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Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Literature; General literature

(1815-1882) Miscellaneous writer, son of the above, educated at Harvard, but on his eyesight giving way shipped as a common sailor, and gave his experiences in Two Years before the Mast (1840). ...

(1802-1864) Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, who was in business as a solicitor, but not succeeding, started in 1831 the Sporting Magazine. Subsequently he took to writing sporting ...

Paul Leicester Ford

Literature; General literature

(1865-1902) Novelist and biographer, was born in Brooklyn. He wrote Lives of Washington, Franklin, and others, edited the works of Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels, which had considerable ...

Arthur Henry Bullen

Literature; General literature

(1857) Ed. of Old English writers. Ed. Works of John Day, dramatist (1881), Collection of Old English Plays (1882-84), Selections from Poems of Michael Drayton (1883), edited Works of Marlowe, ...

Miss E.M. Symonds

Literature; General literature

("George Paston") Novelist, etc. A Modern Amazon (1894), A Bread and Butter Miss (1894), The Career of Candida (1896), A Fair Deceiver (1897), Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (1901), Little ...

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Literature; General literature

(1813-1871) Essayist, etc., born in Boston, Mass. He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style. He lived much in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier ...

Thomas Sternhold

Literature; General literature

(1500-1549), Hopkins John (d. 1570) Were associated in making the metrical version of the Psalms, which was attached to the Prayer-book, and was for 200 years the chief hymn-book of the Church of ...