational tales, of
which Aurora Floyd is the most famous. Her
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latest novels show a greatly improved style. Pub.
Har.
Maxwell, Wm. Hamilton. 1794-1850. Irish nov-
elist. His fiction is military in character. Pub.
Rou.
Maxwell, Sir Wm. Stirling. 1818-1878. Author
The Cloister Life of Chas. V., Velasquez and his
Works, etc.
May, Sir Thos. Erskine. 1815
Historian.
Author Constitutional Hist. England, Hist. Democ-
racy in Europe, etc. Style careful and thoughtful.
See Lit. World, April, 1878, and The Biograph,
March, 1880. Pub. Arm. Wid.
Mayhew, Augustus. 1812-1875. Littérateur.
Mayhew, Edward. 1813
Veterinary writer.
Bro. to A. M. Author Illustrated Horse Doctor,
etc. Pub. Apl. Lip. Rou.
Mayhew, Henry. 1812-1876. Bro. to two preceding.
Author London Labor and London Poor, German
Life and Manners and numerous humorous works.
Pub. Har. Rou.
Mayhew, Horace. 1819-1872. Humorist. Bro. to
three preceding. Author Letters Left at the Pastry
Cook's, etc.
Mayhew, Thomas. 1810
Bro. to four preced-
ing. Editor of the Penny National Library.
Mayne, John. 1759-1836. Scotch poet.
of The Siller Gun, Logan Braes, etc.
Author
Mayo, Mrs. Isabella Fyvie, "Edward Garrett."
1843
Religious novelist. Author By Still
Waters, Occupations of a Retired Life, Gold and
Dross, etc. Pub. Do.
McCarthy, Denis Florence. 1820-1880. Poet and
miscellaneous writer. Author Ballads, Poems, and
other Lyrics, etc., and translator of the dramas of
Calderon.
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McCarthy, Justin. 1830
Novelist and his-
torian. Author Linley Rochford, Dear Lady Dis-
dain, etc., and of a valuable Hist. of Our Own
Times. Style graphic and forcible. Pub. Har.
McCulloch, John Ramsay. 1789-1864. Political
economist. Author Principles of Political Econ-
omy, Dict. of Commerce, Statistical Account of the
British Empire, etc.
Melmoth, Wm. 1710-1799. Translator of Pliny.
Author Lælius, or Friendship, etc.
Melville, Sir James. 1535-1606.
Author Historical Memoirs.
Scotch writer.
Melville, John George Whyte. 1821-1878. Novel-
ist. Author Kate Coventry, The White Rose,
Katerfelto, etc. Pub. Apl. Por.
Meredith, Owen. See Bulwer-Lytton, E. R.
Merivale, Chas. 1808-1874. Historian. Author
Hist. Latin Christianity, Fall of the Roman Repub-
lic, Hist. of the Romans under the Empire, etc. A
writer of much ease and dignity of style, whose his-
torical estimates are careful and valuable. Pub.
Apl. Har. Rou.
Merivale, Herman.
Bro. to C. M.
1806-1874. Historical writer.
Merrick, James. 1720-1769. Poet. His poem
The Chameleon is well known.
Miall, Edward. 1809-1881. Political writer. Au-
thor Ethics of Non-Conformity, The Voluntary
Principle, etc.
Mickle, Wm. Julius. 1734-1788. Scotch poet.
His poem, Cumnor Hall, suggested Scott's Kenil-
worth. See Works of, 1808.
Middleton, Conyers. 1683-1750. Theologian. M.
wrote a Life of Cicero and a Free Inquiry into the
Miraculous Powers of the Church.
Handbook of English Authors.
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Middleton, Thomas. 1570-1627. Dramatist. The
Witch of Edmonton, a tragi-comedy, is his most
noted play. See Dyce's edition, 1840.
Mill, James. 1773-1836. Scotch historian and
philologist. Author of an impartial Hist. British
India, Analysis of the Mind, etc.
Mill, John Stuart. 1806-1873. Philosopher. Son
to J. M. A profound but cold thinker and writer.
Author System of Logic, Political Economy, Lib-
erty, Subjection of Women, etc. See Autobiogra-
phy, Taine's Eng. Lit., and Caroline Fox's Mem-
ories of old Friends. Pub. Apl. Har. Ho. Lit.
Miller, Hugh. 1802-1856. Geologist. Author Old
Red Sandstone, Footprints of the Creator, etc.,
works which greatly helped to popularize the study
of geology. See Life, by Peter Bayne. Pub. Ca.
Miller, Thomas. 1808-1874. Poet and novelist.
Author Rural Sketches, Country Scenes, Fair Rosa-
mond, Songs for British Riflemen, etc. Pub. Rou.
Milman, Henry Hart. 1791-1868. Poet and his-
torian. M. was author of Fazio, a successful drama,
of an excellent Hist. of the Jews, of numerous
poems, and editor of an annotated Gibbon. Pub.
Arm. Har. Lit. Por. Put. Rou.
Milnes [milnz], Richard Monckton, Lord Hough-
Poet and littérateur. Autho
ton. 1809
See
Poems of Many Years, Life of Keats, etc.
Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub. Rob.
Milton, John. 1608-1674. Poet. His literary life
sharply defines itself into 3 periods; in the first,
1626-1640, he wrote the poems L'Allegro, Il Pense-
roso, the Pastoral of Comus, and the elegy Lycidas.
During the second, 1640–1660, he wrote prose trea-
tises, mainly controversial, such as the Areopagitica,
and his sonnets. After 1660 came the great epics,
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Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, and the
choral drama Samson Agonistes. A great artist,
he created the Eng. epic, infusing it with his own
severe strength and dignity. He had no humor or
feeling for dramatic situation but he could be both
graceful and tender as his early poems show. He
was the great Puritan poet. Of the numerous
Lives of Milton the best are, Masson's and Mark
Pattison's Milton in Eng. Men of Letters. Picker-
ing's, Rossetti's and Masson's are among the best
editions of his poems. For complete edition of his
prose works see Bohn's Standard Library. See
Hines's Study of Paradise Lost. Pub. Mac.
Minto, Wm. 1845
Littérateur. Author Char-
acteristics of Eng. Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley,
Manual of Eng. Prose Lit., Defoe in Eng. Men of
Letters, etc. Pub. Har.
Mitford, John. 1781-1859. Poet and critic.
Mitford, Mary Russell. 1786-1855. Miscellaneous
writer. Author of the tragedies Julian, Rienzi, Fos-
cari, etc., and the charming series of prose sketches
entitled Our Village. See Fields' Yesterdays with
Authors, and The Friendships of Mary Russell
Mitford. Pub. Har.
Mitford, Wm. 1744-1827. Historian. Author Hist.
of Greece, etc. See Life, by Lord Redesdale.
Mivart, St. George.
1827
Naturalist. Au-
thor The Genesis of Species, Contemporary Evolu-
tion, The Cat, etc. Pub. Apl. Mac. Scr.
Moberly, Geo. 1803-1885. Bp. Salisbury. Relig-
ious writer. Pub. Dut.
Moir [moi'er], David Macbeth. 1798-1851. Scotch
poet and novelist.
Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa [Stewart], "Ennis
Scotch novelist. Author
Graham." 1841
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of the novels Hathercourt and Miss Bouverie, and
of numerous excellent juvenile works of which The
Cuckoo Clock, Carrots, and The Tapestry Room
are well-known examples. See The Spectator, Jan.
1880, Jan. 1881, and Fan. 1882. Pub. Har. Ho.
Mac. Rou.
Monboddo, Lord.
See Burnet, James.
Montagu, Chas. Earl of Halifax. 1661-1715. Poet.
Co-author with Prior of The City Mouse and the
Country Mouse, and author of miscellaneous poems.
See Johnson's Lives of the Poets.
Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth. 1720-1800. Founder of
the Blue Stocking Club and author of a once fa-
mous essay on the Genius of Shakespeare.
Doran's A Lady of the Last Century.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. 1690-1762.
See
Fa-
See
mous for her brilliant and satirical Letters.
Letters of, edited by Mrs. S. J. Hale, N. Y., 1856.
Montgomery [mont-gum-ĕr-i], James. 1771-1854.
Scotch poet. His verse is not strong, but some of
his hymns are general favorites. See Critical Es-
says, by A. K. H. Boyd. Pub. Hou. Rou.
Montgomery, Robert. 1808-1855. Poet. Author
Satan, etc. Style stilted, showy, and unnatural.
See Macaulay's Miscellaneous Essays.
Montrose, Marquis of.
See Grahame, James.
Moore, Edward. 1712-1757. Dramatist. Author
of the tragedy, The Gamester.
Moore, John. 1730-1802. Scotch novelist. Author
Zeluco, Edward, Mordaunt, etc. See Works, with
Memoir, 7 vols., Edinburgh, 1820.
Moore, Thomas. 1779-1852. Irish poet. Author
of Irish Melodies, which take high rank as lyrics,
Lalla Rookh, a vol. of brilliant and showy oriental
poetry, and of much other verse, as well as several
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prose works. Though by no means a great poet, he
has always been a popular one. See R. H. Mont-
gomery's Life of, 1850; also Earl Russell's edition
of Moore's Diary. Pub. Apl. Arm. Clx. Har. Hou.
Le. Lip. Por. Rou. Scr.
More, Hannah. 1745-1833. Dramatist and ethical
writer. Author of Percy, a drama, and of numerous
popular moral tales, of which The Shepherd of
Salisbury Plain is the most famous. See complete
works, 1853. See Lives by Shaw, Roberts, Thomp-
son, and Smith. Pub. Ca. Har. Lip.
More, Henry. 1614-1687. Philosopher. A writer
whose mystical theories are expressed in a clear,
limpid style.
More, Sir Thomas. 1485-1530. Philosopher. His
famous prose romance, The Utopia, embodies many
of his philosophical views. See Life by Sir James
Mackintosh. Pub. Mac.
Morell, Thomas. 1703-1784. Philologist. Author
of the text of the Oratorios of Joshua and Judas
Maccabæus.
Morgan, Lady Sydney Owenson.
1783-1859.
Irish novelist. Author Wild Irish Girl, Absentee-
ism, etc. A voluminous author, spirited but want-
ing in refinement.
Morier, James. 1780-1849. Oriental novelist.
Hajji Baba is his most noted work. Pub. Rou.
Morley, Henry. 1822
Author Hist. Eng.
Lit., Tables of Eng. Lit., Journal of a London Play-
goer,
Life of Palissy the Potter, etc. Pub. Cas.
Morley, John. 1838 Essayist and biographer.
Author Lives of Voltaire and Rousseau, Limits of the
Historic Method, On Compromise, Burke on Eng.
Men of Letters, etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Mac.
Morris, Wm.
1834
The Defence of Guine-
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vere, Life and Death of Jason, and The Earthly
Paradise are his chief poems. His verse is mainly
classical or mediæval in subject and epic in form.
See Stedman's Victorian Poets and Swinburne's
Essays and Studies. Pub. Rob.
Mortimer, Mrs. Favell Lee. 1802-1878. Religious
writer. Author Reading Without Tears, Peep of
Day Series, etc. Pub. Ca. Har. Hou.
Morton, Thomas. 1764-1838. Dramatist. Author
Speed the Plough, Secrets Worth Knowing, etc.
See Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1838.
Moss, Thomas. 1740-1808. Poet. Author of the
famous poem beginning "Pity the sorrows of a poor
Old Man."
Motherwell, Wm. 1797-1835. Scotch poet. Jeanie
Morrison, The Cavalier's Song, and others of his
ballads possess great lyric beauty. See edition 1849.
Mozley, James Bowling. 1813-1878. Theologian.
Author Lect. on the Miracles, On Subscription to
the Articles, Sermons, Essays, Historical, Theo-
logical, etc. A clear, masterly thinker. Pub. Dut.
Mozley, Thomas. 1806
Bro. to J. B. M.
Author Reminiscences of Oriel College and the Ox-
ford Movement. Pub. Hou.
Mudie [moo' di or mū' di], Robert. 1777-1842. Scotch
naturalist. Author of some 90 vols. mainly on nat-
ural history; British Birds is his most important
work. Pub. Har.
Müller, Friedrich Max. 1823
German phi-
lologist. Author Chips from a German Workshop,
Science of Lang., Hist. Ancient Sanskrit Lit., etc.
Pub. Mac. Scr.
Mulock, Dinah Maria. See Craik, Mrs.
Munday, Anthony. 1553-1633. Dramatist. See
Carew Hazlitt's Early English Literature.
Wipe Handbook of English Authors.
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Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey. 1792-1871. Ge-
ologist of note. See Memoirs of, by Geikie, 2 vols.,
London, 1874"
Mure, Wm. 1799-1860. Scotch historian. Author
Critical Hist., Lang. and Lit. of Ancient Greece,
The Calendar of the Zodiac of Ancient Egypt, etc.
Murphy, Arthur. 1730-1805. Dramatist. Of his
23 plays The Grecian Daughter and The Way to
Keep Him were the most popular.
Murray, Alexander. 1775-1813. Scotch philolo-
gist. Author Hist. European Languages.
Murray, Hugh. 1779-1846. Scotch geographer.
Author of the Encyclopedia of Geography, etc.
Pub. Har.
Myers, Ernest. 1844
Bro. to F. W. H. M. Poet.
Author of The Puritans, The Defence of Rome,
and other Poems, etc. Pub. Mac.
Myers, Frederic Wm. Henry. 1843
Poet and
littérateur. Author of St. Paul, a poem, The Re-
newal of Youth and other Poems, Wordsworth in
Eng. Men of Letters, and Essays Modern and
Classical. A thoughtful writer, possessing a grace-
ful and scholarly style. Pub. Har. Mac. Ran.
Nabbes, Thomas. 1600-1645. Dramatist.
Nairne, Baroness.
See Oliphant, Carolina.
Napier, Admiral Sir Chas. 1786-1860. Military
historian. Cousin to Sir C. J. N. Author Hist.
Baltic Campaign, etc. See Life and Correspon-
dence, 1862.
Napier, Gen. Sir Chas. James. 1782-1853. Author
Lights and Shadows of Military Life, Hist. Ionian
Islands, etc. See Life and Opinions of, 4 vols.,
London, 1857.
Napier, Capt. Henry Edward.
1789-1853.
His-
Handbook of English Authors.
ΙΟΙ
torian. Bro. to Sir C. J. N.
Author of a valuable
Hist. of Florence in 7 vols. Style easy and flowing.
Napier, John. 1550-1617. Scotch mathematical
writer. Inventor of logarithms.
Napier, Macvey. 1776-1847. Scotch writer. Edi-
tor of the supplement and 7th edition of the Encyc.
Brit. and for 17 years editor of the Edinburgh Rev.
Napier, Mark. 1798
Biographer. Author
Memorials of Montrose, Life and Times of Mon-
trose, etc.
Napier, Gen. Sir Wm. Francis Patrick. 1785-
1860. Military historian. Bro. to Sir. C. J. N.
and H. E. N. His great work is the Hist. of the
Peninsular War, a work of great value, possessing
a perennial charm. See H. Martineau's Biographi-
cal Sketches, and Life by H. A. Bruce, 1863. Pub.
Arm. Rou.
Nares, Edward. 1762-1841. Elements of General
Hist. and the novel, Thinks I to Myself, are among
his chief works.
Nares, Robert. 1753-1829. Critical and theological
writer. Cousin to E. N.
Nash, Thomas. 1577-1600.
Dramatist. Author
Summer's Last Will and Testament, and of many
brilliant satirical pamphlets. See edition of Pierre
Penniless, with Life of Nash by Collier, 1842.
Neville, Henry. 1620-1694. Political philosopher.
Author of Plato Redivivus, a dialogue concerning
government.
Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of. 1624-1673. An
untiring writer of tasteless works in verse and prose.
See Poems of, edited by E. Brydges, 1813.
Newcome, Wm. 1729-1800. Abp. Armagh. Theo-
logian. Author Harmony of the Gospels, etc.
Newman, Francis Wm. 1805
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writer. Author of Phases of Faith, etc. He has
written largely on religious topics from a rational-
istic standpoint.
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal. 1801
Theo-
logian. Bro. to F. W. N. Author Tract No. 90,
Parochial Sermons, Theory of Religious Belief,
The Grammar of Assent, Apologia Pro Vita Sua,
Poems, etc. The Apologia is one of the very finest
of autobiographies. Style clear, polished, and log-
ical. See Century Mag. June, 1882. Pub. Cath.
