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Alice Werner

Literature; General literature

(1859) Miscellaneous writer. A Time and Times (poems) (1886), O'Driscoll's Weird (1892), The Humour of Italy (1892), The Humour of Holland (1893), The Captain of the Locusts (1899), Chapinga's While ...

William John Locke

Literature; General literature

(1863) Novelist. At the Gate of Samaria (1895). The Demagogue and Lady Phayre (1896), A Study in Shadows (1896), The White Dove (1900), The Usurper (1901), The Beloved Vagabond (1906), etc.; also ...

Henry VIII.

Literature; General literature

(1491-1547) Besides writing songs including The Kings Ballad, was a learned controversialist, and contended against Luther in Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (Defence of the Seven Sacraments), a ...

Clement King Shorter

Literature; General literature

(1858) Journalist and biographer. Charlotte Bronté and her Circle (1896), Sixty Years of Victorian Literature (1897), Charlotte Bronté and her Sisters (1905), The Brontés and their Correspondents ...

Robinson Ellis

Literature; General literature

(1834) Scholar. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus in the Metres of the Original (1871), A Commentary on Catullus (1876), The Ibis of Ovid, etc. (1881), The Fables of Avianus (1887), Noctes ...

Thomas Morton

Literature; General literature

(1764-1838) Dramatist, born in Durham, came to London to study law, which he discarded in favour of play-writing. He wrote about 25 plays, of which several had great popularity. In one of them, Speed ...

Thomas Gordon Hake

Literature; General literature

(1809-1895) Poet, born at Leeds, educated at Christ's Hospital, was a physician, and practised at various places. His books include Madeline (1871), Parables and Tales (1873), The Serpent Play ...