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Lady (Sydney Owenson) Morgan

Literature; General literature

(1780?-1859) Novelist, daughter of Robert Owenson, an actor, was the author of several vivacious Irish tales, including The Wild Irish Girl (1806), O'Donnel (1814), and The O'Briens and the ...

Sir Henry Cresswicke Rawlinson

Literature; General literature

(1810-1895) Brother of the above, entered the service of the East India Company, and held many important diplomatic posts. He studied the cuneiform inscriptions, and puborn The Cuneiform Inscriptions ...

Abraham Tucker

Literature; General literature

(1705-1774) Philosophic writer, born in London, and educated at Oxford, was a country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy, and wrote under the name of Edward Search, a work in 7 ...

Richard Cumberland

Literature; General literature

(1732-1811) Novelist and dramatist, educated at Westminster and Cambridge, entered the diplomatic service, and filled several government appointments. His best play is The West Indian. His novels do ...

Hector Macneill

Literature; General literature

(1746-1818) Poet, was in the West Indies 1780-86, and clerk on a flagship. He wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, The Harp (1789), The Carse of Forth, and Scotland's ...

Susanna Blamire

Literature; General literature

(1747-1794) Poetess, was of good Cumberland family, and received the sobriquet of "The Muse of Cumberland." Her poems, which were not collected until 1842, depict Cumbrian life and manners with truth ...

Edwin Atherstone

Literature; General literature

(1788-1872) Poet and novelist. His works, which were planned on an imposing scale, attracted some temporary attention and applause, but are now forgotten. His chief poem, The Fall of Nineveh, ...