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ÆLfric

Literature; General literature

(955- circa 1022) Called Grammaticus (10th century), sometimes confounded with two other persons of the same name, Æ. of Canterbury and Æ. of York, was a monk at Winchester, and afterwards Abbot of ...

Ernest Charles Jones

Literature; General literature

(1819-1869) Poet, novelist, and Chartist, son of Major Jones, equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover, was born at Berlin. He adopted the views of the Chartists in an extreme ...

William Henry Ireland

Literature; General literature

(1777-1835) Forger of Shakespeare manuscripts, son of an antiquarian bookseller in London. He claimed to have discovered the MSS. in the house of a gentleman of fortune. The forgeries included ...

Sir John Robert Seeley

Literature; General literature

(1834-1895) Historian and essayist, son of a publisher in London, educated at City of London School and Cambridge. In 1863 he became Professor of Latin at University College, London, and was ...

Mrs. Susanna Centlivre

Literature; General literature

(1667-1723) Dramatist and actress, was the daughter of a gentleman of the name of either Rawkins or Freeman, who appears to have belonged either to Lincolnshire or Ireland, or was perhaps connected ...

George Farquhar

Literature; General literature

(1678-1707) Dramatist, born at Londonderry, son of a clergyman, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, on leaving which he took to the stage, but had no great success as an actor. This, together ...

Lady Charlotte (Bertie) Guest

Literature; General literature

(1812-1895) Daughter of the 9th Earl of Lindsey, married in 1833 Sir Josiah J. Guest, a wealthy ironmaster, after whose death in 1852 she managed the works. She was an enthusiastic student of Welsh ...