Newton, Sir Isaac. 1642-1727. Mathematical phi-
losopher. A writer of clear, comprehensive intellect,
Author of the Principia and a valuable treatise on
Optics, etc. See Brewster's Life of. Pub. Mac.
Newton, John. 1722-1807. Devotional writer. Co-
author with Cowper of the Olney Hymns.
Works of, London, 6 vols. 8vo, 1816.
Nichol, John. 1833
See
Scotch littérateur. Author
Sketch Am. Lit., the drama of Hannibal, Tables of
European Lit. and Hist., and a brilliant monograph
on Byron in Eng. Men of Letters. See Lit. World.
Feb. 24, 1883. Pub. Apl. Har.
Nichol, John Pringle. 1804-1859. Astronomer.
Author The Solar System, The Stellar Heavens,
Dict. Physical Sciences, etc.
Nicholas, Thomas. 1820-1879. Ethnologist and
historian. Author Pedigree of the Eng. People,
Hist of Wales, etc.
Nicholson, Wm. 1655-1727. Abp. Cashel. Anti-
quarian writer.
Nicol, Henry. 1845-1881. Philologist.
Hist. Eng. Sounds.
Author
Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris. 1799-1848. Gene-
alogist. Author Hist. Orders of Knighthood of
the Brit. Empire, etc.
Handbook of English Authors.
103
Nicoll, Robert. 1814-1837. Scotch poet.
Noel-Fearn, Henry [Christmas]. 1811-1868. Mis-
cellaneous writer. Author Science and History,
Preachers and Preaching, etc.
Norris, John. 1657-1711. Platonic philosopher.
Author Theory of the Ideal World, etc.
North, Christopher. See Wilson, John.
Norton, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan [Lady
Maxwell]. 1808-1877. Poet and novelist. Her
verse has much grace and intensity of feeling.
Bingen on the Rhine is her most quoted poem.
Pub. Har. Lip. Mac. Ran.
Norton, Thomas. 1532-1584.
Dramatist. Co-au-
thor with Sackville of the tragedy Ferrex and
Porrex, and assistant of Sternhold and Hopkins in
their metrical version of the Psalms.
Nugent, Lord. See Grenville, George.
Occam, Wm. of.
1270-1347.
Philosopher. De-
fender of the doctrine of Nominalism and the great-
est logician of the Middle Ages.
Occleve, Thos. c. 1370-1454. Poet. His verse has
little merit.
O'Hare, Kane. 1722-1782. Irish dramatist.
O'Keefe, John. 1747-1833. Irish dramatist. The
best of his numerous plays and operas, some of
which are still acted, is Wild Oats.
Oldham, John. 1653-1683. Poet. Author of Satires
against the Jesuits. Style spirited and forcible.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Oldmixon, John. 1673-1742. Dramatist and his-
torian. His plays and histories are of slight value,
and his chief title to remembrance is Pope's satire
upon him in The Dunciad.
Oldys, Wm. 1696-1761. Biographer and anti-
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quarian. Best known by his famous little poem,
The Fly and the Cup of Ale.
Oliphant, Carolina, Baroness Nairne. 1766-1845.
Scotch poet. Her songs, such as Land o'the Leal,
Caller Herrin', etc., take a high rank. See Complete
Works, with Life by C. Rogers, Edinburgh, 1869.
Oliphant, Laurence. 1829
Satirist and mis-
cellaneous writer. Author of Piccadilly, a Frag-
ment of Contemporaneous Biography, Tender Rec-
ollections of Irene McGillicuddy, Altiora Peto, etc.
Pub. Apl. Har.
Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret O. [Wilson]. 1828
Author of a long series of novels, all good, and
some very fine, and much well written biography.
Her style is even, her turns of expression felicitous
and her character drawing truthful. The Perpetual
Curate, Chronicles of Carlingford, Zaidee, Harry
Joscelyn, Son of the Soil, Lady Jane, The Little
Pilgrim, and the Literary Hist. of England are some
of her best books. Few authors have written so
much and so uniformly well. Pub. Apl. Har. Ho.
Lip. Mac. Por.
O'Meara, Barry Edward. 1780-1836. Napoleonic
writer. Author Letters from St. Helena, Memoirs
of Napoleon, Napoleon in Exile, etc. Pub. Arm.
Wid.
Opie, Mrs. Amelia [Alderson]. 1769–1853. Novelist
and poet. Father and Daughter is her best novel,
The Orphan Boy her most familiar poem. Style
simple and pathetic. See Miss Brightwell's Life
of, London, 1854, and H. Martineau's Biograph-
ical Sketches: Pub. Ca.
Orme, Robert.
ish in India, etc.
1728-1801. Historian. Hist. Brit-
O'Shaughnessy [o'shaw'ně-si], Arthur W. E. 1844-
Handbook of English Authors.
105
1881. Author Songs of a Worker, Lays of France,
Music and Moonlight, etc. See Stedman's Vic-
torian Poets, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edi-
tion, and Manhattan Mag., July, 1864.
Ossian. Mythical Keltic bard. See Macpherson,
James.
Ottley, Wm. Young. 1771-1836. Art writer. Au-
thor The Italian School of Design, Engravers and
their Works, etc.
Otway, Thomas. 1651-1685. Dramatist. A tragic
writer of great pathos. His greatest works, Venice
Preserved and The Orphan are still occasionally
acted. See Works with Life, by Thornton, 1813.
Ouida. See De la Ramé, Louisa.
Ousely [ooz'li], Sir Wm. 1771-1842. Orientalist.
Author Oriental Collections, Travels in Persia,
etc.
Overbury, Sir Thomas. 1581-1613. Poet and phi-
losopher. Characters, his chief work, contains an
exquisite and oft quoted description of A Fair and
Happy Milkmaid.
Owen, John. 1616-1683. Theologian. Style heavy
and labored. See edition of 1826 with Life. Pub.
P. B.
Owen, Richard. 1804
Scientific writer of
note. Author Lect. on Comparative Anatomy, etc.
Owen, Robert. 1771-1858.
1771-1858. Writer on social re-
forms. See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches.
Owenson, Sydney. See Morgan, Lady.
Oxenden, Ashton. 1808
Bp. Montreal. Re-
ligious writer. Author Pathway of Safety, Our
Church and her Services, Thoughts for Lent, etc.
Pub. Dut. Ran. Wh.
Oxenford, John. 1812-1877. Dramatist and critic.
Translator of Goethe's Autobiography.
!
106
Handbook of English Authors.
Paley, Frederic Apthorp. 1817
Classical
scholar. Grandson to W. P. Editor and trans-
lator of numerous classical works.
Paley, Wm. 1743-1805. Moral philosopher. Au-
thor Natural Theology, Elements of Moral and Po-
litical Philosophy, etc. See Complete Works, 4
vols., London, 1858, biography by Meadley, 1839.
Pub. Ca. Nel. Har.
Palgrave [pawl'grāv], Sir Francis. 1788-1861. His-
torian. Author Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Rise
and Progress of the Eng. Commonwealth, Anglo-
Saxon Period, Hist. of Normandy and of England,
etc. Pub. Mac.
Palgrave, Francis Turner.
1824
Poet and
critic. Son to F. P. Author Essays on Art, Hymns,
Lyrical Poems, etc. See Stedman's Victorian Poets.
Pub. Mac. Por. Ran. Rou.
Palgrave, Wm. Gifford. 1826
Traveller. Son
to F. P. Author Essays on the Eastern Question,
Dutch Guiana, Herman Agha, etc. Pub. Ho. Mac.
Palmer, Sir Roundell [Baron Selborne]. 1812
Author of the Book of Praise. Pub. Mac.
Pardoe [par'dō], Julia.
1806-1862. Novelist and
historical writer. Author Court and Reign of Fran-
cis I., etc. Pub. Har. Pet.
Paris, Matthew. ?
1259. Historical writer.
See Bohn's Antiquarian Library.
Park, Mungo. 1771-1805. Scotch explorer and
writer of travels. Pub. Har.
Parker, John Henry. 1806-1884. Writer on Archi-
tecture. Author Glossary of Arch., Introduction to
the Study of Gothic Arch., Domestic Arch. of the
Middle Ages, etc., Pub. Lit. Dut.
Parnell [par'nell], Thomas. 1669-1718. Poet. Au-
thor of The Hermit, etc. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 3. Pub. Hou.
Handbook of English Authors.
107
Parr, Harriet ["Holme Lee "]. 1828
Novel-
ist. Author Sylvan Holt's Daughter, Kathie
Brande, For Richer for Poorer, etc. Pub. Har. Por.
Parr, Mrs. Louisa. 18-
Novelist. Author
Dorothy Fox, Adam and Eve, etc. Pub. Ho. Lip.
Parr, Samuel. 1747-1825. Classical scholar and
critic. See Field's Memoirs of, 1828.
Pater, Walter H. 1838
Author Studies on
the Hist. of the Renaissance. Pub. Mac.
Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Dighton. 1823
Poet. Author Angel in the House, Faithful For-
ever, and other vols. of rather commonplace verse.
See Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub. Dut. Mac.
Pattison, Mark. 1813-1884. Author Tendencies of
Religious Thought in England, a noted Biography
of Isaac Casaubon, Milton in Eng. Men. of Letters,
etc. Pub. Har.
Payn, James. 1830
Novelist. A writer of
excellent stories; Lost Sir Massingberd, and By
Proxy, being among the best. Pub. Apl.Har. Pet.
Peacock, Thos. Love. 1785-1866. Novelist and
poet. Maid Marian, Headlong Hall, etc., are lively,
witty novels. See Complete Works edited by Cole,
1875. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.
Pearson, Charles Henry. 1830
Historian.
Author Hist. of England in the Early and Middle
Ages. Pub. Put.
Pearson, John. 1613-1686. Bp. Chester. Theo-
logian. His Exposition of the Creed is still a stand-
ard theological work. Pub. Apl. Mac.
Pecock, Reginald. 1390-1460. Bp. Chichester.
Theologian. Author of The Repressor, etc. See
Morley's Eng. Writers, vol. 2.
Peele, George. 1552-1598. Dramatist and poet.
Author Arraignment of Paris, Absalom, Edward I.,
108
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etc. In places Peele's verse is very musical. See
Lamb's Dramatic Poets; also Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 1, and Ulrici's Dramatic Art.
Penn, Wm. 1644-1718. No Cross No Crown, his
most noted work, sets forth the doctrines of the
Quakers. See Lives, by H. Dixon, Janney, and
Wirt.
Pennant, Thomas.
1726-1798. Antiquarian and
writer on natural history.
Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley [chum'li]. 1836
Poet. Author of Puck on Pegasus, Pegasus
Re-saddled, etc., and several works on Angling.
Pub. Rou.
Pepys [peeps or pĕps], Samuel. 1633-1703. Author
of a famous Diary presenting an extremely lifelike
picture of the time of Charles II. See Samuel
Pepys and the World he Lived In, by Henry
B. Wheatly. See Braybrooke edition, pub. Apl.;
Bright edition, London, pub. Bi.
Percy, Thos. 1728-1811. Bp. Dromore. Poet and
editor of the famous Reliques of Ancient Eng.
Poetry, a work of great influence upon subsequent
Eng. verse. See Hales's and Furnivall's edition,
1868. Pub. Por. Rou.
Phillimore, John George. 1809-1865. Jurist. Au-
thor Hist. Law of Evidence, Principles and Maxims
of Jurisprudence. Pub. Mac.
Phillimore, Robert Joseph. 1810
Jurist.
Bro. to J. G. P. Author Civil and Canon Law, Eccl.
Law Church of England, etc. Pub. Jo.
Philips, Ambrose. 1675-1749. Dramatist. A writer
of trifling merit, who is chiefly remembered on ac-
count of Pope's vindictive satire upon him.
Philips, John. 1676-1708.
1676-1708. Poet. Author of the
mock-heroic poem The Splendid Shilling.
Handbook of English Authors.
109
Philips, Mrs. Katharine. 1631-1664. Poet. Known
as "The Matchless Orinda."
Phillipps, Halliwell. See Halliwell-Phillipps.
Pickering, Ellen. ?
1843. Novelist. Author
Who Shall be Heir, Secret Foe, etc. Pub. Har.
Pindar, Peter. See Wolcott, John.
Pinkerton, John. 1758-1826. Scotch historian and
antiquary. His Hist. of Scotland and other works
are fiercely controversial in tone.
(Piozzi [pe-ot'see], Mrs. Hester [Lynch].
Mrs.
Thrale. 1740-1821. Author Anecdotes of Dr.
Johnson, etc., and the well-known poem The Three
Warnings. See Autobiography, Letters, etc., 1861.
Pitt, Wm., Lord Chatham. 1708-1778. Statesman.
His numerous Speeches rank among the finest of
their class.
Planché [plon-sha'], James Robinson. 1796-1880.
Dramatist. A prolific writer of dramas, fairy ex-
travaganzas and farces; Prince Charming, Yellow
Dwarf, etc. See Bric-a-brac Series, 1st vol., and
The Biograph, March, 1880.
Plumptre, Edward Hayes.
1821
Poet and
translator. Author Lazarus and other Poems, etc.,
Byways of Scripture, etc., and translations of Soph-
ocles and Æschylus. His verse is didactic in char-
acter. Pub. Dut. Mac. Rou.
Pole, Reginald, Cardinal. 1500-1558. Theological
writer.
Pollock, Frederick. 1845
Jurist.
Author
Principles of Contract, Digest of Law of Partner-
ship, Spinoza: his Life and Philosophy, and The
Land Laws in Macmillan's Eng. Citizen Series.
Pub. Mac. Th.
Pollok, Robert. 1799-1827. Scotch poet. Author
of The Course of Time, a heavy, didactic, blank-
verse poem, once very popular. Pub. Apl. Ca. Clx.
IIO
Handbook of English Authors.
Pomfret, John. 1667-1703. Poet. Author of The
Choice. See Life, by Dr. Johnson.
Poole, John. 1786-1872. Dramatist and humorist.
Author of the comedy, Paul Pry, Little Pedlington,
a vol. of witty sketches, The Comic Sketch-Book,
etc.
Poole, Matthew. 1624-1679. Biblical Commenta-
tor. Pub. Ca.
Pope, Alexander. 1688-1744. A correct, polished
poet whose verse lacks sentiment and feeling. The
heroic couplet is his usual measure. His transla-
tion of Homer, though a fine effort, lacks the fresh-
ness and spontaneity of its original. His chief
poems are Essay on Man, Moral Essays, The Dun-
ciad, a talented but terrible satire, and The Rape
of the Lock, a brilliant, glittering piece of literary
trifling. See editions of, by A. W. Ward, Cowden-
Clarke, and Rossetti. See Lowell's My Study Win-
dows; also Leslie Stephen's Pope in Eng. Men of
Letters. Pub. Apl. Le. Mac. Rou.
Porson, Richard. 1759-1808. Classical scholar and
writer of note. See Watson's Life of, 1861.
Porter, Anna Maria. 1781-1832. Novelist. Don
Sebastian is perhaps the best of her numerous
novels.
Porter, Jane. 1776-1850. Novelist. Sister to A.
M. P. The famous romances Thaddeus of War-
saw and Scottish Chiefs are her chief works. Pub.
Apl. Le. Lip. Por. Sad.
Powell, Baden. 1796-1860. Philosopher. Author
Hist. Nat. Philosophy, Spirit of Inductive Philos-
ophy, Study and Evidence of Christianity, etc.
Poynter, E. Frances. 18-
Novelist. Au-
thor My Little Lady, Ersilia, Among the Hills, etc.
Pub. Ho.
Handbook of English Authors.
III
Praed [prād], Winthrop Mackworth. 1802-1839. Qutlur
Poet. A writer of pleasing verse, of which the
Belle of the Ball is a good example. See Completeg detet
Works, edited by Sir Geo. Young. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 4. Pub. Arm:-
Price, Bonamy. 1807
Political economist.
bring man
Author Practical Political Economy, Currency and Charnclas
Banking, Principles of Currency, etc. Pub. Apl.
Prideaux [prĭd'o, or prĭd-ŭx], Humphrey. 1648–
1724. Theologian. Noted for his Connection of
the Old and New Testaments. Pub. Har. Mac.
Priestley, Joseph. 1733-1804. Theologian and sci-
entist. Author of over 300 books on chemistry,
theology, metaphysics, etc. See Works of, 1824,
26 vols. See Life of, by Corry.
