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John Morley, 1st Lord Morley of Blackburn

Literature; General literature

(1838) Biographer and essayist. Edmund Burke (1867), Critical Miscellanies (1871-77) (two series), Voltaire (1871), Rousseau (1873), On Compromise (1874), Diderot and the Encyclopædists (1878), ...

Edward Howard

Literature; General literature

(d. 1841) Novelist, a sea-comrade of Captain Marryat, and as sub editor assisted him in conducting the Metropolitan Magazine. He wrote several sea novels, of which Rattlin the Reefer, sometimes ...

Rycaut

Literature; General literature

(1628-1700) Also known as Sir Paul Ricaut. Historian, was at Cambridge, and held various diplomatic positions. He wrote Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1668), and a continuation of Knolles's ...

(1758-1816) Wrote The Cottagers of Glenburnie, a tale which had much popularity in its day, and perhaps had some effect in the improvement of certain aspects of humble domestic life in Scotland. She ...

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Literature; General literature

(1819-1881) Novelist and poet, born in Massachusetts, helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of ...

Walter Kennedy

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1500) Son of Lord Kennedy, was educated at Glasgow, and is perhaps best known as Dunbar's antagonist in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy. Other poems are Praise of Aige (Age), Ane Ballat ...

Alexander Campbell Fraser

Literature; General literature

(1819) Philosopher. Essays in Philosophy (1846-56), Collected Works of Bishop Berkeley, annotated (1871), Life and Letters of Berkeley (1871), Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding with ...