CHARNWOOD AUTOGRAPHS. Vol. II. English literary autographs; circa 16th-20th cent. Included are Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, John Evelyn, John Locke, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, William Congreve, Sir Richard Steele, ..., approximately 16th century-20th century - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Epithet: Secretary to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x00025b Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000220 The author was the son of the playwright Richard Cumberland (1732-1811), who was a friend of Garrick, Goldsmith, Reynolds and others of Johnson's ci...

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Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882

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William Harrison Ainsworth was an English novelist. From the description of William Harrison Ainsworth collection of papers, [1836]-1889. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652063 From the guide to the William Harrison Ainsworth collection of papers, 1823]-1889, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Per...

Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, KCVO

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Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Haggard, Henry Rider, Sir, KBE, novelist

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Ward, Josephine M.

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Noyes, Alfred, poet

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Oliphant, Margaret O.

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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

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The attribution of this otherwise unknown poem to 'D. Swift' may indicate D[ean Jonathan] Swift, the poet and satirist. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography. From the guide to the A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift, ca. 1710-1720, (Leeds University Library) Epithet: Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000...

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754

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Fielding was an English author. From the description of Of outlawry in criminal causes, 1737-1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84429621 From the guide to the Henry Fielding papers for, Of outlawry in criminal causes, 1737-1929., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000239 English pla...

Maxwell, William Babington

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Crabbe, George

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George Crabbe (1754-1832), poet, was born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on 24 December 1754, and was mostly self-taught. He was employed in a warehouse on the quay at Slaughden until 1768, before working as a servant for country doctors, 1768-1775. He published verses between 1772 and 1775, and studied botany and surgery, practising the latter at Aldeburgh. He was ordained deacon in 1781, and became Curate of Aldeburgh in that year. He was Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir, 1782-1785, and was ...

Barrie, J.M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937

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Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870

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English author; editor of Punch. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 198 Strand [London], to Ben Webster, 1856 July 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270595433 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Punch office, to Joseph Brougham, 1859 Mar. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270597175 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5, 3 with initials) : London, to John Forster, 1858 various dates in May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2...

Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855

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Allen, Grant

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Birrell, Augustine, MP; of Add MS 41077

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Hodgson, Ralph, of Add MS 32869

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Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924

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Reverend Baring-Gould was an English hymn writer, popular novelist, and author on folk-lore. From the guide to the Sabine Baring-Gould Manuscript, Undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) English author of theological works and novels. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. Oscar Beringer, 1892 May 19. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936526 English divine and author. From the descript...

Smith, Adam

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Epithet: of Add MS 34416 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x000121 Epithet: economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001fa Epithet: LL.D British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0001e1 Epithet: Commissioner of Customs for Sco...

Day, Thomas

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 2651 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0003bc Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x0000fa Epithet: of Bombay British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0003bb ...

Maxse, Leopold J.

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Epithet: Editor 'National Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x00039c Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F108 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0001da ...

Martineau, Harriet

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Epithet: of Add MS 39948 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x000295 Epithet: of Add MS 44439 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x000297 Epithet: writer and reformer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000116 Epithet: of Add MS ...

Payn, James, novelist

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00003d ...

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894

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English-Italian poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hastings, to Miss Howitt, [1864 Dec. 26?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657751 Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English poet. From the description of Sirs, ye are brethren, 1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 365128412 Christina Georgina Rossetti, English poet. From the description of [Letter and poem] / Christian G. Rossetti. [1876] (Smith College). W...

Cowper, William

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Title: 1st Earl Cowper British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0003cf Epithet: FRS, Surgeon and Anatomist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x0001d2 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0001f3 Epithet: M D of Chester ...

Cross Mary Ann 1819-1880

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Epithet: novelist, pseudonym George Eliot British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00037e ...

Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x0001ec ...

Housman, A.E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936

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A.E. Housman was a classical scholar, professor of Latin at Cambridge University, and poet. From the description of Letter to "Dear Sirs," 1922. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122288834 English poet and classical scholar. At Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911-1936. From the description of [Letter] 1931 Apr. 15, Trinity College, Cambridge, England [to Helen] Peck / A. E. Housman. (Smith College). WorldCat record id...

Sterne, Laurence

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add Ch 16158 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x0001b2 Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x0001b0 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001b9 Epithet: Reverend; of ...

Linton, Eliza Lynn, née Lynn novelist

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Epithet: née Lynn novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000358 ...

Lear, Edward, 1812-1888

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English painter and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 61 Promenade des Anglais [Nice], to Lady Duncan, 1865 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129778 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Cairo, Cannes, Paris, San Remo, and Botzen, to Mrs. (later Lady) Digby Wyatt, 1866 Dec. 30-1871 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598498 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Villa Tennyson, San Remo, to Wilkie [Col...

Reade, Charles, author, d1884

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Epithet: novelist and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x000281 Epithet: author, d1884 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x0002a0 ...

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Carlyle, Thomas

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F127 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000388 Epithet: historian, d1881 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000205 ...

Anson, William Reynell

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Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x00037c ...

Richard H. Barham.

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Cholmondeley, Mary, novelist

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x00025d ...

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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Edmund Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography, Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942. From the description of Letters : to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577035 English poet and man of...

Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938

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Lascelles Abercrombie M.A. was born in 1881, and was the sixth son of William Abercrombie of Cheshire. He was educated at Malvern College, and at the Victoria University, Manchester; his education was chiefly scientific. He soon became well-known as a poet and a man of letters; from 1919-22 he was Lecturer in Poetry at the University of Liverpool, leaving there to become the Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, where he stayed until 1929 when he left to take up a Professor...

