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Thomas Dermody

Literature; General literature

(1775-1802) Poet, born at Ennis, showed great capacity for learning, but fell into idle and dissipated habits, and threw away his opportunities. He puborn two books of poems, which after his death ...

Lady John Scott

Literature; General literature

(1801-1900) (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) Married Lord John Scott. She was the writer of a number of Scottish songs characterised by true poetic feeling. Among them may be mentioned Annie Laurie, ...

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand

Literature; General literature

(1836) Humorist and dramatist, editor of Punch (1880-1906), to which he contributed Mokeanna, Strapmore, Happy Thoughts, etc. Has written over 120 plays, including Black-eyed Susan, The Colonel, ...

Barrett Wendell

Literature; General literature

(1855) American critic, etc. William Shakespeare (1894), A Literary History of America (1900), Raleigh in Guiana, etc. (1902), The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature (1904), The ...

Zachary Boyd

Literature; General literature

(1585-1653) Divine, belonged to the family of Boyd of Pinkhill, Ayrshire, was educated at Glasgow and at Saumur. He translated many parts of Scripture into uncouth verse. Among his works are The ...

Edmund Garratt Gardner

Literature; General literature

(1869) Miscellaneous writer. Dante's Ten Heavens (1898), Story of Florence (1900), Dukes and Ports in Ferrara (1904), The King of Court Poets (1906), Saint Catherine of Siena (1907), Lyrical Poetry ...

Clara Reeve

Literature; General literature

(1729-1807) Novelist, was the author of several novels, of which only one is remembered— The Old English Baron (1777), written in imitation of, or rivalry with, H. Walpole's Castle of Otranto, with ...