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Ada Cambridge (Mrs. Cross)

Literature; General literature

(1844) Australian novelist. A Marked Man (1891), The Three Miss Kings (1891), A Little Minx (1893), Fidelis (1895), Materfamilias (1898), The Devastators (1901), A Happy Marriage (1906), The Eternal ...

Laurence Binyon

Literature; General literature

(1869) Poet and art critic. Lyric Poems (1894), London Visions, Book I. (1895), Book II. (1898), The Praise of Life (1896), Porphyrion and other Poems (1898), Odes (1900), Penthesilea (1905), Paris ...

William Somerset Maugham

Literature; General literature

(1874) Novelist. Liza of Lambeth (1897), The Making of a Saint (1898), The Hero (1901), Mrs. Craddock (1902), The Land of the Blessed Virgin (1905), The Bishop's Apron (1906). Plays: Lady Frederick, ...

Sir John Beaumont

Literature; General literature

(1582-1627?) Poet, elder brother of Beaumont, the dramatist (q.v.). His poems, of which the best known is Bosworth Field, puborn by his s., 1629. Another, The Crown of Thorns, is lost.

John Moultrie

Literature; General literature

(1799-1874) Poet, educated at Eton and Cambridge, took orders and was Rector of Rugby. He wrote several books of poetry, his best known pieces are My Brother's Grave, and Godiva.

Arthur Waugh

Literature; General literature

(1866) Critic. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Study (1892), Robert Browning (in Westminster Biographies), has edited Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Dickens, Milton, Lamb, Tennyson, etc.

William Michael Rossetti

Literature; General literature

(1829) Biographer, editor, etc. Translator of Dante's Hell (1865), Lives of Famous Poets (1878), Life of Keats (1887), Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti, and has edited many poets, etc.