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John Millington Synge

Literature; General literature

(1871-1909) Miscellaneous writer, born near Dublin, educated privately and at Trinity College, Dublin. He wrote Riders to the Sea, In the Shadow of the Glen (1905), The Well of the Saints (1905), The ...

Mary (Balfour) Brunton

Literature; General literature

(1778-1818) Novelist, daughter of Col. Balfour of Elwick, and married to the Rev. Dr. Brunton, Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburgh, was the authoress of two novels, ...

William Kingsford

Literature; General literature

(1819-1898) Historian, born in London, served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work. He has a place in literature for his History of Canada in 10 volumes, a work of ...

Charles Eliot Norton

Literature; General literature

(1827-1909) American biographer and critic. Church Building in the Middle Ages (1876), translation of the New Life (1867), and The Divine Comedy of Dante (1891); has edited Correspondence of Carlyle ...

Nathaniel Gould

Literature; General literature

(1857) Sporting novelist. The Double Event (1891), Running it Off (1892), Thrown Away (1894), The Miner's Cup (1896), A Gentleman Rider (1898), A Stable Mystery (1900), The Rajah's Racer (1904), A ...

William Knox

Literature; General literature

(1789-1825) Poet, son of a farmer in Roxburghshire, wrote several books of poetry, The Lonely Hearth, Songs of Israel, Harp of Zion, etc., which gained him the friendship of Scott. He fell into ...

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Literature; General literature

(1855) Dramatist. The Magistrate, Sweet Lavender, The Profligate, The Weaker Sex, Lady Bountiful, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, The Benefit of the Doubt, The Princess and ...