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Watts-Theodore Dunton

Literature; General literature

(1832) Poet, novelist, and critic. The Coming of Love, Rhona Boswell's Story (1897), Aylwin (1898), Christmas at the Mermaid, The Renascence of Wonder (1903), edited Borrow's Lavengro and Romany Rye ...

George Alfred Henty

Literature; General literature

(1832-1902) Boys' novelist, wrote over 80 books for boys, which had great popularity. Among them are By England's Aid, Dash for Khartoum, Facing Death, In Freedom's Cause, Out on the Pampas, etc., ...

George Louis Becke

Literature; General literature

(1848) Novelist. By Reef and Palm (1890), A First Fleet Family (1896), Pacific Tales (1897), Tom Wallis (1900), Yorke, the Adventurer (1901), Chinkie's Flat (1903), etc.; and with W. Jeffery, His ...

John B. Bury

Literature; General literature

(1861) Historian. History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (1889), History of Greece to Death of Alexander the Great (1900), Life of St. Patrick (1905); has edited Pindar's Nemean ...

Lindsay

Literature; General literature

(1500?-1565?) Or Robert Lindesay. Historian, Laird or tenant of Pitscottie, Fife, wrote a history entitled The Chronicles of Scotland, intended as a continuation of that of Boece. It deals with the ...

William Hale White

Literature; General literature

(circa 1830) Novelist, etc. The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1885), Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1885), The Revolution in Tanner's Lane (1887), Miriam's Schooling (1890), Catherine Furze ...

Charles Gildon

Literature; General literature

(1665-1724) Critic and dramatist, belonged to a Roman Catholic family, and was an unsuccessful playwright, a literary hack, and a critic of little acumen or discrimination. He attacked Pope as "Sawny ...