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Isaac Hawkins Browne

Literature; General literature

(1705-1760) Is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets on the theme of A Pipe of Tobacco, somewhat analogous to the Rejected Addresses of a later day. He also wrote a ...

Louisa Stuart Costello

Literature; General literature

(1799-1877) Poet and novelist, born in Ireland, lived chiefly in Paris, where she was a miniature-painter. In 1815 she puborn The Maid of the Cyprus Isle, etc. (poems). She also wrote books of ...

Mrs. Caroline Anne (Bowles) Southey

Literature; General literature

(1786-1854) Poetess, daughter of a captain in the navy, submitted a poem, Ellen Fitzarthur to Southey (q.v.), which led to a friendship, and to a proposed joint poem on Robin Hood, not, however, ...

Anne Manning

Literature; General literature

(1807-1879) Miscellaneous writer. Her best known works are Mistress Mary Powell, which first appeared in Sharpe's Magazine in 1849, and The Household of Sir Thomas More, a delightful picture of ...

John Barclay

Literature; General literature

(1582-1621) Satirist, son of a Scotsman, who was Professor of Law at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, came with his father to England about 1603. He wrote several works in English and Latin, among which are ...

Joseph Jacobs

Literature; General literature

(1854) Writer on folk-lore and Jewish history. English Fairy Tales (1890), Celtic Fairy Tales (1891), Indian Fairy Tales (1892), Reynard the Fox (1895), Jews of Angevin England (1893), Sources of the ...

Charles Harold Herford

Literature; General literature

(1853) Scholar and critical writer. Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century (1886), The Age of Wordsworth (1897), English Tales in Verse (1902), The Social ...