General literature

General literature

Industry: Literature

Add a new term

Contributors in General literature

Become a Contributors

General literature

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Literature; General literature

(1810-1889) Versifier, son of a surgeon, was born in London, educated at Charterhouse School and Oxford, and called to the Bar in 1835. He, however, believed that literature was his vocation, and ...

(1758-1826) Historian and Antiquary, born in Edinburgh, was apprenticed to a lawyer, but took to literature, and produced a number of works distinguished by painstaking research, but disfigured by a ...

Mrs. Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson

Literature; General literature

(1794-1860) Writer on art, daughter of Denis B. Murphy, a distinguished miniature painter, married Robert Jameson, a barrister (afterwards Attorney-General of Ontario). The union, however, did not ...

Charles Robert Maturin

Literature; General literature

(1782-1824) Novelist, born in Dublin of Huguenot ancestry, was educated at Trinity College there, and taking orders held various benefices. He was the author of a few dramas, one of which, Bertram, ...

Frederick William Robertson

Literature; General literature

(1816-1853) Divine, son of Captain Frederick Robertson, of the Royal Artillery, was born in London, and educated at Edinburgh and Oxford. fter holding various curacies he became in 1847 incumbent of ...

Henry Parry Liddon

Literature; General literature

(1829-1890) Divine, son of a captain in the navy, was born at North Stoneham, Hants, and educated at King's College School, London, and Oxford. e took orders 1853, was Vice-Principal of Cuddesdon ...

John Fisher

Literature; General literature

(circa 1469-1535) Controversialist and scholar, born at Beverley, and educated at Cambridge, entered the Church, and became in 1504 Bishop of Rochester. He wrote in Latin against the doctrines of the ...