Pringle, Thomas. 1789-1834. Scotch poet. His
best poem is the spirited Afar in the Desert. See
Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland.
Prior, Matthew. 1664-1721. Poet. A sprightly
writer whose light and airy style is seen to best ad-
vantage in his comic narrative poems. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 3. Pub. Hou.
Procter, Adelaide Anne. 1825-1864. Poet. Dau.
to B. W. P. Author Legends and Lyrics. See
Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub. Hou.
Procter, Bryan Waller, "Barry Cornwall." 1790-
1874. Poet. A writer of somewhat over-praised
lyric verse. The tragedy of Mirandola is his finest
dramatic effort. See Autobiography. Compare
Stedman's Victorian Poets and Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 4.
Proctor Richard Anthony. 1837

Astrono-
mer. Author Other Worlds than Ours, Our Place
Among the Infinities, etc. Pub. Apl. Arm. Lip.
Put.
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1
Prout, Father. See Mahoney, Francis.
Prynne, Wm. 1600-1669. Political and antiquarian
writer.
Pugin [pū-jin], Augustus. 1792-1832. Architect-
ural writer of note.
Pugin, Augustin Welby Northmore.
Architect.
1812-1852.
Son to A. P. Author Examples of
Gothic Architecture, Glossary of Eccl. Ornament,
See Ferrey's Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin
and Augustus Pugin, 1861.
etc.
Purchas, Samuel.
piler of travels.
1577-1628. Chronicler and com-
Pusey [pū'zi], Edward Bouverie. 1800-1882. The-
ologian. Author Hist. Councils of the Church,
Doctrine of the Real Presence, etc, and many of
the Tracts for the Times. The earlier Ritualists
were named Puseyites. His influence greatly deep-
ened the religious feeling of the Anglican Church.
See Life, by Liddon. Pub. Apl.
Pusey, Philip Edward. 18 1880. Theological
writer. Son to E. B. P.
Puttenham, George. 1530- c. 1600. Author of The
Art of Eng. Poesie.
Pye, Henry James. 1745-1813. Poet. Author of
very indifferent verse.
Quarles, Francis. 1592-1644. Poet. An ingenious
versifier, very popular in his own day, and now
chiefly known by his Divine Emblems and a vol. of
prose maxims entitled Enchiridion.
Quarles, John. 1624-1665. Poet. Son to F. Q.
Author Divine Meditations, etc. His verse is
marked by the same fantastic, labored conceits as
that of his father.
Quincey, Thos. de. See De Quincey.
Handbook of English Authors.
113
Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann [Ward]. 1764-1823. Novelist.
A writer of powerful sensational romances, the best
known of which are The Mysteries of Udolpho
and Romance of the Forest. See Memoir of, by
Talfourd, and Memoir of, by Miss Rossetti. Pub.
Clx. Rou.
Raleigh [raw'li], Sir Walter. 1552-1618. His chief
work, The Hist. of the World, has great literary
merit. See Lives, by Whitehead, Oldys, Birch,
Cayley, Thomson, Tytler, Napier, St. John, and
Edwards. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1.
Ramsay [răm'zĭ], Allan. 1686-1758. Scotch poet.
Author of the pastoral poem The Gentle Shepherd.
See edition 1800, with Life; also Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 3.
Ramsay, Edward Bannerman. 1793-1872. Author
of the famous Reminiscences of Scottish Life and
Character, Sermons, Pulpit Table-Talk, etc. See
23d edition of the Reminiscences, 1874, and Memo-
rials and Recollections, by C. Rogers.
Randolph, Thos. 1605-1634. Poet and dramatist.
His works are inferior in quality. The Jealous
Lover is one of his plays. See Works of, edited by
Carew Hazlitt, 1875, and Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 2.
Rankine, Wm. John Macquorn. 1820-1872. Writer
on mechanics. Author Applied Mechanics, The
Steam Engine, Songs and Fables, etc. See Mem-
oir, by P. G. Tait. Pub. Apl. Mac.
Rawlinson, George Henry. 1815
Historian.
Author The Five Great Monarchies of the Eastern
World, Manual of Ancient Hist., The Seventh
Great Oriental Monarchy, etc. Pub. Apl. Do. Est.
Har. Mac.
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke. 1810
Archæological writer of note. Bro. to G. H. R.
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Ray, John.
1628–1705. Naturalist. Author of the
Historia Plantarum, etc. See Life, by Wm. Der-
ham, 1760.
Reach, Angus Bethune. 1821-1856. Novelist and
miscellaneous writer. Author of Leonard Lindsay,
The Natural Hist. of Bores and Humbugs, The
Comic Bradshaw, etc. See Chas. Mackay's Recol-
lections. Pub. Rou.
Reade, Charles.
1814-1884. Novelist. A writer
of strong genius, whose style is piquant and ag-
gressive. Put Yourself in his Place, Griffith Gaunt,
The Cloister and the Hearth, and Christie Johnstone
are among his best novels. See Atlantic Monthly,
Aug. 1864. Pub. Har.
Redding, Cyrus. 1785-1870.
Miscellaneous writer.
Author of A Wife and Not a Wife, Remarkable
Misers, Past Celebrities, etc.
Reeve, Clara.
1725-1803.
Novelist. Author Old
English Baron, etc.
Reeve, Lovell. 1814-1865. Conchologist. Author
Conchologia Iconica, Elements of Conchology,
Conchologia Systematica, etc. Pub. Put.
Reeves, Mrs. Helen Buckingham [Mathers]. 1852
Novelist. Author of Cherry Ripe, Comin'
thro' the Rye, My Lady Green Sleeves, As He
Comes Up the Stair, Land o' the Leal, Sam's Sweet-
heart, etc. Pub. Apl.
Reid, Mayne. 1818-1883.
venture for young readers.
Reid, Thomas. 1710-1796.
Author of tales of ad-
Pub. Rou. Sh.
Scotch metaphysician.
Author Inquiry into the Human Mind, Essays on
the Intellectual Powers, etc. See Hamilton's edi-
tion of Reid, 1846.
Reynolds, Frederick. 1765-1841. Dramatist. Au-
thor of nearly 100 plays, of which The Dramatist
and Folly as it Flies are the best.
Handbook of English Authors.
115
Reynolds, George W. M.
1879. Novelist.
Author Mysteries of London, Reformed Highway-
man, etc. Style sensational, and influence perni-
cious. Pub. Di. Pet.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. 1723-1792. Artist. Author
Discourse on Painting. See Malone's edition of,
1797. See Lives by Malone, Northcote, Farrington,
Cotton, and Leslie, Mrs. Thackeray-Ritchie's Miss
Angel, and Reynolds as a Portrait Painter, by
7. E. Collins.
Ricardo [re-kar'do], David.
economist.
1792-1823. Political
Author High Price of Bullion, Prin-
ciples of Political Economy and Taxation, etc. See
McCulloch's edition, 1846.
Rice, James. 1843-1982. Novelist. Colleague of
Walter Besant, and author with him of Sweet Nelly
My Heart's Delight, Golden Butterfly, and other
novels. See Besant, Walter. Pub. Har.
Richards, Alfred Bate. 1820-1876. Poet and drama-
tist. Author of Cromwell, Vandyck, and other
dramas, Medea, and other vols. of poems, and the
novel So Very Human.
Richardson, Chas. 1775-1865. Lexicographer. Au-
thor of an Eng. Dict. and The Study of Language.
Richardson, Samuel. 1689-1761. Novelist. Au-
thor Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles
Grandison. The slow movement of these stories
does not appeal readily to modern taste, but they
display a wonderful knowledge of the workings of
the human heart. Clarissa, the best, is a fine piece
of realism. See Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Novel-
ists and their Styles, and Leslie Stephen's Hours
in a Library. Pub. Ho. Rou.
Richmond, Leigh. 1772-1827.
The Dairyman's Daughter, etc.
Moralist. Author
Pub. Ca. Phi. Rou.
116
Handbook of English Authors.
Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte Eliza Lawson. 18–
Novelist. Author George Geith, A Life's Assize,
The Senior Partner, etc. Pub. Clx. Est. Har. Pet.
Riddell, Henry Scott. 1798-1870. Scotch poet.
See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland.
Riddell, Mrs. J. H. See Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte.
Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella. See Thackeray-
Ritchie.
Ritchie, Leitch. 1801-1865. Miscellaneous writer.
Author of Headpieces and Tailpieces, Wearyfoot
Common, Romance of French History, etc.
Ritson, Joseph. 1752-1803. Antiquary and critic.
Roberts, Margaret.
Novelist. Author
Mademoiselle Mori, Denise, The Atelier du Lys, In
the Olden Time, On the Edge of the Storm, Osé,
Tempest tossed. Madame Fontenoy, Summerleigh
Manor, etc. Pub. Ho.
1833
Robertson, Frederick Wm. 1816-1853. Religious
writer. Author 4 vols. of sermons, which rank
among the finest religious utterances of the age.
See Life, by Stopford Brooke, and Blackwoods Mag.,
Aug. 1862. Pub. Dut. Har.
Robertson, James Burton. 1800-1877. Historical
writer. Author Lect. on Various Subjects of An-
cient and Modern Hist., etc.
Robertson, James Craigie. 1813-1882. Ecclesi-
astical historian. Author Hist. of the Christian
Church, Biography of Thomas a Becket, etc.
Robertson, Thos. Wm. 1829-1871. Dramatist.
Author David Garrick, Ours, Caste, M. P., and
other lively and popular plays.
Robertson, Wm. 1721-1793. Scotch historian.
Author Hist. Scotland, Hist. Reign of Charles V.,
Hist. Discovery of America, etc. His style is pic-
turesque, but his statements are sometimes inaccu-
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rate.
Har.
Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances. 1857
See Prescott's Robertson's Charles V. Pub.
Poet
and littérateur. Author of A Handful of Honey-
suckle, The Crowned Hippolytus, Rural England,
and Emily Brontë, in Famous Women Series, etc.
Pub. Rob.
Robinson, Frederick Wm.
1830
Novelist.
Author of A Bridge of Glass, As Long as she Lived,
Poor Zeph, Her Face was her Fortune, Little Kate
Kirby, Second-Cousin Sarah, Stern Necessity, True
to Herself, etc. Pub. Har.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. 1775-1867. He left an
entertaining Diary, published in 1869. Pub. Hou.
Mac.
Robinson, Mrs. Mary. 1758–1800.
1758-1800. Poet and ac-
tress. Known to her contemporaries as "Perdita,
the Fair."
Rochester, Earl of See Wilmot, John.
Rogers, Charles. 1825
Scotch antiquarian
writer. Author of A Century of Scottish Life,
Boswelliana, Scotland: Social and Domestic, etc.
Rogers, Henry. 1810-1877. Critic. Author Eclipse
of Faith, Reason and Faith, etc. Pub. Rou. Scr.
Rogers, Samuel. 1763-1855. Poet. Author Pleas-
ures of Memory, a fine though labored production,
Italy, etc. See Hazlitt's Eng. Poets. Pub. Lip.
Romilly, Sir Samuel. 1757-1818. Jurist. Author
of Speeches, etc. See Autobiography, 1840.
Roscoe, Henry. 1800-1836. Son to W. R. Au-
thor Lives of Eminent Lawyers, etc. Pub. Jo.
Roscoe, Thos. 1791-1871. Son to W. R. Trans-
lator of important Italian works.
Roscoe, Wm. 1753-1831. Historian. Author Lives
of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X., etc. A careful,
118
Handbook of English Authors.
painstaking writer, whose works, written in an easy,
flowing style, are standard of their kind. See Life
of, by Henry Roscoe.
Roscommon, Earl of. See Dillon, Wentworth.
Rose, George. "Arthur Sketchley." 1830-1882.
Littérateur. Best known by his humorous Mrs.
Pub. Rou.
Brown sketches.
Rose, Henry John.
Rose, Hugh James.
Bro. to preceding.
Rose, Wm. Stewart.
lator of Ariosto.
1801-1873.) Authors of a Gen-
1795-1838.eral Biographical
Dict., etc.
1775-1843. Poet. Trans-
Ross, Alexander. 1699-1784. Scotch poet. Best
known by his ballad Woo'd and Married and a'.
See Irving's Scottish Writers.
Rose, Wm. 1762-1790.
1762-1790. Scotch pastoral poet. His
Praise of the Highland Maid is one of his best
poems. See Grant Wilson's Poetry of Scotland.
Ross-Church, Mrs. Florence [Marryatt]. 1837
Novelist. Author Her Lord and Master,
The Prey of the Gods, No Intentions, etc. Pub.
Har.
Rossetti [ros-set'tee], Christina Georgina. 1830
Poet. Author of The Pageant, Sonnet of
Sonnets, Goblin Market, etc. Style serious and
earnest. See Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub.
Mac. Rob.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
1828-1882. Poet and
artist. Bro. to C. G. R. A writer of the so-called
Pre-Raphaelite school, whose verse is passionate and
musical. Sister Helen, The Blessed Damozel, and
Rose Mary are his most striking poems. See Sted-
man's Victorian Poets, Swinburne's Essays and
Studies, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition,
Essays Modern, by F. W. H. Myers, Wm. Sharp's
Handbook of English Authors.
119
Record and Study of Rossetti, Cornhill Mag. Feb.
1883, Contemporary Rev. Feb. 1883, Harper's Mag.
Nov. 1882, and English Illus. Mag. Oct. 1883.
Pub. Rob.
Rossetti, Maria Francesca. 1827-1875. Commen-
tator on Dante. Sister to two preceding. Author
The Shadow of Dante, etc. Pub. Rob.
Rossetti, Wm. Michael. 1829
Biographer
and critic. Author Fine Art, etc. Bro. to three
preceding. Pub. Mac.
Rowe [ro], Nicholas.
1673-1718. Dramatist and
Shakespearean editor. Author Jane Shore, Fair
Penitent, etc. His dramas are melancholy, but
never licentious, like those of his contemporaries.
Rowley, Wm. fl. c. 1625. Dramatist. Colleague
of Dekker and Ford in the Witch of Edmonton, and
of Massinger and Middleton in the Old Law.
Roy, William. fl. c. 1525. Poet. Author of a sin-
gular satire upon Wolsey and the clergy, entitled
Read me and be not Wroth, for I say Nothing but
Troth.
Roydon, Matthew. fl. c. 1585. Poet. Author of
the beautiful Lament for Astrophel, an elegy upon
Sir Philip Sidney.
Ruskin, John. 1819
Art critic. Author
Modern Painters, Stones of Venice, Seven Lamps
of Architecture, Sesame and Lilies, Fors Clavigera,
etc. Style original, masterly, and of rare beauty.
Its chief defect is a vein of petulance and intoler-
ance, which is strongest in his latest books. Pub.
Wil.
Russell, John, Earl. 1792-1878. Statesman. Au-
thor Causes of the French Revolution, Life and
Times of Chas. James Fox, Establishment of the
Turks in Europe, etc. Pub. Rob.
120
Handbook of English Authors.
Russell, John Scott. 1808
Engineer. Author
Modern System of Naval Architecture, a work of
great practical value. Pub. Apl.
Russell, Michael. 1781-1848. Bp. Glasgow. Scotch
historian.
Russell, Lady Rachel. 1636-1723. Her Letters are
of much literary and historical value. See Earl
Russell's edition, 1854.
Russell, Wm.
1741-1793. Scotch historian.
thor Hist. Modern Europe, etc. Pub. Har.
Russell, Wm. Clark. 1844
Au--
Marine novelist.
Author Wreck of the Grosvenor, A Sailor's Sweet-
heart, An Ocean Free Lance, Jack's Courtship,
Little Loo, etc. Style original and spirited. Pub.
Har.
Russell, Wm. Howard. 1821
Journalist.
Author Hist. of the Crimean War, Diary North and
South, Diary in India, Hesperothen, etc. Pub. Har.
Rou.
Ryle, John Charles. 1816
Bp. Liverpool.
Author Expository
Pub. Ca. Phi. Ran.
A popular religious writer.
Thoughts on the Gospels, etc.
Rymer, Thos. 1638-1714. Antiquary and critic.
Author of Edgar, a play, The Tragedies of the
Last Age Considered, etc., and compiler of Rymer's
Fœdera, a collection of treatises, etc.
Sackville, Chas., Earl of Dorset. 1637-1705. Poet.
Author of the bright, lively song To all you Ladies
now on Land. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Sackville, Thos., Earl of Dorset and Lord Buck-
hurst. 1536-1608. Poet. Author of the Induc-
tion and one tale of the Mirror for Magistrates, and,
with Thos. Norton, of the tragedy of Gorboduc.
