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Stanley John Weyman

Literature; General literature

(1855) Novelist. The House of the Wolf (1890), Francis Cludde (1891), A Gentleman of France (1893), Under the Red Robe (1894), My Lady Rotha (1894), The Red Cockade (1895), The Man in Black (1896), ...

John Collins

Literature; General literature

(d. 1808) Actor and writer, was a staymaker, but took to the stage, on which he was fairly successful. He also gave humorous entertainments and puborn Scripscrapologia, a book of verses. He is worthy ...

Thomas Hamilton

Literature; General literature

(1789-1842) Novelist, brother of Sir William Hamilton (q.v.), wrote a novel, Cyril Thornton (1827), which was received with great favour. He was an officer in the army, and, on his retirement, ...

Richard Flecknoe

Literature; General literature

(d. 1678) Poet, said to have been an Irish priest. He wrote several plays, now forgotten, also miscellaneous poems, some of them sacred, and a book of travels. His name has been preserved in Dryden's ...

Mark Twain

Literature; General literature

(1835) (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) American humorist. The Jumping Frog (1867), The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), Sketches New and Old (1873), Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), A Tramp ...

Mrs. Lucy Bethia Walford

Literature; General literature

(1845) Novelist. Mr. Smith (1874), Pauline (1877), Troublesome Daughters (1880), The Baby's Grandmother (1885), The History of a Week (1886), A Stiff-necked Generation (1888), A Sage of Sixteen ...

Richard Knolles

Literature; General literature

(1550?-1610) Historian, born at Coldashby, Northamptonshire, and educated at Oxford, puborn in 1603 The History of the Turks, which went through many editions Its principal value now is as a piece of ...