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Henry Longueville Mansel

Literature; General literature

(1820-1871) Metaphysician, son of a clergyman, was born at Cosgrave, Northamptonshire, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Oxford. e took orders, was Reader in Theology at Magdalen College ...

George Lillie Craik

Literature; General literature

(1798-1866) Writer on English literature, etc., born at Kennoway, Fife, and educated at St. Andrews, went to London in 1824, where he wrote largely for the "Society for the Promotion of Useful ...

Gerald Griffin

Literature; General literature

(1803-1840) Dramatist, novelist, and poet, son of a tradesman, born and educated in Limerick, he went in 1823 to London, where most of his literary work was produced. In 1838 he returned to Ireland ...

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Literature; General literature

(1823-1901) Novelist, only daughter of a landed gentleman of Hampshire, was born near Winchester, and in her girlhood came under the influence of Keble, who was a near neighbour. She began writing in ...

Sir Henry Spelman

Literature; General literature

(1564?-1641) Historian and antiquary, born at Congham, Norfolk, studied at Cambridge, and entered Lincoln's Inn. He wrote valuable works on legal and ecclesiastical antiquities, including History of ...

Charles Brockden Brown

Literature; General literature

(1771-1810) Novelist, born in Philadelphia, belonged to a Quaker family, became a lawyer, but exchanged law for literature, and has the distinction of being the first American to adopt a purely ...

George Long

Literature; General literature

(1800-1879) Classical scholar, educated at Cambridge. He was Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1824-28, of Greek at University College, London, 1828-31, ...