See edition 1820.
Handbook of English Authors.
121
1780-1830. Author of The
Sadler, Michael Thos.
Law of Population, etc.
Sainsbury, Wm. Noel.
1825
Editor of Co-
lonial Calendar of State Papers, America and West
Indies, 1574-1668, etc.
St. John, Bayle. 1822-1859. Miscellaneous writer.
Son to J. A. St. John. Author Village Life in
Egypt, Memoirs of St. Simon, The Turks in Europe,
etc.
St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke. 1678-
1751. Political essayist. His Letter to Sir Wm.
Windham [a voľ. of 300 pages] is his chief work.
St. John, Horace Roscoe. 1832. Son to J. A.
St. John. Author The Indian Archipelago, Hist.
British Conquests in India, etc.
St. John, James Augustus. 1801-1875. Miscella-
neous writer. Author of The Anatomy of Society,
The Nemesis of Power, Manners and Customs of
Ancient Greece, etc.
St. John, Percy Bolingbroke. 1821
Writer
of tales of adventure. Son to J. A. St. John. Au-
thor The Arctic Crusoe, The Creole Bride, The Red
Queen, etc.
St. John, Spenser. 1826
Son to J. A. St.
John. Author Life in the Forests of the Far West,
etc.
Saintsbury, Geo. Warner. 1845
Littérateur.
Author Dryden, in Eng. Men of Letters, Primer of
French Lit., etc. Pub. Har. Mac.
Sala, George Augustus. 1828
Novelist,
essayist, and journalist. Author Quite Alone, Twice
Round the Clock, Paris Herself Again, etc. Pub.
Fu. Har. Rou.
Sale, George. 1680-1736. Orientalist. Translator
of the Koran. Pub. Lip.
122 Handbook of English Authors.
Sanderson, Robert. 1587-1663. Bp. Salisbury.
Theological writer of great learning. Pub. Mac.
Sandys, George. 1577-1644. Poet and traveler.
Translator of Ovid. See Tyler's Am. Lit. vol. 1.
Sartoris, Mrs. Adelaide [Kemble]. 1816-1879.
Author of A Week in a French Country House, a
work of great freshness and beauty, and of Medusa
and Other Tales.
Savage, Marmion.
1872. Irish novelist. Au-
thor of The Bachelor of the Albany, The Woman
of Business, Reuben Medlicott, etc.
Pub. Apl.
Poet. A writer of
languid verse, and held in remembrance mainly by
Johnson's Biography of him.
Savage, Richard. 1698-1743.
Saville, George, Marquess of Halifax. 1630-1695.
Political writer. The literary merit of his treatises
is considerable.
Saville, Sir Henry. 1549-1622. Antiquarian.
Editor of a noted edition of Chrysostom, 1613.
Sawyer, Wm.
1828
Poet. Author of A
Year of Song, The Legend of Phillis, etc.
Sayce, Archibald Henry. 1846
Philologist.
Author of An Assyrian Grammar, Principles of
Comparative Philology, Introduction to the Science
of Language, etc. Pub. Scr.
Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth. c. 1814-
c. 1879. Welsh writer. Translator of The Mabi-
nogion.
Scot, Sir Alexander.
Al. c. 1562. Scotch poet.
His verse is amatory in tone. See edition by David
Laing, 1821. See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland.
Scott, John. 1730-1783. Scotch poet. His pro-
ductions are flavorless and poor.
Scott, Michael. 1789-1835. Novelist. Author Tom
Cringle's Log, etc.
Handbook of English Authors.
123
Scott, Sir Michael. fl. c. 1250. Scotch philosopher.
Scott, Robert. 1811
Classical scholar. One
of the editors of Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon.
Scott, Thomas. 1747-1821. Commentator. Author
Bible Commentary, etc. Pub. Lip.
Scott, Sir Walter. 1771-1832. Scotch novelist and
poet. Author of a long series of romances, begin-
ning with Waverley, in 1814, and ending with Anne
of Geierstein, in 1829. S. first made the novel a
really great power in life as well as in literature.
The flow of his narrative is always animated and in-
fused with a kindly spirit. Guy Mannering, Ivanhoe,
Old Mortality, and Quentin Durward are among the
best of his novels. The Lady of the Lake, Marmion,
and Lay of the Last Minstrel are fine narrative po-
ems, filled with vivid descriptions of Scotch scenery.
See Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Novelists and Their
Styles, and Hutton's Scott, in Eng. Men of Letters.
See also The Waverley Dict., by May Rogers.
Scott, Wm. Bell. 1811
Poet and art writer.
Author The Year of the World, Life of Albert
Dürer, etc. See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland.
Pub. Rou.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry. 1813
Biblical
scholar. Author of a Plain Introduction to the
Criticism of the New Testament, and editor of a
Greek Testament, The Cambridge Paragraph Bible,
etc. Pub. Ho.
Sedley, Sir Chas. 1639-1701. Lyric and dramatic
poet. S. wrote the comedy of The Mulberry Gar-
den. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Seeley, John Robert. 1834
Author Ecce
Homo, Lect. and Essays, Roman Imperialism, etc.
Style clear and strong. See Myers's Essays, Mod-
ern. Pub. Mac. Rob.
124
Handbook of English Authors.
Selden, John. 1584-1654. Antiquarian.
Author
Titles of Honor, Hist. of Titles, etc. A man of
wide learning, whose Table-Talk is his best known
work. See Lives, by Wilkins, 1726, Aiken, 1773,
and Johnson, 1835.
Selwyn, Geo. Augustus. 1809-1878. Bp. Lichfield.
Author Tribal Analysis of the Bible, Are Cathedral
Institutions Useless? etc. Pub. Mac.
Senior, Nassau Wm. 1790-1864. Political econo-
mist. Author Lect. on Population, Essays on Fic-
tion, etc.
Settle, Elkanah. 1648-1724. Dramatist. A writer
of trifling merit but the rival of Dryden in his time.
Seward, Anna. 1747-1809. Poet. Although called
in her day "the Swan of Lichfield,” her verse is
weakly sentimental and commonplace.
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing. 1815
Poet and
novelist. Author Amy Herbert, Margaret Percival,
etc. A writer of excellent stories, which have a
strong High Church flavor. Pub. Apl. Dut. Har.
Ho.
Sewell, Wm.
1805-1874. Religious writer. Bro.
to E. M. S. Author of Christian Morals, etc.
Shadwell, Thos. 1640-1692. Dramatist. Author
of 17 plays, but chiefly remembered as the butt of
Dryden's satire MacFlecknoe.
Shaftesbury, 3d Earl of. See Cooper, Anthony
Ashley.
Shairp, John Campbell. 1819
Scotch es-
sayist. Author Culture and Religion, Aspects of
Poetry, Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, Poetic
Interpretation of Nature, Burns, in Eng. Men of
Letters, etc. Pub. Har. Hou.
Shakespeare, Wm. 1564-1616. The world's great-
est dramatist. Author of 37 plays, in two of which,
Handbook of English Authors.
125
Henry VIII. and Two Noble Kinsmen, Fletcher is
supposed to have had a hand. The others are
King John. Richard II., Richard III., the two parts
of Henry IV., Henry V., the three parts of Henry
VI., all historical plays; the tragedies, Hamlet,
Macbeth, Othello, Lear, Antony and Cleopatra,
Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Cæsar, Romeo
and Juliet, and Troilus and Cressida; and the
comedies, or tragi-comedies, Midsummer Night's
Dream, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labor's Lost,
Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well,
Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merry
Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Winter's
Tale, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Pericles, and Cym-
beline. S. was also the author of the poems Lucrece,
Venus and Adonis, and 154 Sonnets. No writings,
save the Scriptures, have ever moved the world like
those of Shakespeare, which appeal to every emo-
tion in the mind of man. He has no equals; there
are none with whom he may be compared. Among
the best complete Am. editions are White's River-
side, pub. Hou.; Rolfe's, pub. Har.; and Hudson's,
pub. Gi.
See also Furness's Variorum Macbeth,
Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet, pub. Lip.
Sharpe, Samuel. 1800-1881. Historian. Author
Hist Egypt, Hist. Hebrew Nation and Lit., Texts
from the Bible Explained by Ancient Monuments,
etc. See Life by F. W. Clayden.
Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckingham. 1649–1720.
Author Essay on Poetry, a poem in heroic measure,
polished and prosaic.
Sheil [sheel], Richard Lalor. 1791-1851. Irish
dramatist. Author Evadne, The Apostate, Sketches
of the Irish Bar, etc. See Biographies, by McNevin, .
1845, and McCulloch, 1855. Pub. Arm.
126 Handbook of English Authors.
Shelley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. 1797-
1851. Novelist. Wife to P. B. S. Author Fran-
kenstein, a repulsive but powerful romance, Val-
perga, Perkin Warbeck, etc.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe [bish].
1792-1822. Poet.
An imaginative genius of the highest order. Author
of Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, The
Cenci, etc. Some of his best work is seen in the
Adonais, an elegy upon Keats, and the Ode to a
Skylark, while all his poems possess an ethereal
beauty quite unlike anything else in literature. See
Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1863, Macmillan's Mag.
June, 1861, Shelley and his Writings, by C. S.
Middleton, Symonds' Shelley, in Eng. Men. of Let-
ters, and Swinburne's Essays and Studies. Pub.
Lit. Mac. Por. Rou.
Shenstone, Wm. 1714-1763. Pastoral poet. Au-
thor of The Schoolmistress, a poem in Spenserian
stanza, and of pastoral ballads. See Gilfillan's
edition of, Edinburgh, 1854. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 3.
Sheridan, Mrs. Frances. 1724-1766. Novelist and
dramatist. Wife to T. S.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. 1751-1816. Irish
dramatist. Son to F. S. and T. S. A sparkling,
witty writer. Author of The Duenna, an opera,
The Critic, a farce, and The Rivals and School for
Scandal, two of the best comedies in the Eng. lan-
guage. See Works, edited by J. B. Browne, 1873,
and F. Stainforth, 1874; also edition of 1883,
with Introduction, by R. G. White. See Life of, by
Moore, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1883, and Sheridan,
by Mrs. Oliphant, in Eng. Men. of Letters. Pub.
Do. Rou.
Sheridan, Thomas. 1721-1788. Irish lexicographer.
Author Dict. Eng. Lang., etc.
Handbook of English Authors.
127
Bp. London.
Theo-
Sherlock, Wm. 1678-1761.
logian of note.
Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha. 1775-1851. Writer
of an immense number of religious tales, once very
popular. Little Henry and his Bearer is one of the
best known. See Life, 1874. Pub. Ca. Har. Wh.
Shirley, James. 1594-1666. Dramatist. The latest
of the Shakespearean dramatists. Better known
than any of his 40 plays is the noble poem Death's
Final Conquest. See Dyce's Life of, 1833, and
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Shorthouse, Joseph Henry.
1834
Novelist.
Author of John Inglesant and Little Schoolmaster
Mark. Pub. Mac.
Sidgwick, Henry. 1838-
Political economist.
Author of The Principles of Political Economy,
The Methods of Ethics, Ethics in Encyc. Britan.,
etc. A precise and impartial thinker. Pub. Mac.
Put.
Sidney, Algernon. 1622–1683. Political writer. Au-
thor Discourses on Government, etc. See Life, by
Meadley, 1813.
Sidney or Sydney, Sir Philip. 1554-1586. Poet
and prose writer. Author of Sonnets, the prose
romance Arcadia, and The Apologie for Poetrie,
with which latter work literary criticism may be
said to begin. See Grosart's complete edition,
1877. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1, Masson's
Eng. Novelists, and Life, by Fox-Bourne, 1862.
Simcox, Geo. Augustus. 1841
littérateur. Author Prometheus Unbound, a tragedy,
Poems and Romances, and a Hist. of Latin Lit.
Fub. Har. Rou.
Poet and
Simpson, Sir James Young. 1811-1870. Scotch
medical writer of note. Pub. Apl. Lip.
128
Handbook of English Authors.
Simpson, Thomas. 1710-1761. Mathematician.
Author of a long series of mathematical works.
Simson, Robert. 1687-1768. Scotch mathema-
tician. Author of a noted translation of Euclid.
Sinclair, Mrs. Catherine. 1800-1864. Scotch nov-
elist. Author of Beatrice, Modern Society, Jane
Bouverie, etc. Pub. Har.
Singer, Samuel Weller. 1783-1868. Shakespearean
scholar. His edition of Shakespeare appeared in
1826.
Skeat [skeet], Walter Wm. 1835
Philolo-
gist. Editor of numerous Early Eng. and Anglo-
Saxon works, and author of an Etymological Dict.
of the Eng. Language. Pub. Mac.
Skelton, John.
c. 1460-1529. Poet. Author Why
Come Ye Not to Court? a fierce satire upon Wolsey,
Colin Clout, and the Boke of Phyllype Sparowe.
His verse is rugged and harsh, but very powerful.
See Dyce's edition, 1843, and Ward's Eng. Poets,
Pub. Hou.
vol. I.
Skene, Wm. Forbes. 1809
Antiquarian. Au-
thor The Highlanders of Scotland, Chronicles of
the Picts and Scots, etc.
Sketchley, Arthur. See Rose, Geo.
Skinner, John. 1721-1807. Scotch poet. Tulloch-
gorum is his most noted poem. See Poems of, with
Memoir, 1859.
Smart, Benj. Humphrey. c. 1785-1872. Lexicog-
rapher. The chief of his numerous works is a
Pronouncing Dict., which first appeared in 1836.
Smart, Christopher. 1722-1770. Poet. Author of
a noted satire called The Hilliad and the famous
Song to David. See edition 1791.
Smart, Hawley.
18-
Novelist. Author
Breezie Langton, Bound to Win, etc. Pub. Apl.
Handbook of English Authors.
129
Smedley, Edward. 1789-1836. Historian. Author
Religio Clerici, Hist. Reformed Religion in France,
Hist. France, etc. Pub. Har.
Smedley, Francis Edward. 1819-1865.
Novelist.
Author Frank Fairleigh, Harry Coverdale's Court-
Pub. Pet. Rou.
ship, etc.
Sister to F. E. S.
Smedley, Menella Bute. c. 1825-c. 1875. Poet.
Author of Nina, Twice Lost, and
One of the finest of her poems
other prose tales.
is The Little Fair Soul. Pub. Rou.
Smee, Alfred.
Pub. Put.
1818-1877.
Smiles, Samuel. 1816
Scientific writer of note.
Scotch writer. Au-
thor Self Help, Thrift, Life of a Scotch Naturalist,
Life of Geo. Stephenson, etc. Pub. Har. Lip. Rou.
Smith, Adam. 1723-1790. Political economist.
Author of The Wealth of Nations, the theory of
which is that labor is the source of wealth. See
Lives by Brougham, Playfair, and Smellie. Pub.
Mac. Put.
Smith, Albert Richard. 1816-1860. Novelist. Au-
thor Christopher Tadpole, etc.
Smith, Alexander. 1830-1867. Scotch poet and
essayist. Author Edwin of Deira, Life Drama,
City Poems, etc. His verse achieved a sudden but
brief popularity. It is brilliant, but uneven. His
prose, of which A Summer in Skye is the best ex-
ample, is excellent. See Life, by Alexander, 1868,
and Stedman's Victorian Poets.
Smith, Mrs. Charlotte. 1749-1806. Poet and nov-
elist. Elegiac Sonnets are her principal poems, and
The Old Manor House is her best novel.
Smith, George. c. 1825-1876. Orientalist. Author
of The Chaldean Account of Genesis, Assyrian
Discoveries, Records of the Past, etc. Pub. Scr.
9
130
Handbook of English Authors.
Smith, Goldwin. 1823
Miscellaneous writer.
Author Lect. and Essays, The Study of Hist., Three
Eng. Statesmen, etc. Pub. Har. Mac.
Smith, Horace. 1779-1849. Poet and novelist.
Author of the noted poem Address to a Mummy, of
five of the Rejected Addresses published by Horace
and James Smith, and of several novels, — The
Moneyed Man, Brambletye House, etc. Pub. Har.
Ho. Put.
Smith, Isaac Gregory. 1826
Religious writer.
Author Characteristics of Christian Morality, etc.
Pub. Dut.
Smith, James. 1775-1839. Poet and critic. Bro. to
H. S. Author of five of the travesties in Rejected
Addresses, viz., those on Wordsworth, Cobbett,
Southey, Coleridge, and Crabbe. See Memoirs of,
by Horace Smith, 1840. Pub. Ho. Put.
