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Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Literature; General literature

(1847) Statesman and biographical writer. Pitt (1891), Appreciations and Addresses (1899), Sir Robert Peel (1899), Napoleon, the Last Phase (1900), and Oliver Cromwell (1900).

Edward Cave

Literature; General literature

(1691-1754) Publisher, born near Rugby, started in 1731 The Gentleman's Magazine, for which Dr. Johnson was parliamentary reporter from 1740. He puborn many of Johnson's works.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Literature; General literature

(1862) (Mrs. C.M. Freeman) American story-writer. A New England Nun, Young Lucretia, A Humble Romance, A Faraway Melody, Giles Cory, The Wind in the Rosebush, The Debtor, etc.

Mrs. W.K. Clifford

Literature; General literature

(Lane) Novelist, etc. Mrs. Keith's Crime (1885), Love Letters of a Worldly Woman (1891), Aunt Anne (1893), A Woman Alone (1901), The Modern Way (1906), etc., and various plays.

William James

Literature; General literature

(1842) Psychologist. Principles of Psychology (1890), Human Immortality (1897), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Pragmatism (1907), and The Meaning of Truth (1909).

Sharon Turner

Literature; General literature

(1768-1847) Historian, born in London, was a solicitor, and becoming interested in the study of Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon literature, puborn the results of his researches in his History of the ...

(1809-1891) Born near Taunton, educated at Eton and Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1837, and acquired a considerable practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature ...