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Julia Kavanagh

Literature; General literature

(1824-1877) Novelist, daughter of Morgan Kavanagh, poet, and philologist, wrote many novels, of which the scene is usually in France, among which are Madeleine (1848), Adèle, and Daisy Burns ; also ...

George Bernard Shaw

Literature; General literature

(1856) Novelist, critic, and dramatist. Novels, The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron's Profession, etc.; Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Three Plays for Puritans (1900), Man and Superman (1903), ...

Herbert Knowles

Literature; General literature

(1798-1817) Poet, author of the well-known Stanzas written in Richmond Churchyard, which gave promise of future excellence. But he died a few weeks after he had been enabled, through the help of ...

Edward Bradley

Literature; General literature

(1827-1889) Novelist, was a clergyman. He wrote under the name of "Cuthbert Bede" a few novels and tales, Fairy Fables (1858), Glencraggan (1861), Fotheringhay (1885), etc.; but his most popular book ...

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Literature; General literature

(1840) Poet, etc. Love Sonnets of Proteus (1880), Future of Islam (1882), The Wind and the Whirlwind (1883), Esther (1892), The Stealing of the Mare (1892), Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia (1903), ...

Mary Noailles Murfree

Literature; General literature

("Charles Egbert Craddock") American novelist. In the Tennessee Mountains (1884), Down the Ravine (1885), The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1886), Story of Keedar Bluffs (1887), His Vanished ...

Sir Thomas Hoby

Literature; General literature

(1530-1566) Translator, born at Leominster, and educated at Cambridge, translated Bucer's Gratulation to the Church of England, and The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio, the latter of which had ...