Smith, James.
elist.
1824
Scotch poet and nov-
1775-1851. Theologian. Au-
Religious writer.
Nov-
Pub. Mac.
18-
Smith, John Pye. 1775-1851.
thor Letters to Belsham, etc.
Smith, Robert Payne. 1818
Author Bampton Lect., 1869, etc.
Smith, Sarah, "Hesba Stretton."
elist. Author Bede's Charity, Through A Needle's
Eye, and other excellent novels. Pub. Do. Rou.
Smith, Sydney. 1771-1845. Essayist and humorist.
Author of the Plymley Letters, etc. A perfect mas-
ter of an intensely amusing and sarcastic style of
reasoning. See Duyckinck's Wit and Wisdom of
Sydney Smith. Pub. Apl. Har. Rou.
Smith, Thos. Southwood. 1788-1861. Medical
writer of note. Author Philosophy of Health, The
use of the Dead to the Living, etc. Pub. Clx. Lip.
Smith, Wm. 1769-1839. Geological writer of emi-
nence. See Life, by Phillips, 1844.
Handbook of English Authors.
131
Smith, Wm.
1813
Classical lexicographer.
Author Dict. Greek and Roman Antiquities, Dict.
of the Bible, etc. Pub. Apl. Est. Har. Hou. Lit.
Por.
Smith, Wm. Robertson. 1847
Scotch theo-
logian of note. Author of The Old Testament in
the Jewish Church, etc. Pub. Apl.
Smollett, Tobias George. 1721-1771. Author of
Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Count Fathom,
Humphrey Clinker, etc., novels whose coarseness is
scarcely atoned for by their wit and vivacity. See
Complete Works, 1872. See Thackeray's Eng.
Humorists and Masson's Novelists and Their
Styles. Pub. Har. Rou.
Smyth, Chas. Piazzi. c. 1820
Egyptologist.
Son to W. H. S. Author Our Inheritance in the
Gt. Pyramid, Life and Work at the Gt. Pyramid,
etc. An ingenious but somewhat fanciful thinker.
Pub. Est. Rou. Scr.
Smyth, Wm. Henry. 1788-1865. Hydrographer.
Author of a noted work on the physical geography
of the Mediterranean. Pub. Mac.
Smythe, Geo. Sydney,
1818-1857. Novelist.
and Angela Pisani.
Viscount Strangford.
Author of Historic Fancies
Somers, Lord John. 1651-1716. Jurist. Author
of the noted "Somers Tracts." See Walter Scott's
edition, 13 vols. 4to, 1815. See Campbell's Lives
of the Chancellors.
Somerville, Mrs. Mary. 1780-1872. Scotch astron-
omer. Author Mechanism of the Heavens, Connec-
tion of the Physical Sciences, Physical Geography,
etc. See Personal Recollections, by Mrs. Somerville,
1873. Pub. Har. Rob. Sh.
Somerville, Wm. 1682-1742. Poet. Author of
The Chase, etc. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
132 Handbook of English Authors.
Sotheby [suth'e-bi], Wm. 1757-1833. A fine trans-
lation of Wieland's Oberon is his best known work.
South, Robert. 1633-1716. A witty theologian,
whose Sermons possess vitality and are still read.
Pub. Dut. Hou.
Southern [suth'ern], Thos. 1660-1746. Irish dram-
atist. Author Oroonoko, The Fatal Dowry, etc.
His plays were once very popular and show great
power.
Southey [sowth'i], Mrs. Caroline Anne [Bowles].
1787-1854. Poet. Wife to R. S. Author of The
Young Gray Head, The Pauper's Death Bed, etc.
Style harmonious and pathetic. Pub. Rou.
Southey, Robert. 1774-1843. Poet and essayist.
Author of Thalaba, Curse of Kehama, Roderick,
Madoc, etc. As a whole his verse is a good deal
like prose, but prose of an excellent quality. The
Doctor is one of his most noted prose works. See
Life, by C. T. Browne, and Dowden's Southey, in
Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Rou.
Southwell, Robert. 1560-1595. Poet. Content
and Rich and Times go by Turns are among his
best poems. His verse has much quiet beauty.
See MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. I.
Spedding, James. 1808-1881. Baconian scholar.
Editor Lord Bacon's works, author Life and Letters
of Bacon, Reviews and Discussions, Evenings with
a Reviewer, etc. Pub. Hou.
Speed, John. 1552-1629. Antiquary. Hist. Great
Britain, etc.
Spelman, Sir Henry. 1562-1641. Antiquary. Au-
thor Hist. Eng. Councils, Glossarium Archæolog-
icum, etc.
Spencer, Herbert. 1820
Philosopher. Au-
The
who
A letter of Southey has been found fr
which, alluding to his poem, "Modoc," and
Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel," He says:
"My acorn will continue to grow when his
Turkey bean shall have withered.”
third member of the trium virate
founded the Faile School of Poetry, proved
to be no prophet. Men are usually poor
judges of their own literary productions.
Southey was. Scott's "Turkey Bean" has
shot skyward, while Southey's "Acoin"
hasn't grown knee high to a duck,


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thor Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, Study
of Sociology, Education, Descriptive Sociology, etc.
Pub. Apl.
Spencer, Wm. Robert. 1770-1834. Poet. Beth-
Gélert is his best known poem.
Spenser, Edmund. 1552-1599. Poet. Shepherd's
Calendar, Mother Hubbard's Tale. Amoretti, Epitha-
lamion, and Prothalamion are the best of his minor
poems. The Faerie Queene, an allegory in 6 books,
is his greatest work, the interest of which lies not
in the poem as a narration, but in its symbolic repre-
sentation of the soul at war with evil. See Todd's
Variorum edition, and editions by Payne Collier,
1862, and Morris, 1869. See Craik's Spenser and
his Poetry, Morley's Library Eng. Lit., and Church's
Spenser, in Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Mac. Hou.
Spottswood or Spottiswoode, John. 1565-1639.
Abp. St. Andrew's. Ecclesiastical historian. Au-
thor Hist. Church of Scotland, etc. See Russell's
edition, 1851.
Sprat, Thos.
1636-1713. Bp. Rochester. Theo-
logian. Author Hist. Royal Society, Life of Cowley,
Poems, Sermons, etc.,
Spurgeon, Chas. Haddon. 1834
Author
several vols. of Sermons, John Ploughman's Talks,
etc. Pub. Ca. Scr. Sh.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield.
1694-1773. Author of the celebrated Letters to
his Son, Philip Stanhope, the morality of which has
been much debated. Style polished and able.
Stanhope, Philip Henry, Lord Mahon. 1805-
1875. Author Hist. of England, Hist. War of the
Spanish Succession, etc. Pub. Lit.
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. 1815-1881. Theologian.
Author Lect. on the Jewish Church, Lect. on the
134 Handbook of English Authors.
Eastern Church, Christian Institutions, Life of Dr.
Arnold, etc. A writer of much vigor and strength,
whose wide sympathies are clearly shown in his
works. See Century Mag. Jan. 1883, and Myers's
Essays Modern. Pub. Arm. Dut. Har. Mac. Scr.
Stanley, Thomas. 1625-1678. Poet. Beside a vol.
of quaint verse S. wrote a Hist. of Philosophy.
Staunton [stän'ton], Howard. 1810-1874. Shake-
spearean scholar. His library edition of Shake-
speare appeared in 1863. Pub. Rou.
Steele, Sir Richard. 1671-1729. Essayist. S. be-
gan the periodical Essay by The Tatler in 1709,
and wrote afterwards with Addison in The Specta-
tor and The Guardian. Author also of The Chris-
tian Hero. See Thackeray's Eng. Humorists.
Steevens, George. 1736-1800. Shakespearean
scholar. S. edited with Dr. Johnson the edition of
1773, and with Isaac Reed those of 1785 and 1793.
Stephen, Sir James. 1789-1859. Historian and
essayist. Author Essays in Eccl. Biography, Lect.
on Hist. of France, etc. See Life, by his son, 1860.
Pub. Har.
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames. 1829
Son to preceding.
Jurist.
Author General View of the
Criminal Law of England, Essays by a Barrister,
etc. Pub. Mac. Th.
Stephen, Leslie. 1832
to Sir J. S.
Littérateur. Neph.
Author of a brilliant Hist. Eng.,
Thought in the Eighteenth Cent., Science of Eth-
ics, Hours in a Library, and Pope, Johnson, and
Swift, in Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Har. Scr.
Stephenson, Mrs. Eliza [Tabor]. 1835
Nov-
elist. Author St. Olave's, Jeanie's Quiet Life, The
Blue Ribbon, Meta's Faith, The Senior Songman,
etc. St. Olave's, her best work, has been very pop-
ular. Pub. Har.
Handbook of English Authors.
135
Sterling, John. 1806-1844. Poet and critic. See
Lives, by Hare, 1848, T. Carlyle, 1851; also, Caro-
line Fox's Memories of Old Friends.
Sterne, Lawrence. 1713-1768. Humorist. Author
of Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey,
two rambling, fantastic books, with a slender thread
of story in each. The quaintness is affected, and
the humor sometimes obscure, but the character
drawing is inimitable. See Life, by Fitzgerald,
Taine's Eng. Lit., Masson's Eng. Novelists and
Their Styles, and H. D. Traill's Sterne, in Eng.
Men of Letters. Pub. Clx. Lip. Rou.
Sternhold, Thos.
c. 1500-1549. Associate with
Hopkins in a metrical version of the Psalms.
Stevenson, John Hall. 1718-1785. Poet. Author
Crazy Hall Tales. etc.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1850 -
Author of
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, An Inland
Voyage, The New Arabian Nights, etc. Pub. Rob.
Stewart, Dugald. 1753-1828. Scotch metaphysi-
cian. Author Philosophical Essays, Philosophy of
the Active and Moral Powers, etc.
Still, John. 1543-1607. Bp. Bath and Wells. To
him has been doubtfully attributed the comedy
Gammer Gurton's Needle, one of the very earliest
English plays. See Dodsley's Old Plays.
Stillingfleet, Edward. 1635-1699. Bp. Worcester..
Controversial writer of note. Pub. Mac.
Stirling, Earl of. See Alexander, Wm.
Stirling, Sir Wm. Maxwell. See Maxwell Stir-
ling.
Stormonth, James. 1825-1882. Scotch lexicog-
rapher. Author Dict. of Scientific Terms, Etymo-
logical Dict., etc. Pub. Har.
Stoughton, John. 1807. Religious historian.
136
Handbook of English Authors.
Author Hist. of Religion in England from the Open-
ing of the Long Parliament to the End of the
Eighteenth Cent., and Introduction to Historical
Theology. Pub. Arm. Phi.
Stow, John. 1525-1605. Chronicler.
Strangford, Viscount. See Smythe, G. S.
Street, Geo. Edmund. 1824-1881. Gothic archi-
tect. Author The Brick and Marble in the Middle
Ages, Gothic Architecture in Spain, etc. See The
Biograph, Aug. 1880.
Stretton, Hesba. See Smith, Sarah.
Strickland, Agnes. 1796-1874. Historical writer.
Author Lives of the Queens of England, Lives of
the Queens of Scotland, Lives of the Seven Bishops,
etc. Pub. Har. La. Lip. Por.
Strutt, Joseph. 1742-1802. Antiquarian. Author
Sports and Pastimes of the People of England,
Biographical Hist. of Engravers, etc. Pub. Rou.
Strype, John. 1643-1737. Historian. Author An-
nals of the Reformation, Life of Cranmer, etc.
Stuart, Gilbert. 1742-1786. Historian. Author
View of Society in Europe, Hist. of Scotland, etc.
An accurate but prejudiced writer.
Stubbs, Wm. 1825
Historian. Author of
The Constitutional Hist. of England, The Early
Plantagenets, etc. Pub. Est. Mac.
Stukely, Wm. 1687-1765. Antiquarian writer.
Suckling, Sir John. 1609-1641. Of his gay, airy
verse, the Ballad upon a Wedding is most widely
known. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Sugden, Edward Burtenshaw, Baron St. Leon-
ards. 1781-1875. Jurist of high rank. Author
Handy Book on Property Law, etc. Pub. Jo.
Sumner, John Bird. 1780-1862. Abp. Canterbury.
Religious writer. Author Practical Reflections, etc.
Surrey, Earl of. See Howard, Henry.
Handbook of English Authors.
137
Swain, Charles. 1803-1874. Poet. His verse is
pleasing, but has little strength. Pub. Rob.
Swift, Jonathan. 1667-1745. Irish satirist. Author
Battle of the Books, Tale of a Tub, Drapier's Let-
ters, Gulliver's Travels, etc. Style coarse, bitterly
savage and personal, but of great vigor, keenness,
and force. See Lives, by T. Sheridan and Forster;
also, Taine's Eng. Lit., Thackeray's Eng. Humor-
ists, Leslie Stephen's Swift, in Eng. Men of Let-
ters, and Masson's Novelists. Pub. Hou.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. 1837
and critic. Author of Atalanta in Calydon, Song of
Italy, Chastelard, Mary Stuart, Bothwell, Tristram,
etc. Tristram is the finest of his long poems, and
A Child's Song in Winter one of the best of the
minor ones. His verse shows wonderful melody
and perfect mastery of metre even when most ob-
scure, and abounds in vivid and exquisite descrip-
tions. See Stedman's Victorian Poets and Lowell's
My Study Windows. Pub. Ho.
Poet
Sylvester, Joshua. 1563-1618. Poet. Translator
of the French poet Du Bartas, and known in his
day as Silver-Tongued Sylvester.
Symonds, John Addington. 1840
Poet and
critic. Author Hist. of the Renaissance in Italy,
Studies of the Greek Poets, Sketches and Studies
in Southern Europe, Italian Byways, etc., and two
vols. of poems, entitled New and Old and Many
Moods. Pub. Har. Ho. Os.
Tabor, Eliza. See Stephenson, Mrs.
Tait, Archibald Campbell. 1811-1882. Abp. Can-
terbury. Theologian. Author Dangers and Safe-
guards of Modern Theology, etc. Pub. Mac.
Talfourd [tawl'furd], Sir Thomas Noon. 1795-1854.
138
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Dramatic poet. Author of The Athenian Captive,
Glencoe, The Castilian, etc., but chiefly known by
his fine tragedy Ion, and Final Memorials of Chas.
Lamb.
Tannahill, Robert. 1774-1810. Scotch poet. His
lyrics possess a sweetness like those of Burns.
Braes of Balquither and The Flower of Dumblane
familiar examples. See Centenary edition,
are
1874.
Tate, Nahum. 1652-1715. Associate with Brady in
a noted metrical version of the Psalms, and author
of several plays.
Tautphoeus, Baroness. 18-
Novelist. Au-
thor of The Initials, Quits, Cyrilla, At Odds, etc.
Pub. Ho. Lip.
Taylor, Brook. 1685-1731. Mathematician. Au-
thor Methods of Increment and inventor of Taylor's
Theorem.
Taylor, Sir Henry. 1800
Dramatic poet.
1,
Author Edwin the Fair, Philip Van Artavelde,
Isaac Comnenus, etc. Philip Van Artavelde, his
finest work, ranks high in modern dramatic poetry.
See edition 1863. See Fortnightly Review, vol. I,
and The Biograph, vol. 2. Pub. Lip.
Taylor, Isaac. 1787-1865. Miscellaneous writer.
Author Elements of Thought, The Spirit of Hebrew
Poetry, The World of Mind, etc. Pub. Ca. Dut.
Har. Mac.
Taylor, Jane. 1783-1824. Moral and religious writer.
Sister to I. T. Author with her sister Ann of
Hymns for Infant Minds, etc. Pub. Ca. Har. Por.
Rou.
Taylor, Jeremy. 1613-1667. Bp. Down and Con-
nor. Theologian. His best works are Sermons,
The Great Exemplar, and Holy Living and Holy
Handbook of English Authors. 139
Dying. His warmth of imagination and poetic fer-
vor render his prose both musical and eloquent,
while his long, involved sentences are managed
with the rarest skill. See Heber's edition, 15 vols.,
1820. See Life, by Wilmott, 1847. Pub. Ca. Clx.
Dut. Lip.
Taylor, John. 1580-1654. Poet. Called the Water
Poet. A voluminous writer but one of little interest
to modern readers.
