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Fitzmaurice-James Kelly

Literature; General literature

(1858) Writer on Spanish literature. Life of Cervantes (1892), History of Spanish Literature (1898), Lope de Vega and the Spanish Drama (1902), Cervantes in England (1905), edited complete Works of ...

Oliver Elton

Literature; General literature

(1861) Critical writer, etc. The Augustan Ages (Periods of European Literature) (1890), Michael Drayton (1906); has edited some of Milton's poems and translated Mythical Books of Saxo Grammaticus' ...

William Hamilton (of Gilbertfield)

Literature; General literature

(1665?-1751) Poet, served in the army, from which he retired with the rank of Lieutenant. He wrote poetical Epistles to Allan Ramsay, and an abridgment in modern Scotch of Blind Harry's Life of Sir ...

Edward Coate Pinkney

Literature; General literature

(1802-1828) Born in London, where his father was U.S. ambassador. He wrote a number of light, graceful short poems, but fell a victim to ill-health and a morbid melancholy at 25. His longest poem is ...

Enoch Arnold Bennett

Literature; General literature

(1867) Novelist, etc. A Man from the North (1898), Polite Farces (1899), Anna of the Five Towns (1902), A Great Man (1904), The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907), Buried Alive (1908), Old Wives' ...

Henry George Liddell

Literature; General literature

(1811-1898) Historian, etc. Ed. at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, of which in 1855 he became Dean. He wrote a History of Ancient Rome (1855), and, along with R. Scott, puborn a Greek-English ...

Thomas Hodgkin

Literature; General literature

(1831) Historian. Italy and her Invaders, 8 volumes (1880-1899), Letters of Cassiodorus (1886), Dynasty of Theodosius (1889), Life of Theodoric (1891), Life of Charles the Great (Foreign Statesmen ...