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Nathaniel Field

Literature; General literature

(1587-1633) Dramatist and actor, was one of "the children of the Queen's Revels," who performed in Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels in 1600. He wrote A Woman's a Weathercock (1612), Amends for Ladies ...

John Pendleton Kennedy

Literature; General literature

(1795-1870) Novelist, born in Baltimore, was distinguished as a lawyer and politician. He wrote three novels, Swallow Barn (1832), Horse Shoe Robinson (1835), and Rob of the Bowl (1838), which give a ...

John Mackinnon Robertson

Literature; General literature

(1856) Critic, etc. Buckle and his Critics, Montaigne and Shakespeare, The Dynamics of Religion, History of Free Thought, Christianity and Mythology, Introduction to English Politics, Short History ...

Allen Upward

Literature; General literature

(1863) Novelist, etc. Songs in Zïklag (1888), The Prince of Balkistan (1895), A Crown of Straw (1896), Secrets of the Courts of Europe (1897), A Day's Tragedy (1897), Treason (1903), Secret History ...

William Nugent Glascock

Literature; General literature

(1787-1847) Novelist. He saw a good deal of service in the navy with credit, and from this drew the inspiration of his vigorous and breezy sea-stories, which include Sailors and Saints (1829), Tales ...

Rev. Augustus Jessop

Literature; General literature

(1824) Historian. One Generation of a Norfolk House (1878), History of the Diocese of Norwich (1879), Arcady for Better or Worse (1881), The Coming of the Friars (1885), Random Roaming (1896), Before ...

Richard Henry Stoddard

Literature; General literature

(1825-1903) Poet, born at Hingham, Mass., worked in a foundry, and afterwards in New York Custom House, wrote a Life of Washington, but is chiefly known as a poet, his poetical works including Songs ...