Taylor, Robert. fl. c. 1600. Dramatist. Author of
The Hog hath Lost his Pearl, etc.
Taylor, Thomas. 1758-1835. Philosophical writer.
Known as the Platonist.
Taylor, Tom. 1817-1880. Dramatist. Of his many
excellent plays, The Ticket-of-Leave Man is the
most popular. See Eclectic Mag. Oct. 1880.
Taylor, Wm. 1765-1836. His translations of
Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing promoted greatly
the study of German literature in England.
Temple, Frederick. 1821
ologian of the Broad Church
mons in Rugby School, etc.
Temple, Sir Wm. 1628-1699.
ist. The best edition of his
London, 1814.
Bp. Exeter. The-
school. Author Ser-
Pub. Mac.
Philosophical essay-
works is 4 vols. 8vo,
Tennant, Wm. 1784-1848. Scotch poet. Author
of the humorous, mock-heroic poem, Anster Fair,
ctc. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.
Tennent, Sir James. See Emerson-Tennent.
Tennyson, Alfred. 1809
Poet Laureate. In
Memoriam, Idyls of the King, The Princess, Maud,
and Enoch Arden, with the dramas Harold and
Queen Mary, comprise his longest poems. Among
the finest of the shorter ones are Enone, Ulysses,
The Talking Oak, Lotus Eaters, Lady of Shalott,
140
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The Gardener's Daughter, The Revenge, and Locks-
ley Hall, and of the brief songs, Tears, Idle Tears,
and Late, so Late. The poetry of T., taken as a
whole, represents the highest water mark of the
non-dramatic poetry of the English-speaking world.
In it is united a perfect mastery of words and
metre with a widely cultured, thoughtful imagina-
tion. See Hutton's Essays, Stedman's Victorian
Poets, Buchanan's Master Spirits, Tainsh's Stud-
ies in Tennyson, Gatty's Study of In Memoriam,
Genung's Study of In Memoriam, Atlantic Monthly,
Sept. 1879. Pub. Har. Hou. Os.
Tennyson-Turner, Chas. 1808-1879. Poet. Bro.
to A. Tennyson. Style delicate and meditative. His
Sonnets have been greatly praised. See Living
Age, Dec. 31, 1881.
Tennyson, Frederick.
1806
Poet. Bro. to
two preceding. Author Days and Hours, etc. Style
artistic and elegant. The Blackbird is one of his
best poems. See Stedman's Victorian Poets.
Thackeray-Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella. 1842
Dau. to W. M. T. Novelist. Author of
Miss Angel, Old Kensington, Village on the Cliff,
etc. Style quiet, picturesque, and refined. Pub.
Har.
Thackeray, Wm. Makepeace. 1811-1863. Nov-
elist. Author of Vanity Fair, Newcomes, Pendennis,
Virginians, Henry Esmond, Philip, Denis Duval,
Hoggarty Diamond, Barry Lyndon, etc. Of these
Esmond must rank highest as a piece of literary
art. His style presents a union of the satirical and
the humorous, the cynical and the kindly, which
perplexes some readers, but is almost always an
example of excellent English. The End of the Play
and Bouillebaisse are his two best poems.
See
¡
Handbook of English Authors.
141
Hannay's Studies on Thackeray in Every Satur-
day, vol. 6, Old Series, Shepard's Pen Pictures of
Modern Authors, Rideing's Stray Moments with
Thackeray, and Taylor's Thackeray the Humorist.
Pub. Har. Ho. Lip.
Theobald [thee-o-bawld, or tib'bald], Lewis. 1688-
1744. Dramatist and Shakespearean editor. His
edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1733, and is of
great merit. T. was savagely and unjustly satirized
by Pope in the Dunciad.
Thirlwall, Connop. 1797-1875. Bp. St. David's.
Historian. Author of a valuable Hist. of Greece.
Pub. Har. Rob.
Thomas, Annie. See Cudlip, Mrs.
Thoms, Wm. John. 1803 ·
Thomson, James. 1700-1748.
Antiquarian writer.
Scotch poet. Author
of The Seasons, Castle of Indolence, etc. His
style is somewhat heavy, but his feeling for nature
is genuine and his descriptions are fine. See Lives,
by Buchan, Gilfillan, and Bell; also, Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 3. Pub. Apl. Clx. Hou.
Thomson, James. 1834-1882. Scotch poet. Au-
thor of a sombre but striking poem, The City of
Dreadful Night. See To-day, July, 1883, and
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, 2d edition.
Thomson, Mrs. Katharine. 1800-1862. Historical
writer.
Thomson, Wm. 1819
Abp. York. Religious
writer. Author The Necessary Laws of Thought, etc.
Thornbury, Geo. Walter. 1828-1876. Novelist and
poet. Author Life of Turner, True as Steel, Great-
heart, etc. Culloden and The Jester's Sermon are
among his best poems. Style spirited and strong.
See Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub. Ho.
Thornton, Bonnell. 1724-1768.
translator.
Dramatist and
142
Handbook of English Authors.
Thornton, Wm. Thomas. 1813-1880. Political
economist. Author Over-Population and its Rem-
edy, Plea for Peasant Proprietors, On Labor, Old-
Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics,
Poems, etc. Pub. Mac.
Thorold, Anthony Wilson. 1825-
Bp. Roch-
ester. Religious writer. Author The Presence of
Christ, The Threshold of Private Devotions, etc.
Pub. Ran.
Thrale, Mrs. See Piozzi, Mrs.
Thurlow, Lord Edward Hovell. 1781-1829. Poet.
Author Ariadne, etc.
Tickell, Richard.
1793. Humorist. Author
of The Anticipation, an amusing forecast of the
debates in the Parliament of 1778.
Tickell, Thomas. 1686-1740. Poet and essayist.
Grandfather to R. T. Author of a fine elegy upon
Addison, the ballad of Colin and Lucy, several
papers in the Spectator, etc. See Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 3. Pub Hou.
Tighe [ti], Mrs. Mary Blackford. 1773-1810. Irish
poet. Subject of Moore's poem "I saw thy form
in youthful prime," and author of Psyche, a highly
imaginative poem in Spenserian stanza.
Tillotson, John. 1630-1694. Abp. Cant. His Ser-
mons, still occasionally read, are sedate and solid
in style.
Timbs, John. 1801-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Au-
thor Anecdote-Biography, Curiosities of London,
Club Life in London, etc. Pub. Har. Rou.
Tindal, Matthew. 1657-1733. Religious contro-
versial writer.
Tobin, John. 1770-1804. Dramatist. Author, among
other plays, of the romantic, popular comedy The
Honeymoon. See Memoirs, by E. S. Benger, 1820.
Handbook of English Authors.
143
Todd, Henry John. 1763-1845. Littérateur. Au-
thor Life of Cranmer, Account of the Deans of Can-
terbury, etc., and editor of Spenser, Milton, and
Johnson's Dict.
Tonna, Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth [Brown]. 1792-
1846. Writer of moral and religious tales. Known
as an author by her signature Charlotte Elizabeth.
Tooke, John Horne. See Horne-Tooke.
Toplady, Augustus Montague. 1740-1778. Theo-
logian and hymn writer. Chiefly known by the
famous hymn Rock of Ages. See Works, 1869.
Tourneur, Cyril. fl. c. 1600. Dramatist. Author
The Atheist's Tragedy, Revenger's Tragedy, etc.
His plays show great power and dramatic skill.
Townley, James. 1715-1788. Dramatist. Author
of the witty farce High Life Below Stairs, etc.
Townshend [townz'end], Chauncey Hare. 1798–
1868. Poet and prose writer. Author Sermons in
Sonnets, Facts in Mesmerism, Mesmerism Proved,
etc. Pub. Har.
Trafford, F. G. See Riddell, Mrs. C. E.
Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux.
1813-1875.
Biblical
scholar of note. Author The Englishman's Greek
Concordance to the New Testament, etc.
Trelawny, Edward John. 1792-1881. Novelist.
Author Adventures of a Younger Son, Recollec-
tions of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, etc.
Trench, Richard Chenevix. 1807
Abp.
Dublin. Poet, philologist, and theologian. Author
Notes on the Miracles, Study of Words, English
Past and Present, Poems, etc. See Myers's Essays
Modern. Pub. Apl. Arm. Mac. Scr.
Trevelyan, George Otto. 1838
Miscella-
neous writer. Author Cawnpore, Life of Macaulay,
etc. Pub. Har.
144 Handbook of English Authors.
Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah.
1741-1810. Miscellaneous
writer. Author Fabulous Histories, Abridgments
of Scripture Hist., Sermons for Family Reading,
etc. Pub. Rou.
Trollope, Anthony. 1815-1882. Novelist. Son to
F. M. T. Author of a very long list of excellent nov-
els, the best of which are, He Knew he was Right,
Barchester Towers, Marion Fay, Doctor Thorne,
and Framley Parsonage. His stories are never
dull; the current of the narrative flows easily and
the characters are well sketched, but the English is
sometimes a little careless. See Autobiography;
also, Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 1883, Century Mag.
July, 1883, and Princeton Review, July, 1883.
Pub. Har. Lip. Mac. Pet. Por. Rou.
Trollope, Edward. 1817
Bp. Nottingham.
Archæological and architectural writer of note.
Cousin to A. T. and T. A. T.
Trollope, Mrs. Frances Eleanor [Tiernan]. 18-
Novelist. Wife to T. A. T. Author of Aunt
Margaret's Trouble, Anne Furness, Among Aliens,
Mabel's Progress, The Sacristan's Household, Ve-
ronica, etc. Pub. Har.
Trollope, Mrs. Frances [Milton]. 1778-1863. Nov-
elist. Author Domestic Manners among the Amer-
icans, Widow Barnaby, etc. A voluminous, witty,
but inartistic writer. Pub. Har. Rou.
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. 1810
Nov-
elist and historian. Son to F. M. T. Author Lin-
disfarne Chase, Filippo Strozzi, La Beata, Hist.
Florentine Commonwealth, Life Pope Pius IX.,
The Papal Conclaves, etc. See "Eng. Authors in
Florence," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1864. Pub.
Har. Mac. Pet.
Tucker, Abraham.
1705-1774.
Metaphysician.
Handbook of English Authors.
145
Author of The Light of Nature Pursued, published
under the pseudonym Edward Search.
Tucker, Charlotte. "A. L. O. E." 1830
of religious juvenile fiction. Pub. Ca. Nel.
Tulloch, John. 1823
Writer
Scotch theologian.
Author Theism, Leaders of the Reformation, Christ
of the Gospels and Christ of Modern Criticism,
etc. See The Biograph, vol. 3. Pub. Mac. Phi.
Rou. Scr.
Tupper, Martin Farquhar. 1810
Poet and
prose writer. Author of The Proverbial Philosophy,
and other popular but exceedingly commonplace
poems. Some of his prose tales are excellent; of
these Crock of Gold is the best known. Pub. Arm.
Pet.
Turberville, George. 1530-c. 1595. Poet. Author
Tragical Tales, etc.
Turner, Chas. Tennyson. See Tennyson-Turner.
Turner, Dawson.
Author Nat. Hist.
1775-1858.
of Sea Weeds, etc.
Turner, Sharon. 1768-1847. Historian. His chief
works are Hist. of England in the Middle Ages,
Sacred Hist. of the World, and a valuable Hist. of
the Anglo-Saxons. Pub. Har.
Tusser, Thomas. 1515-1580. Poet. Author of A
Hondreth Good Points of Husbandrie, expanded by
later writers into Five Hundred Points of Good
Husbandrie. See Mavor's edition, 1812.
Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1832
Ethnologist.
Author of Anahauc, or Mexico and the Mexicans,
Researches into the Early Hist. of Mankind, An-
thropology and Primitive Culture. A writer of thor-
ough scientific knowledge, possessing an admirable
style. Pub. Apl. Ho.
Tyndale or Tindal, Wm.
1477-1536. Translator
IO
146
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of the New Testament, 1525. Tyndale's version
was afterwards revised by Coverdale. See Offor's
Life of, 1836.
Tyndall, John.
1820
Irish physicist. Author
Glaciers of the Alps, Heat as a Mode of Motion,
Lect. on Light, On Radiation, etc. Pub. Apl.
Tyrwhitt [tĕrit], Thomas. 1730-1786. Antiquary
and Chaucerian scholar.
Editor of the works of
Chaucer and Chatterton. A scholar of singular
insight, whose conjectures have nearly all been sus-
tained by texts of which he knew nothing.
Tytler [tit'ler], Alex. Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee.
1747-1813. Scotch historian. Son to Wm. T.
Author Elements of Gen. Hist., Essay on Military
Law, etc. Pub Clx. Har.
Tytler, C. C. Fraser.
Liddell, Mrs.
Great-niece to P. F. T. See
Tytler, Patrick Fraser.
1791-1849. Scotch his-
torian and biographer. Son to A. F. T. Author
Scottish Worthies, etc., and a standard Hist. of
Scotland. Pub. Har.
See Keddie, Henrietta.
Tytler, Sarah.
Tytler, Wm.
1711-1792.
critical writer.
Scotch historical and
Udall [yoo'dǎl], Nicholas. 1506-1556. Dramatist.
Author Ralph Roister Doister, the first Eng: com-
edy. It is known to have been acted before 1551.
See Arber's reprint.
Upcott, Wm. 1779-1845. Bibliographer of note.
Urquhart [ûrk'art], David. 1805-1877. Scotch
writer. Author Turkey and its Resources, The
Progress of Russia, the Pillars of Hercules, etc.
Pub. Har.
Usher or Ussher, James. 1580-1656. Abp. Armagh.
Handbook of English Authors.
147
Chronologist. Author Chronological Tables of
Universal Hist. from the Creation to Vespasian.
The marginal dates in the authorized version of the
Bible are from Usher. See Complete Works, 17
vols., Dublin, 1864. See Life, by Aikin.
Valpy, Abraham John. 1787-1854. Shakespearean
editor. His illustrated Shakespeare, 15 vols., ap..
peared in 1834.
Vanbrugh [văn'broo], Sir John. 1666-1726. Drama-
tist and architect. Author of a dozen brilliant but
coarse comedies, among which The Relapse, Re-
voked Wife, The Confederacy, and Journey to
London are the best.
Vaughan [vawn or vaw'an], Chas. James. 1816
Theologian. Author Heroes of Faith, Epistles of
St. Paul for Eng. Readers, etc. A leader of Broad
Church thought. Pub. Dut. Mac. Phi. Rou.
Vaughan, Henry. 1621–1695. Poet. His verse is
religious in character, and is as frequently harsh in
sound as quaint in form. Silex Scintillans is the
title of his principal work. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. 2, MacDonald's England's Antiphon, and Dr.
John Brown's Spare Hours, 1st Series. Pub. Hou.
Vaughan, Robert. 1795-1868. Miscellaneous writer.
Author of Congregationalism, the Age of Great
Cities, Revolutions in English Hist., etc.
Vaughan, Robert Alfred. 1823-1855. Son to R. V.
Author Hours with the Mystics, etc. See Memoir
by his father, 1858.
Vaux [vawks], Thomas, Lord. 1510-1557. Poet.
Author of the Grave-digger's song in Hamlet and
the meditative poem Thought.
Veitch, John.
1829
Scotch philosophical
writer. Author Memoirs of Dugald Stewart and
Sir Wm. Hamilton, etc.
148
Handbook of English Authors.
Venn, Henry. 1725-1797. Religious writer. Au-
thor Complete Duty of Man, etc. See Life, by
Henry Venn, 1834.
Vere, De, Sir Aubrey. See De Vere, Sir Aubrey.
Vere, De, Aubrey Thomas. See De Vere, Aubrey.
Vere, De, Edward, Earl of Oxford. See De Vere,
Edward.
Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham. 1627-1688.
Dramatist. Author The Rehearsal and Battle of
Sedgemoor.
Viner [vi'ner], Chas. 1680-1756. Legal writer.
Author Complete Abridgment of Law and Equity.
Wace, Maistre Richard. c. 1120-1184. Anglo-
Norman poet. Author of the Brut d'Angleterre
and the Roman de Rou: the first poem of 12,000
lines, the latter of 17,000.
Waddington, George. 1793-1869. Historian. Au-
thor Hist. of the Church, Hist. Reformation on the
Continent, etc. Pub. Har.
Wakefield, Gilbert. 1756-1801. Theological and
classical writer. His annotated edition of Lucretius
is one of his chief works.
Wakefield, Mrs. Priscilla. 1751-1832. Miscella-
neous writer.
