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General literature

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Literature; General literature

(1809-1894) Essayist, novelist, and poet, was born of good Dutch and English stock at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the seat of Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. He studied law, then medicine, first ...

William Congreve

Literature; General literature

(1670-1729) Dramatist, was born in Yorkshire. In boyhood he was taken to Ireland, and educated at Kilkenny and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1688 he returned to England and entered the Middle ...

Mrs. Eliza (Fowler) Haywood

Literature; General literature

(1693-1756) Dramatist and novelist, born in London, was early married to a Mr. Haywood, but the union turning out unhappily, she took to the stage, upon which she appeared in Dublin about 1715. She ...

Theodore Parker

Literature; General literature

(1810-1860) Theologian, born at Lexington, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard, was an indefatigable student, and made himself master of many languages. In 1837 he was settled at West Roxbury as a ...

Richard Jefferies

Literature; General literature

(1848-1887) Naturalist and novelist, son of a farmer, was born at Swindon, Wilts. He began his literary career on the staff of a local newspaper, and first attracted attention by a letter in the ...

Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Literature; General literature

(1825-1900) Novelist and poet, born at Longworth, Berks, educated at Tiverton School and Oxford, practised for a short time as a lawyer but, owing to his health, gave this up, and took to ...

William Collins

Literature; General literature

(1721-1759) Poet, son of a respectable hatter at Chichester, where he was born He was educated at Chichester, Winchester, and Oxford. is is a melancholy career. Disappointed with the reception of his ...

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