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George Campbell

Literature; General literature

(1719-1796) Theologian and philosopher, was a minister of the Church of Scotland at Aberdeen, and Principal and Professor of Divinity in Marischal College there. His Dissertation on Miracles (1763), ...

6th Earl of Charles Sackville Dorset

Literature; General literature

(1638-1706) Poet, was one of the dissolute and witty courtiers of Charles II., and a friend of Sir C. Sedley (q.v.), in whose orgies he participated. He was, however, a patron of literature, and a ...

Richard Henry Dana

Literature; General literature

(1787-1879) Novelist and critic, born at Cambridge, Mass., was called to the Bar in 1817. Among his novels are Tom Thornton and Paul Felton, both somewhat violent and improbable tales, and his poems, ...

William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord Dalling and Bulwer

Literature; General literature

(1801-1872) Elder brother of Lord Lytton (q.v.), and a distinguished diplomatist. He represented England at Madrid, Washington (where he concluded the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty), Florence, Bucharest, and ...

William Hurrell Mallock

Literature; General literature

(1849) Novelist and writer on politics, evolution, etc. The New Republic (1877), The New Paul and Virginia (1878), Studies of Contemporary Superstitions, Social Equality, Property and Progress, ...

Robert Carruthers

Literature; General literature

(1799-1878) Journalist and miscellaneous writer, born in Dumfriesshire, was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon, and wrote a History of Huntingdon (1824). In 1828 he became editor of the Inverness ...

Herbert George Wells

Literature; General literature

(1866) Novelist. Select Conversations with an Uncle (1895), The Time Machine (1895), The Stolen Bacillus (1895), The Wonderful Visit, The Wheels of Chance, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The ...