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Mrs. Anna Maria (Fielding) Hall

Literature; General literature

(1800-1881) Novelist, was born in Dublin, but left Ireland at the age of 15. Nevertheless, that country gave her the motive of several of her most successful books, such as Sketches of Irish ...

Dionysius Lardner

Literature; General literature

(1793-1859) Scientific writer, son of a solicitor in Dublin, and born there, was intended for the law, but having no taste for it, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and took orders, but devoted ...

(1839-1902) American humorist, born in Albany, N.Y., but when still a boy went to California. He had a somewhat varied career as a teacher, miner, and journalist, and it is as a realistic chronicler ...

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

Literature; General literature

(1822-1888) Jurist, educated at Christ's Hospital and at Cambridge, where he became Regius Professor of Civil Law 1847-54. Called to the Bar in 1850, he went in 1862 to India as legal member of the ...

Robert Michael Ballantyne

Literature; General literature

(1825-1894) Writer of tales for boys, born in Edinburgh, was a connection of the well-known printers. As a youth he spent some years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Co., and was then a member of ...

Alexander Smith

Literature; General literature

(1830-1867) Poet and essayist, son of a Paisley pattern-designer, at first followed the same occupation in Glasgow, but having become known as a poet of promise was, in 1854, appointed Secretary of ...

Thomas Love Peacock

Literature; General literature

(1785-1866) Novelist, born at Weymouth, the only child of a London merchant, was in boyhood at various schools, but from the age of 13 self-educated. Nevertheless, he became a really learned scholar. ...