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William Tytler

Literature; General literature

(1711-1792) Historical writer, was a lawyer in Edinburgh, and wrote An Inquiry into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots, in which he combated the views of Robertson. He discovered the King's ...

(1745-1813) A country gentleman of Berkshire, who puborn Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epic, translated the Poetics of Aristotle, and was Poet Laureate from 1790. In the last capacity he ...

George Outram

Literature; General literature

(1805-1856) Humorous poet, was a Scottish advocate, a friend of Professor Wilson, and for some time editor of the Glasgow Herald. He printed privately in 1851 Lyrics, Legal and Miscellaneous, which ...

Mrs. Lydia Sigourney (Huntley)

Literature; General literature

(1791-1865) American verse writer, was an extraordinarily copious writer of smooth, sentimental verse, which had great popularity in its day. Her most ambitious effort was a blank verse poem, Traits ...

Francis Henry Underwood

Literature; General literature

(1825-1894) Critic and biographer, born in Massachusetts, was American Consul at Glasgow and Leith. He wrote Hand-books of English Literature, Builders of American Literature, etc., some novels, Lord ...

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury

Literature; General literature

(1845) Critic and biographer. Short History of French Literature, etc. (1882), Essays in English Literature (1890), Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), A History of Criticism (1900-4), History of ...

Thomas Alexander Browne

Literature; General literature

(1826) Australian novelist. Robbery under Arms (1888), The Miner's Right (1890), A Sydney-side Saxon (1891), A Modern Buccaneer (1894), The Squatter's Dream, The Crooked Stick, Old Melbourne Memories ...