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Joseph Kirkland

Literature; General literature

(1830-1894) Novelist, born in New York State, was a lawyer in Chicago, then served in the war. He is remembered as the author of two very vivid and life-like novels of pioneer life in the Far West, ...

Mrs. Hubert Bland (E. Nesbit)

Literature; General literature

(1858) Poet and novelist. Lays and Legends (1886), second series (1892), A Pomander of Verse (1895), In Homespun (1896), Secret of Kyriels (1898), Book of Dragons (1900), Five Children and It (1902), ...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. H.D. Ward)

Literature; General literature

(1844) American novelist. The Gates Ajar (1869), Hedged In (1870), Story of Avis (1877), An Old Maid's Paradise (1879), Beyond the Gates (1883), The Madonna of the Tubs (1887), The Gates Between ...

Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey)

Literature; General literature

(1856) Novelist. Vice-Versa (1882), The Giant's Robe (1883), The Black Poodle (1884), The Tinted Venus (1885), The Pariah (1889), Voces Populi, The Statement of Stella Maberley, Baboo Jabberjee, Love ...

George Henry Boker

Literature; General literature

(1823-90) Poet, was in the American Diplomatic Service. Among his dramas, generally tragedies, are Anne Boleyn, The Betrothed, and Francesca da Rimini, and among his books of poetry, Street Lyrics, ...

Sidney Lee

Literature; General literature

(1859) Ed. of The Dictionary of National Biography (with Sir L. Stephen), Stratford on Avon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare (1885), Life of Shakespeare (1898), A Life of Queen ...

Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Literature; General literature

(1860) Novelist and poet. The Stickit Minister (1893), The Raiders (1894), Lilac Sunbonnet (1894), Bog, Myrtle, and Peat (1895), Men of the Moss Hags (1895), Grey Man (1896), Standard Bearer (1898), ...