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Richard Crashaw

Literature; General literature

(1613?-1649) Poet, son of William Crashaw, a Puritan divine, was born in London, and educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Peterhouse, from which, however, he was, in ...

Henry Harland

Literature; General literature

(1861-1905) Novelist, born of American parentage at St. Petersburg, and educated at Rome. Thereafter he went to Paris, and thence to America, where he graduated at Harvard, and settled in New York. ...

Aphra (Johnston) Behn

Literature; General literature

(1640-1689) Novelist and dramatist, daughter of a barber named Johnston, but went with a relative whom she called father to Surinam, of which he had been appointed Governor. He, however, died on the ...

Joseph Butler

Literature; General literature

(1692-1752) Theologian, born at Wantage, son of a Presbyterian linen-draper, was destined for the ministry of that Church, but in 1714 he decided to enter the Church of England, and went to Oxford. ...

William Law

Literature; General literature

(1686-1761) Divine, son of a grocer at Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, was educated at Cambridge, and in 1727 became tutor to the father of Edward Gibbon, the historian. About 1728 he puborn his best ...

Richard Porson

Literature; General literature

(1759-1808) Scholar, son of the parish clerk of E. Ruston, Norfolk, was distinguished from childhood by a marvellous tenacity of memory which attracted the attention of the curate of the parish, who ...

Mark Akenside

Literature; General literature

(1721-1770) Poet, son of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gave early indications of talent, and was sent to the University of Edinburgh with the view of becoming a dissenting minister. While there, ...