Archæologist.
Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Chas. 1822-1880.
Author Sacred Archæology, Ca-
thedral Cities of England and Wales, Memorials of
Canterbury, etc.
Walford, Edward. 1823
Littérateur. Au-
thor Handbook of the Greek Drama, Greater Lon-
don, etc.
Walford, Mrs. Lucy Bethia [Colquhoun]. 1845·
Novelist. Author Mr. Smith. Pauline, Cousins,
Troublesome Daughters, Dick Netherby, etc. Pub.
Ho.
Handbook of English Authors.
149
Walker, John. 1732-1807. Lexicographer. His
Dict. of the English Language appeared in 1775.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1822
Naturalist.
Author Travels on the Amazon, The Malay Archi-
pelago, Geographical Distribution of Animals, etc.
Independently of Darwin, W. originated a theory of
natural selection. Pub. Har. Mac.
Wallace, Donald Mackenzie.
1841
Trav-
eler. Author of Russia, etc. Pub. Ho.
Waller, Edmund. 1605-1687. Poet. Go, Lovely
Rose, On a Girdle, and Old Age and Death are
some of his best poems. See Bell's edition, 1866.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Waller, John Francis. 1810
Poet and prose
writer. Author Poems, The Slingsby Papers, etc.,
and editor of the Imperial Dict. of Universal Biog-
raphy. Pub. Cas.
Wallis, John. 1616-1703.
Mathematician. Author
numerous works on algebra, geometry, etc.
Walpole [wŏl'pol], Horace. 1717-1797. Miscel-
laneous writer. Author Castle of Otranto, a sen-
sational romance, The Mysterious Mother, a trag-
edy, Historic Doubts concerning Richard III.,
etc. A brilliant but superficial writer. See Mem-
oirs of, 1851; also, Living Age, vol. 13, "Straw-
berry Hill."
Walter, John.
1739-1812. Journalist. Founder of
Bp. Chester. Editor of
See Life, by Todd, 1821.
Biographer and angler.
chief work, is a book of
the London Times, 1788.
Walton, Brian. 1600-1661.
the London Polyglott Bible.
Walton, Izaak. 1593-1683.
The Complete Angler, his
much quiet beauty. Pub. Lit.
Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew Geo. 1810-1852.
Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Author
150
Handbook of English Authors.
The Crescent and the Cross, Prince Rupert and the
Cavaliers, etc.
Warburton, George.
1857. Bro. to E. B. G. W.
Author Conquest of Canada, Hochelaga, etc. Pub.
Har.
narratives.
Waring, Anna Laetitia.
18-
Warburton, Wm. 1698-1779. Bp. Gloucester.
A learned and brilliant but arrogant author. He
wrote The Divine Legation of Moses, and published
an edition of Shakespeare in 1747. See Life, by
Watson, 1863, and Quarterly Rev. June, 1812.
Ward, Robert Plumer. 1765-1846. Novelist. Au-
thor Tremaine, De Vere, De Clifford, and Chats-
worth; metaphysical, philosophical, and political
See Memoirs, 1850. Pub. Har.
Welsh poet.
Author of Hymns and Meditations. Pub. Dut.
Warner, Ferdinando. 1703-1768. Historian. Au-
thor Eccl. Hist. England, Hist. Ireland, etc.
Warner, Wm. 1558-1609. Poet. Author of Albion's
England, a hist. of England from the Deluge to
Elizabeth, containing 10,000 14-syllable lines. It
is humorous, spirited, and even pathetic in places.
See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. I, and Ward's Eng.
Poets, vol. 1.
Warren, John Leicester. 18-
Poet. Au-
thor Philoctetes, Rehearsals, Orestes, Searching the
Net, etc. See Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub.
Rou.
Warren, Samuel. 1807-1877. Novelist and physi-
cian. Author Diary of a Physician, and the fa-
mous novel Ten Thousand a Year. Pub. Har.
Por.
Warton, Joseph. 1722-1800. Poet and critic. See
Biography, by Wool, 1806.
Warton, Thomas. 1728-1790.
Poet and critic.
Handbook of English Authors.
151
Pub. Rou.
Naturalist. Au-
Pub. Mac.
Bro. to J. W. A valuable Hist. Eng. Poetry is his
chief prose work. See Carew Hazlitt's edition.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
Waterton, Charles. 1782-1865.
thor Essays on Nat. Hist., etc.
Watson, Richard. 1737-1816. Bp. Llandaff. The-
ologian. Author of Apologies for Christianity and
the Bible, etc. See Autobiography, 1817. Pub Phi.
Watson, Robert. 1730-1780. Scotch historian.
Author of a worthless Hist. of Philip II.
Watson, Thomas. 1560-1592. Poet. His Sonnets
have been much praised. See Ward's Eng. Poets,
vol. I.
Watts, Alaric Alexander. 1799-1864. Poet. Au-
thor Poetical Sketches, Lyrics of the Heart, etc.
Watts, Mrs. Anna Mary [Howitt]. 1824-1884.
Artist and miscellaneous writer. Author of The
Art Student in Munich, Pioneers of Spiritualism,
containing Lives of Dr. Justinius Kerner and Wm.
Howitt, written from the psychological point of
view, etc.
Watts, Isaac. 1674-1748. Religious poet. Author
Psalms and Hymns, etc. While some of his verse
is hardly more than doggerel, he sometimes rises
to a lofty plane of expression. See Life, by Milner,
1834. Pub. Ca. Hou. Rou.
Waugh [waw], Edwin. 1817
Author Lancashire Songs, etc.
Webster, Mrs. Augusta. 1840
Dialect poet.
Poet. Au-
•
thor Dramatic Studies, Portraits, A Woman Sold,
translations from Euripides, etc.
Pub. Mac.
Her verse is
strong and original in tone. See Stedman's Vic-
torian Poets.
Webster, John. c. 1582–1638. Dramatist. Author
of the tragedies of The White Devil, Duchess of
152
Handbook of English Authors.
Malfy, Guise, Devil's Law Case, Appius and Vir-
ginia, etc. W. is the greatest master of the terrible
among Eng. dramatists. See Dyce's edition 1830,
and Hazlitt's 1857. Pub. Rou.
Wesley, Chas. 1708-1788. Hymn writer of note.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
West, Gilbert. 1705-1756. Theologian and poet.
Translator of Pindar and author of the able treatise
Observations on the Resurrection.
Westcott, Brooke Foss. 1825
Theologian.
Author Hist. Canon of the New Testament, Hist.
of the Eng. Bible, The Bible and the Church, etc.
Pub. Har. Mac.
Westwood, Thos. 1814
Poet. Author Beads
from a Rosary, Quest of the Sancgreal, Berries and
Blossoms, etc.
Whately [hwāt'lĭ], Richard. 1787-1863. Abp.
Dublin. Essayist. Author New Testament Diffi-
culties, Political Economy, Logic and Rhetoric, etc.
A thinker of logical but unimaginative powers. Sce
Life and Correspondence, edited by his daughter,
1864, and H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches.
Pub. Ca. Dra. Har. Sh.
Whetstone, Geo. Al. c. 1580. Dramatist.
From
his play Promos and Cassandra Shakespeare has
drawn the story of Measure for Measure.
Whewell [hu'el], Wm. 1794-1866. Philosopher. Au-
thor Hist. Inductive Sciences, Plurality of Worlds,
Hist. Moral Philosophy in England, Philosophy of
the Inductive Sciences, etc. Pub. Apl. Har.
Whiston, Wm. 1667-1752. Theologian and mathe-
matician. Author of A New Theory of the Earth,
etc., and editor of Josephus. Pub. Por.
Whitaker, John. 1735-1808.
Historian. Author
Hist. of Manchester, Mary Queen of Scots Vin-
dicated, etc.
Handbook of English Authors.
153
White, Gilbert. 1720-1793. Author of the Natural-
ist's Calendar and the delightful Nat. Hist. of Sel-
borne. See Buckland's edition, London, 1875. See
Fraser's Mag., March, 1879. Pub. Har. Mac. Rou.
White, Henry. 1835
Archæologist and re-
ligious writer.
See
Author Historical Memorials of the
Savoy, Conferences on Art and History, etc.
The Biograph, Aug. 1880.
White, Henry Kirke. 1785-1806. Poet. His verse
is mediocre and crude. See Life, by Southey. Pub.
Apl. How.
White, James. 1804-1862. Historical writer. Au-
thor Historical Landmarks, The Eighteen Christian
Centuries, Hist. of France, Hist. of England, etc.
Pub. Apl. Rou.
White, Joseph Blanco. 1775-1841. Miscellaneous
writer. His Sonnet on Night is widely known and
esteemed.
Whitehead, Paul.
and satirical.
1710-1774. Poet. Style witty
Whitehead, Wm. 1715-1785. Poet. Of his seven
indifferent dramas the best are Creusa and The
Roman Father. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
Whitelocke, Bulstrode. 1605-1676. Historical
writer. His Memorials of Eng. Affairs and other
works are of much value.
Wicklif, John. 1324-1384. Reformer. Translator
of the Bible. See T. Arnold's Select Eng. Works
of 1871. See Biography, by Vaughan, 1853. Pub.
Mac.
Wilberforce, Robert Isaac. 1802-1857. Theolog-
ical writer. Son to W. W.
Wilberforce, Samuel. 1805-1873. Bp. Oxford.
Son to W. W. Author Hist. P. E. Church in
America, Sermons, Eucharistica, etc.
See Life,
1883. Pub. Ca. Dut.
154
Handbook of English Authors.
Wilberforce, Wm. 1759-1833. Philanthropist. Au-
thor Practical View of Christianity, etc. See Life,
by his sons, 5 vols., London, 1838; also, Life, by
John Stoughton.
Wilde, Oscar. 1856
Irish poet. Charmides
and Ave Imperatrix are among his finest poems.
His verse is musical, but frequently erotic. See The
Biograph, Aug. 1880. Pub. Rob.
1721-1772.
Scotch poet. Author
Wilkie, Wm.
of The Epigoniad.
Wilkins, John. 1614-1672. Bp. Chester. Of his
many works, the chief is the Discovery of a New
World, which attempts to prove the feasibility of a
passage from the earth to the moon.
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner. 1797-1875. Egyp-
tologist. Author Manners and Customs of the
Ancient Egyptians, Architecture of Ancient Egypt,
Modern Egypt, etc. See Memoir, by his wife, 1876.
Pub. Har. Lit.
Wilkinson, John James Garth. 1812
Phy-
sician. Author Biography of Swedenborg, The
Human Body, The Ministry of Health, etc. Pub.
Lip.
Williams, Sir Chas. Hanbury. 1709-1759. Satirist
and poet.
Williams, Helen Maria. 1762–1827. Poet and
political writer. Author of the familiar hymn be-
ginning" While Thee I seek, Protecting Power."
Williams, Monier. 1819
Sanskrit scholar.
Author Eng. and Sanskrit Dict., and Sanskrit and
Eng. Dict., etc. Pub. Mac.
Williams, Rowland. 1817-1870. Welsh theologian.
See Life, by his wife, 1874.
Wills, Wm. Gorman. 1828
novelist. Eugene Aram, Jane
Dramatist and
Shore, Charles I.,
Handbook of English Authors.
155
and Mary Stuart are some of his plays. Pub.
Har.
Wills, Wm. Henry.
miscellaneous writer.
1810-1880.
Journalist and
Pub. Har.
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester. 1647-1680.
Poet. A writer of numerous gay, witty, but ex-
tremely dicentious lyrics.
1816
Willmott, Robert Aris. 1809-1863. Poet and
biographer. Author Life of Jeremy Taylor, and
editor of Herbert, Gray, Cowper, etc. Pub. Rou.
Wilson, Daniel.
Miscellaneous writer.
Author of Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Prehis-
toric Man, Caliban the Missing Link, Chatterton :
a Biographical Study, etc. Pub. Mac.
Wilson, George. 1818-1859. Chemist and essayist.
Author Five Gateways of Knowledge, Life Prof.
Forbes, etc. See Memoir, by his sister. Pub. Mac.
Wilson, Horace Hayman. 1788-1860. Sanskrit
scholar. Author Hist. Cashmere, translation of
the Rig-Veda, etc.
66
Wilson, John, Christopher North." 1785-1854.
Poet and essayist. Author of the poems The Isle
of Palms and The City of the Plague, of the stories
Margaret Lyndsay and Lights and Shadows of Scot-
tish Life, and of the famous Noctes Ambrosianæ.
His style could be tender and pathetic, but as a re-
viewer it was often coarse, prejudiced, and brutal.
See Ferrier's edition, 12 vols. See Life, by Mrs.
Gordon, 1862. Pub. Arm. Ca. Wid.
Wilson, Sir Thomas. 1523-1581. Author of The
Art of Rhetoric, etc.
Wilson, Wm.
1801-1860. Scotch poet. See Grant
Wilson's Poets of Scotland.
Winchelsea, Countess Anne. C. 1700-1720. Poet.
Author of The Nocturnal Reverie, etc. See Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
156
Handbook of English Authors.
Wingate, David.
1828
Scotch poet. Au-
thor Annie Weir, etc. See Grant Wilson's Poets
of Scotland.
Winkworth, Catherine. 1825-1878. Hymnologist.
Editor Hymns of the Ages, Lyra Germanica, etc.
Pub. Mac.
Winslow, Forbes Benignus. 1810-1874. Physi-
cian. Author Physic and Physicians, The Anat-
omy of Suicide, Lectures on Insanity, Obscure Dis-
eases of the Brain, etc.
Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal. 1802-1865. Mis-
cellaneous writer. Author works on religion, sci-
ence, art, literature, etc.
Wither, George. 1588-1677. Poet. A voluminous
writer, best known by his Shepherd's Resolution
and The Steadfast Shepherd. Style forcible and
original. See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2, and Ward's
Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Wolcott [wol'kot, or wool'kot], John, "Peter Pin-
dar." 1738-1819. Poet. Author of numerous
witty, satirical poems, as The Lousiad, Bozzy and
Piozzi, and the Lyric Odes of Peter Pindar, many
of which were in ridicule of George III.
Wolfe, Charles. 1791-1823.
!
Irish poet. Author
of the famous Lines on the Burial of Sir John
Moore. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. See Godwin, Mrs. Mary.
Wood, Anthony. 1632-1695. Antiquary. Author
Athenæ Oxonienses, etc. See Rawlinson's Life,
1811.
Wood, Mrs. Ellen [Price].
1820
Novelist.
Of her many novels, East Lynne is the most fa-
mous. Johnny Ludlow is one of her best books.
Pub. Di. Pet.
Wood, Mrs. Henry. See Wood, Mrs. Ellen.
Handbook of English Authors.
157
Wood, John George.
1827
Naturalist. Au-
thor Homes without Hands, Bible Animals, Com-
mon Objects of the Sea and Shore, etc.
Har. Por. Rou.
Woodhouselee, Lord. See Tytler, A. F.
Woolner, Thomas.
1825
Pub. Cas.
Sculptor and poet.
Author My Beautiful Lady, etc. Style delicate and
pure. Pub. Mac.
Worboise, Mrs. Emma Jane. 1825
Novelist.
Author Helen Bury, Lights and Shadows of Chris-
tian Life, Thornycroft Hall, etc.
Wordsworth, Chas. 1806
Pub. Rou. Do.
Bp. St. Andrew's.
W. W.
Author
Son to succeeding. Neph. to
Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible,
The Bible in the Authorized Version with Notes and
Introduction, etc. Pub. Dut. Mac.
Bro. to
Pub.
Wordsworth, Christopher. 1774-1846.
W. W. Author Eccl. Biography, etc.
Wordsworth, Christopher. 1807-1885. Bp. Lin-
coln. Son to preceding. Author Hist. Church in
Ireland, Memoirs Wm. Wordsworth, etc.
Dut.
Wordsworth, Wm. 1770-1850. His poems number
in all 485, including the long poems, The Excursion,
Peter Bell, White Doe, and the Prelude. The best
of his verse is contained in the Ode on Immortality,
Tintern Abbey, Ode to Duty, Laodamia, The
Cuckoo, Lucy, and a few of the Sonnets, some of
which are nearly perfect of their kind. Much of
his verse contains little of real interest, but his best
is poetry of the very highest type. See Grosart's
complete edition, 1875. See Lives, by Bp. Words-
worth, Phillips, and Paxton Hood; also, Myers's
Wordsworth, in Eng. Men of Letters, Masson's
Essays, and Shairp's Studies in Poetry. Pub.
