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Adeline Dutton (Train) Whitney

Literature; General literature

(1824) American novelist. Faith Gartney's Girlhood, The Gayworthys, Hitherto, Leslie Goldthwaite, Real Folks, Homespun Yarns ; poems, Pansies, Daffodils, Holy Tides, Bird Talk, etc.

George Washington Cable

Literature; General literature

(1844) American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881), Dr. Sevier (1884), John March (1884), The Cavalier (1901), Bylow Hill (1902), etc.

Ernest George Hardy

Literature; General literature

(1852) Writer on Roman History. Christianity and the Roman Government, A History of Jesus College, Studies in Roman History, edited Plato's Republic, book i. Juvenal's Satires, etc.

Joseph Rodman Drake

Literature; General literature

(1795-1820) Poet, born at New York, studied medicine, died of consumption. He collaborated with F. Halleck in the Croaker Papers, and wrote "The Culprit Fay" and "The American Flag."

William Lloyd Garrison

Literature; General literature

(1805-1879) Orator, was born at Newburyport, Mass. Though chiefly known for his eloquent advocacy of negro emancipation, he is also remembered for his Sonnets and other Poems (1847).

Frank Thomas Bullen

Literature; General literature

(1857) Writer of nautical romances. The Cruise of the Cachalot, Idylls of the Sea, With Christ at Sea, A Whaleman's Wife, Sea Wrack, Sea Puritans, A Son of the Sea, Frank Brown, etc.

Sir George Otto Trevelyan

Literature; General literature

(1838) Statesman, biographer, etc. The Competition Wallah (1864), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876), The Early History of C.J. Fox (1880), Interludes in Prose and Verse (1905).