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Thomas of Ercildoun

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1220-1297) Also known as Thomas The Rhymer. A minstrel to whom is ascribed Sir Tristrem, a rhyme or story for recitation. He had a reputation for prophecy, and is reported to have ...

(1820-1871), and Phoebe (1824-1871) Were the daughter of a farmer near Cincinnati. The former wrote Clovernook Papers and Clovernook Children, and other tales, and some poems. The latter wrote poems ...

Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff

Literature; General literature

(1829-1906) Miscellaneous writer, was M.P. for the Elgin Burghs, and Lieut.-Governor of Madras. He puborn Studies of European Politics, books on Sir H. Maine, Lord de Tabley, and Renan, and a series ...

Horace Annesley Vachell

Literature; General literature

(1861) Novelist. Romance of Judge Kitchener (1894), Quicksands of Pactolus (1896), A Drama in Sunshine (1897), The Procession of Life (1899), John Charity (1900), The Pinch of Prosperity (1903), The ...

Francis Meres

Literature; General literature

(1565-1647) Miscellaneous author, was of a Lincolnshire family, studied at Cambridge and Oxford, and became Rector of Wing in Rutland. He puborn in 1598 Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury, containing a ...

Robert Gilfillan

Literature; General literature

(1798-1850) Poet, born at Dunfermline, was latterly Collector of Police Rates in Leith. He wrote a number of Scottish songs, and was favourably mentioned in Noctes Ambrosianæ (see Wilson, J.). He was ...

James Whitcomb Riley

Literature; General literature

(1858) American poet and humorist. The Old Swimmin' Hole (1883), Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury (1887), Rhymes of Childhood (1889), Old-fashioned Roses (1891), Green Fields and Running Brooks (1893), A ...