Hou. Mac. Por. Rou.
158
Handbook of English Authors.
Worsley, Philip Stanhope.
Translator of the Iliad.
1866. Poet.
Wotton, Sir Henry. 1586-1639. Poet and miscel-
laneous writer. His most familiar poem is the one
beginning, "How happy is he born and taught."
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Wotton, Wm. 1666–1726. Author of the Reflec-
tions upon Ancient and Modern Learning, one of
the original sources of the Boyle and Bentley con-
troversy.
Wrangham, Francis. 1769-1843. Poet and trans-
lator from the classics.
Wraxall, Sir Fred'k Chas. Lascelles.
1828-1865.
Novelist. Author Wild Oats, Camp Life, Mem-
oirs Queen Hortense, etc.
Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel Wm. 1751-1831. Histori-
cal writer. Author Memoirs Kings of France, Hist.
France, Historical Memoirs of my own Time, etc.
Wright, Thomas.
1810-1877. Archæologist. Au-
thor Domestic Manners in England in the Middle
Ages, Wanderings of an Antiquary, Hist. of Cari-
cature and the Grotesque, Womankind in Western
Europe, etc. Pub. Apl.
Wright, Wm. Aldis.
1836
Shakespearean
scholar. Co-editor with Clark of the Cambridge
Shakespeare, 9 vols., 1866, and of the Globe Shake-
speare. Pub. Mac.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas. 1503-1542. Poet. Author of
love lyrics, one of the finest being Forget not yet
the Tried Intent. See Poems with Memoir, 1831.
See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1. Pub. Hou.
Wycherley [witch-er-li], Wm. 1640-1715. Drama-
tist. The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer are
the best of his plays, all of which are witty, sprightly,
and immoral. See edition of 1831, with Congreve,
Farquhar, and Vanbrugh. Pub. Rou.
Handbook of English Authors.
159
Wyckliffe. See Wiclif, John.
Wynter, Andrew. 1819-1876. Miscellaneous writer.
Author Our Social Bees, Curiosities of Civilization,
Borderlands of Insanity, etc. Pub. Put.
Yalden, Thomas. 1671-1736. Poet. A Hymn to
Darkness is his best known poem.
Yates, Edmund Hodgson.
1831
Novelist,
Author Black Sheep, The Yellow Flag, Kissing
the Rod, Wrecked in Port, etc. Pub. Apl. Har.
Rou. Do.
Yonge [yung], Charles Duke. 1812
Histo-
rian. Author Hist. British Navy, Hist. Eng. Revo-
lution of 1688, Hist. France Under the Bourbons,
Three Centuries of Modern Hist., etc. Pub. Apl.
Har.
Yonge, Charlotte Mary. 1823
Novelist.
writer, of
Cousin to C. D. Y. An industrious
whose 50 vols. more than 30 are fictions. The Heir
of Redclyffe is her most noted book; others are
Heartsease, Hopes and Fears, and The Daisy
Chain. Her work is all careful, well intentioned,
and strongly High Church in character. Pub. Apl.
Dut. Est. Har. Ho. Lip. Lo. Mac. Phi. Rob.
Youatt [yoo'at], Wm. 1777-1847. Veterinary writer.
Author of The Horse, Cattle, Sheep, The Pig, and
other similar standard works. Pub. Ju. Lip. Por.
Rou.
Young, Arthur.
1741-1820. Agricultural writer of
note. Author Rural Economy, Six Months' Tour
through North of England, etc. See Allibone's
Dict. and Donaldson's Agricultural Biography.
Young, Edward. 1684-1765. Poet. Author Night
Thoughts, etc. Style strained and affected. See
Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3. Pub. Apl. Ca. Hou.
160
Handbook of English Authors.
Young, Thomas. 1773-1829. Scientific writer of
eminence. See Peacock's Life of.
Zimmern, Helen. 1846
[Born in Germany.]
Littérateur. Author the juvenile tales, Stories in
Precious Stones, Told by the Waves, and Tales
from the Edda, Arthur Schopenhauer: his life and
philosophy, G. E. Lessing: his life and works,
Preface to Bohn's ed. of Lessing, Half Hours with
Foreign Novelists, Life of Maria Edgeworth, The
Epic of Kings: a paraphrase of the Persian poet.
Firdusi, translations of the Queen of Roumania's
Pilgrim Sorrow, and Beureth's Bernardino Ochinus,
etc. Pub. Ho. Rob.
Zouch, Richard.
writer.
Zouch, Thomas.
c. 1590-1660. A voluminous legal
1737-1815. Miscellaneous writer.
Author Memoirs Sir Philip Sidney, Izaak Walton,
etc.
ADDENDA.
Adams, Wm. Henry Davenport.
1829
Lit-
térateur. Author The Bird World, The Arctic
World, English Party Leaders and English Parties,
Plain Living and High Thinking, etc. Pub. Est.
Rou.
Adams, W. Davenport. 185-
Son to pre-
ceding. Author Dictionary of English Literature,
etc. Pub. Cas.
Amory, Thomas. 1691-1788. Author Memoirs of
Ladies of Great Britain, Life of John Buncle, Esq.,
etc.
Anstey, F. See Guthrie.
Apperley, Charles James, "Nimrod." 1777-1843.
Sporting writer. Author Nimrod's Hunting Tours,
The Horse and the Hound, etc.
Argyll, Duke of. See Campbell.
Arnold, Arthur.
1833
Bro. to Edwin A.
Author Hist. of the Cotton Famine, From the Le-
the novels Hever Court, and Ralph, etc.
vant;
Arnold, Frederick. 1833
•
Author Public Life
of Lord Macaulay, Christ Church Days, Turning
Points in Life, Hist. of Greece, etc.
Bain, Alexander. 1818
Philosopher. Au-
thor The Senses and the Intellect, The Emotions
and the Will, Study of Character, Mental and
162
Addenda.
Pub.
Moral Science, Logic, Mind and Body, Education
as a Science, Life of John Stuart Mill, etc.
Apl.
Balfour, John Hutton. 1808-1884. Botanist. Au-
thor Manual of Botany, The Plants of Scripture,
Phyto-Theology, etc.
Banks, Mrs. George Linnæus. See Banks, Mrs.
Isabella.
Banks, Mrs. Isabella [Varley].
1810
1821
Nov-
elist and poet. Author God's Providence House,
Wooers and Winners, Ivy Leaves, Ripples and
Breakers, etc. See Lit. World, Feb. 9, 1884.
Barnes, Wm.
Poet and Philologist.
Author Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect,
Grammar of the Dorset Dialect, etc. Pub. Rob.
Bastian, Henry Charlton. 1837 Physician.
Author The Beginnings of Life, Evolution and the
Origin of Life, Common Forms of Paralysis from
Brain Disease, etc. Pub. Apl. Mac.
Beattie, Wm. 1793-1875. Poet and littérateur.
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Germany, Hist. of the Waldenses, etc.
Beatty, Pakenham Thomas. 1855
Poet.
Author To My Lady, Three Women of the People,
Maria: a tragedy.
Bennet, Wm. Cox. 1820
Poet.
Author
Queen Eleanor's Vengeance, Songs for Sailors,
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Benson, Edward White.
1829
Abp. Canter-
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Blackburn, Henry. 1830
Traveler. Author
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Blackwood, Frederick Temple Hamilton, Earl of
Dufferin. 1826
Author Letters from High
Latitudes, Honorable Impulsia Gushington, Irish
Emigration, etc.
Blind, Mathilde. 1850
Author The Proph-
ecy of St. Oran and Other Poems, Life of George
Eliot, Tarantella: a novel, etc. Pub. Rob.
Bray, Mrs. Anna Eliza [Kempe] [Stothard]. 1790–
1883. Novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author
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Heart, Life of Thos. Stothard, Life of Handel, etc.
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Browne, Frances. 1816
of Our Land.
Browning, Oscar. 1837
Poet. Author Songs
Littérateur. Author
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1820-1874, Modern France: 1815-1880, etc., and
articles in Encyc. Brit. on Cæsar, Carthage, Dante,
Goethe, etc. Pub. Har.
Burnaby, Frederick. 1842-1885. Traveler. Au-
thor A Ride to Khiva, Travels and Adventures in
Central Asia, and On Horseback Through Asia
Minor.
Burton, Richard Francis. 1821
Traveler.
Author Lake Regions of Central Africa, Highlands
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Buxton, Mrs. Bertha H. [Bee].
1844-1881. Dra-
matic novelist. Author Jennie of the Prince's,
Great Grenfell Gardens, Nell: On and Off the
Stage, From the Wings, etc. Pub. Har. Rou.
Caird [kård], John. 1823
Author the Uni-
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Religion, etc. Pub. Mac.
Campbell, George Douglas, Duke of Argyll. 1823
Author The Reign of Law, Primeval Man,
The Eastern Question, The Unity of Nature, etc.
Pub. Put.
Chamier, Frederick.
1796-1870. Naval novelist.
Author Ben Brace, Saucy Arethusa, Tom Bowling,
etc. Pub. Rou.
Clark, Wm. George. 1821-1878. Shakespearean
scholar. Co-editor with Wm. Aldis Wright, of the
Cambridge and Globe editions of Shakespeare.
Coleridge, Derwent.
1800-1883. Miscellaneous
writer. Son to S. T. Coleridge. Author Scriptural
Character of the English Church, Memoir of Hart-
ley Coleridge, Life of Praed, etc.
Colvin, Sidney. 1845
Art writer. Author
Children in Italian and English Design, Albert
Dürer, Landor in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. Pub.
Har.
Congreve, Richard. 1818
Author The Roman
Empire of the West, The Catechism of the Posi-
tive Religion, etc.
Conway, Hugh. See Fargus.
Cook, Dutton. 1832-1883. Novelist and dramatic
critic. Author of Young Mr. Nightingale, Art in
England, The Book of the Play, etc.
Cotterill, Henry. 1812
Pub. Dut.
Bp. Edinburgh. Au-
thor The Seven Ages of the Church, Does Science
Addenda.
165
aid Faith in regard to Creation, The Legitimate
Use of Prophecy, etc.
Courthope, Wm. John.
1842
Poet. Author
The Paradise of Birds, Addison in Eng. Men of
Letters, etc. Pub. Har.
Craik, Georgiana Marion.
1831
Novelist.
Author of Faith Unwin's Ordeal, Mildred, Sylvia's
Choice, Dorcas, Two Women, Winnifred's Wooing,
Only a Butterfly, The Cousin from India, Anne
Warwick, Miss Moore, etc. Pub. Har. Rou.
Creighton [cry'-ton], Mandell. 1843
Histo-
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Elizabeth, A Short Hist. of England, Life of Simon
de Montfort, Hist. of the Papacy During the Ref-
ormation, etc. Pub. Apl. Hou. Mac.
Crosland, Mrs. Camilla [Toulmin]. 1812
Miscellaneous writer. Author Hubert Freeth's
Prosperity, The Island of the Rainbow, Hildred
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Crosland, Mrs. Newton. See Crosland, Mrs. Ca-
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Darley, George. 1785-1849. Poet and critic. Au-
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Davies, John Llewellyn. 1826
Theologian.
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Gospel and Modern Life, Theology and Morality,
etc. Pub. Mac.
Davies, Wm. 1829
Poet. Author Songs of
Poet. Author Ranolf
a Wayfarer, The Shepherd's Garden.
Domett, Alfred. 1811
and Amelia, Flotsam and Jetsam, etc. Best known
by his Christmas hymn: "It was the calm and si-
lent night." Pub. Le.
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Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings. 1810
Poet and
essayist. Author The Return of the Guards and
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Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant. 1829
Author Studies on European Politics, Elgin
Speeches, Notes of an Indian Journey, Political
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Dufferin, Earl of. See Blackwood.
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan. 1816
Irish song
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Fane, Julian. 1827-1870. Poet. His sonnets have
been much praised. See Life, by Lord Lytton.
Fargus, Frederick John, "Hugh Conway." 1847-
1885. Novelist. Author Called Back, Dark Days,
A Family Affair, and Bound Together. Pub. Ho.
Fleay [fa], Frederick Gard. 1830 - Poet and
littérateur. Author three volumes of verse: AL-
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Hints on Teaching, Lect. on Education, Logical
English Grammar, Guide to Chaucer and Spenser,
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Forsyth, Wm. 1812
Miscellaneous writer.
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Galton, Francis. 1822
Author Hereditary
Addenda.
167
Genius, English Men of Science, Record of Family
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Garnett, Richard. 1835
Poet. Author Pri-
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Geikie, Archibald.
1835
Geologist. Author
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Gleig [glěg], George Robert. 1796
Author
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Guthrie, F. Anstey.
18—
Novelist. Author
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Poet and phy-
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Morrow, etc.
Hamilton, Eugene Lee. 18—
Poet. Author
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Novelist and littéra-
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thor of a fine prose translation of Faust.
168
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Jebb, Richard Claverhouse.
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English Men of Letters, etc.
1841
Greek
Orators, Bentley in
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King, Mrs. Harriet E. [Hamilton]. 1840 · Poet.
Author Aspromonte, The
Disciples, Book of
Dreams, etc.
Lee, Vernon. See Paget.
Loftie, Wm. J. 1839
Antiquarian and his-
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Marvin, Charles.
185-
Author The Russian
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World, Reconnoitering Central Asia, The Russians
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Maudsley, Henry. 1835
Physician. Author
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Meredith, George.
1828
Novelist and poet.
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Meynell, Mrs. Alice Thompson. 1850
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Moore, George.
1852
Poet
Irish novelist and
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Morison, James Cotter. 1831
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Addenda.
169
Morris, Lewis. 1833
Poet.
Author Songs
Songs of Two
Unsung, Gwen, The Ode of Life,
Worlds, The Epic of Hades, etc. Pub. Rob.
Munby, Arthur Joseph. 1828
Poet. Author
Elegiacs, Verses New and Old, Dorothy, etc.
Neale, John Mason.
1818-1866. Hymnologist and
historian. Author Hist. Holy Eastern Church,
Hymns, Sermons for the Church Year, The Celes-
tial Country, etc. Pub. Dut.
Nimrod. See Apperley.
Noel, Roden. 18-
the Heights and Deeps.
Poet. Author Songs of
Paget, Violet, "Vernon Lee."
1856- —. Litté-
rateur. Author Studies of the Eighteenth Century
in Italy, Belcaro, Ottilie, Euphorion, The Countess
of Albany in Famous Women Series, Miss Brown,
etc. Pub. Rob.
Patterson, Robert Hogarth. 1821
Writer
on finance. Author The Economy of Capital, The
Science of Finance, Essays in History and Art,
etc.
Payne, John.
1843
Poet. Author The
Masque of Shadows, Intaglios, Songs of Life and
Labor, etc.
Philp, Robert Kemp. 1819-1882. Compiler of En-
quire Within, The Biblical Reason Why, Hist. of
Progress in Great Britain, and other popular
works.
Pollock, Walter Herries. 1850
Bro. to F.
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tures on French Poets, The Modern French Thea-
tre, The Picture's Secret: a novel, and Verse of
Two Tongues.
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Pullen, Wm. Henry. 1836
Author The
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Reid, Thomas Weymss. 1842
Journalist.
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Portraits, Politicians of To-day, The Land of the
Bey, Gladys Fane: a novel, etc.
Robinson, Samuel. 1793-1884. Persian scholar.
Translator of Firdousi, Hafiz, Sadi, and other Per-
sian poets. See Persian Poetry for English Read-
ers.
Saunders, Katharine.
18—
Novelist. Au-
thor Gideon's Rock, The High Mills, The Haunted
Crust, etc.
Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara. 1830-1862. Novelist.
Author Rumor, Counterparts, Almost a Heroine,
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Simcox, Edith J. 1844
Sister to G. A. Sim-
COX. Author Natural Law: an Essay on Ethics,
and Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and
Lovers. Pub. Hou. Os.
Simcox, Wm. Henry. 1843
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Simcox. Author Beginnings of the Christian
Church, editor Tacitus's Histories, and, with G. A.
S., of Demosthenes and Eschines de Corona.
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Sowerby, George Brittingham. 1812-1884. Artist
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Stanley, Edward Geoffrey Smith, Earl of Derby.
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Todhunter, Isaac. 1820-1884. Mathematician of
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Walford, Cornelius. 1827
Statistician. Au-
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Walpole, Spencer Horatio. 1806
Histo-
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Ward, Adolphus Wm. 18-
Author Chau-
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