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Samuel Phillips

Literature; General literature

(1814-1854) Novelist, of Jewish descent, studied for the Church at Göttingen and Cambridge, but his father dying, he was obliged to give up his intention and take to business, in which, however, he ...

Henry Austin Dobson

Literature; General literature

(1840) Poet and biographer. Poems, Vignettes in Rhyme (1873), Proverbs in Porcelain (1877), Old World Idylls (1883), At the Sign of the Lyre (1885). Prose, Thomas Bewick and his Pupils (1884), ...

Richard Edwards

Literature; General literature

(1523?-1566) Poet, was at Oxford, and went to Court, where he was made a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and master of the singing boys. He had a high reputation for his comedies and interludes. His ...

Francis J. Child

Literature; General literature

(1825-1896) English scholar, born at Boston, Mass., was a prof. at Harvard, one of the foremost students of early English, and especially of ancient ballads in America. He edited the American edition ...

Baring-Sabine Gould

Literature; General literature

(1834) Novelist and folk-lorist, etc. Iceland, its Scenes and Sagas (1862), Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (1866), Origin and Development of Religious Belief (1869-70), Lives of the Saints ...

Israel Zangwill

Literature; General literature

(1864) Novelist. Children of the Ghetto (1892), Merely Mary Ann (1893), Ghetto Tragedies (1893), The King of Schnorrers (1894), Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898), They that Walk in Darkness (1899), The ...

Margaret (Power), Countess of Blessington

Literature; General literature

(1789-1849) Married as her second husband the 1st Earl of Blessington, with whom she travelled much on the Continent, where she met Lord Byron, her Conversations with whom she puborn in 1834. This is ...