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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu

Literature; General literature

(1720-1800) Critic, daughter of a gentleman of Yorkshire, married a grandson of Lord Sandwich. She was one of the original "blue-stockings," and her house was a literary centre. She wrote an Essay on ...

Robert Lowth

Literature; General literature

(1710-1787) Theologian and scholar, son of William Lowth, Prebendary of Winchester, and author of a Commentary on the Prophets, was born at Winchester, and educated there and at Oxford. ntering the ...

Mrs. Catherine (Sawbridge) Macaulay

Literature; General literature

(1731-1791) Daughter of a landed proprietor of Kent, was an advocate of republicanism, and a sympathiser with the French Revolution. She wrote a History of England from the Accession of James I. to ...

David Macbeth Moir

Literature; General literature

(1798-1851) Poet and miscellaneous writer, was a doctor at Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, and a frequent contributor, under the signature of ?, to Blackwood's Magazine in which appeared Mansie Waugh, a ...

James Matthew Barrie

Literature; General literature

(1860) Novelist and dramatist. Auld Licht Idylls, When a Man's Single (1888), A Window in Thrums (1889), My Lady Nicotine (1890), The Little Minister (1891), Sentimental Tommy, Margaret Ogilvy ...

Barnabe Googe

Literature; General literature

(1540-1594) Poet and translator, born at Lincoln, studied at both Cambridge and Oxford. e was a kinsman of Cecil, who gave him employment in Ireland. He translated from the Latin of Manzolli The ...

Thomas Keightley

Literature; General literature

(1789-1872) Historian, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, wrote works on mythology and folklore, and at the request of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, a series of text-books on English, Greek, and other ...