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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Literature; General literature

(1836-1906) Poet and novelist, born at Portsmouth, N.H., was for some time in a bank, and then engaged in journalism. His first book was The Bells, a Collection of Chimes (1855), and other poetical ...

Bernhard Berenson

Literature; General literature

(1865) Writer on art. Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (1894), Lorenzo Lotto, an Essay on Constructive Art Criticism (1895), Florentine Painters of the Renaissance (1896), Central Italian ...

Miss Jean Elliot

Literature; General literature

(1727-1805) Poetess, daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, has a small niche in literature as the authoress of the beautiful ballad, The Flowers of the Forest, beginning, "I've heard the lilting ...

John Owen

Literature; General literature

(1560-1622) Epigrammatist, born at Plas Dhu, Carnarvonshire, educated at Winchester and Oxford, and became head master of King Henry VIII. School at Warwick. His Latin epigrams, which have both sense ...

Hilaire Belloc

Literature; General literature

(1870) Miscellaneous writer. The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896), More Beasts for Worse Children (1897), The Moral Alphabet, Danton (1899), Lambkin's Remains (1900), Robespierre (1901), Caliban's ...

Henry Ward Beecher

Literature; General literature

(1813-1887) Orator and divine, son of Lyman Beecher and bro. of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one of the most popular of American preachers and platform orators, a prominent advocate of temperance and ...

William Wetmore Story

Literature; General literature

(1819-1895) Sculptor, poet, etc., born at Salem, Mass., was intended for the law, but became a sculptor and an eminent man of letters. His writings include Roba di Roma (1862), The Tragedy of Nero ...