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Catherine (Stevens) Crowe

Literature; General literature

(1800-1876) Wrote dramas, children's books, and one or two novels, including Susan Hopley (1841), and Lilly Dawson (1847), but is chiefly remembered for her Night-side of Nature (1848), a collection ...

Alfred Austin

Literature; General literature

(1835) Poet Laureate 1896. The Human Tragedy, Lyrical Poems, Narrative Poems, Fortunatus the Pessimist, Alfred the Great, Flodden Field: a Tragedy (1903), etc. Prose works include The Garden that I ...

Samuel Bishop

Literature; General literature

(1731-1795) Poet, born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylor's School and Oxford, took orders and became Headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School. His poems on miscellaneous subjects fill two ...

John Esten Cooke

Literature; General literature

(1830-1886) Novelist, born in Virginia, illustrated the life and history of his native state in the novels, The Virginia Comedians (1854), and The Wearing of the Gray, a tale of the Civil War, and ...

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (Mme. Duclaux)

Literature; General literature

(1857) Poetess. A Handful of Honeysuckles (1878), The Crowned Hippolytus (1881), Arden (novel) (1883), The New Arcadia (1884), Italian Garden (songs) (1886), A Mediæval Garland (1897), The Fields of ...

Thomas Nabbes

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1638) Dramatist, was at Oxford in 1621. He lived in London, and wrote comedies, satirising bourgeois society. He was most successful in writing masques, among which are Spring's Glory and ...

John Trumbull

Literature; General literature

(1750-1831) Poet, born at Waterbury, Conn., was a lawyer, and became a judge. He wrote much verse, his principal productions being The Progress of Dulness (1772) and McFingal (1782), written in ...