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William Gilmore Simms

Literature; General literature

(1806-1870) Novelist, etc., born at Charleston, South Carolina, began his literary life with journalism. He then for some time tried poetry, but without any distinct success except occasionally in ...

Sir Francis Hastings Doyle

Literature; General literature

(1810-1888) Poet, belonged to a military family which produced several distinguished officers, including his father, who bore the same name. He was born near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and educated at ...

James Nayler

Literature; General literature

(1617?-1660) Quaker theologian, son of a Yorkshire yeoman, who, after serving in the Parliamentary army, joined the Quakers in 1651, became one of Foxe's most trusted helpers, and exercised a ...

Thomas Ken

Literature; General literature

(1637-1711) Religious writer, son of an attorney, was born at Little Berkhampstead, educated at Winchester and Oxford, and entering the Church received the living of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, where ...

Richard Garnett

Literature; General literature

(1835-1906) Biographer and writer on literature, son of Richard Garnett, an assistant keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. B. at Lichfield, and educated at a school in, Bloomsbury, he ...

Stirling-Sir William Maxwell

Literature; General literature

(1818-1878) Historian and writer on art, son of Archibald Stirling of Keir, succeeded to the estates and title of his uncle, Sir John Maxwell of Pollok, as well as to Keir, educated at Cambridge, ...

Henry Edward Manning

Literature; General literature

(1808-1892) Cardinal and theologian. Born at Totteridge, Herts, and educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he became notable as an eloquent preacher, and as one of the ablest of the Tractarian party. ...