Deutsch, Emanuel O.

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Epithet: Semitic scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x000093 ...

Howitt, William, author

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Norris, William Edward

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002c4 ...

De Morgan, William Frend, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002df ...

Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0001d3 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F197 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000088 ...

Thomson, James, engraver

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Epithet: Writer in Kirkcaldy, and prisoner in the Tolbooth there British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0001b4 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000013 Epithet: engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00023e ...

Yonge, Charlotte Mary, novelist

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0000e0 ...

Taylor, Henry, M.D.

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Epithet: of the Athenaeum Club British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000252 Epithet: of Add MS 33057 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0002bc Epithet: Recorder of Pontefract British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000209 Epithet: V...

Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

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Novelist. From the description of Letters, 1900-1932. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580518 From the description of Papers, 1925-1933. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580524 John Galsworthy was an English dramatist and novelist. Educated as a barrister at Harrow and New College, Oxford, he instead decided to travel, attending to his family's shipping business abroad, and then began writing. His first book, From the Four Winds, was a collec...

Hewlett, Maurice Henry, author

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Phillips, Stephen, poet and dramatist

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Epithet: poet and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000142 ...

Gibbon, Edward, historian

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Epithet: grandfather of E Gibbon historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x00025f Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000114 ...

Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945

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English scholar, critic, and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cotswold House, Campden, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1940 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606120 Epithet: President British Academy British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0001fa ...

Munro, Hugh Hector, alias `Saki'

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Epithet: alias `Saki' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000183 ...

Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford alias Horatio

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Title: 4th Earl of Orford alias Horatio British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x0002b7 ...

Gay, John, 1685-1732

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Epithet: poet, playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002c5 ...

Brooke, Stopford Augustus, Reverend author

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Epithet: Reverend author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000348 ...

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, Subject of Mss Eur F234

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0001f7 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0000cf ...

Lloyd, Charles, sec to George Grenville

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Epithet: sec to George Grenville British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x00033d Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0000fb ...

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...

Anstey, F., 1856-1934

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Guthrie was an English humorous writer. Turner was an English writer. From the description of Letters to Martin John Turner, 1921-1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78933036 From the guide to the Letters to Martin John Turner, 1921-1933., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Epithet: writer; alias 'F Anstey' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00...

Pattison, Mark, MRCVS

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Epithet: rector of Lincoln College Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00030a ...

Hunt, Marianne, née Kent wife of J H Leigh Hunt

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Epithet: née Kent wife of J H Leigh Hunt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000339 ...

Barbauld, Anna Letitia, Mrs author

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Epithet: Mrs author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x0003a1 ...

Freeman, Edward W.

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000276 Sanitary contractor who used a horse drawn cart. From the description of Edward H. Freeman ledgers, 1908-1920. 1908-1920. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 748243633 ...

James, Henry

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00012f Epithet: Baron James of Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000331 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000361 Epithet: Capta...

Burney, Charles Parr, Archdeacon of St Albans

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Epithet: Archdeacon of St Albans British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0000f2 ...

Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x0001a3 ...

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882

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English painter and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mrs. Gilchrist, [ca. 1863 Mar. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 713659894 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to William Allingham, [1859 Dec.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 708246618 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Alexander Gilchrist, [1861 Sept. 14]. (Unknown). WorldCat ...

Campbell, Thomas, Sculptor

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x00015c Epithet: Sculptor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000843.0x000071 ...

Richard Holt? Hutton

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Epithet: Editor 'The Spectator' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x0001f1 ...

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

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English poet, literary scholar, historian and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified man, 1836 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 603582965 English poet and man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to Moxon, 1837 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662734 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 Mar. 2....

Hallam, Henry, historian

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002cb ...

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

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Jane Austen (b. December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England–d. July 18, 1817, Winchester, England) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars. With the publications of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814)...

Kingsley, Charles, Reverend author

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Epithet: Creator of Mss Eur F562 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0000dc Epithet: Reverend author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00022f ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0002ea ...

Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes, social reformer

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Epithet: social reformer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x0000f0 ...

Benson, Edward Frederic, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000332 ...

Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927

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Epithet: art critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x00029d English literary and art critic; keeper, Dept. of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum; friend and editor of Robert Louis Stevenson. From the description of Letters to Elizabeth N. Fairchild [manuscript], 1896-1897. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647996389 Sir Sidney Colvin was an art professor, critic, ...

Brooke, Rupert, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000317 ...

Cobbett, William, MP

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Epithet: essayist and politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000209.0x000371 Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x00012b Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x00014...

Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947

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English author. From the description of Typed letter signed : London, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868154 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00019a ...

Toynbee, Paget, Dante scholar

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Epithet: Dante scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0002e3 ...

Smollett, Tobias, novelist

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024f ...

O'Shaughnessy Arthur William Edgar

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Epithet: poet and herpetologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000181 ...

Reynolds, John Hamilton, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00013e ...

Symonds, John Addington, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0001d2 ...

More, Hannah, author

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Epithet: of Add MS 32491 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000032 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x0003ac ...

Mitford, Mary Russell, novelist and dramatist

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Epithet: novelist and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00005c ...

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells (b. September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England-d. August 13, 1946, London, England), best remembered for imaginative novels such as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, prototypes for modern science fiction, was a prolific writer and one of the most versatile in the history of English letters. He produced an average of nearly three books a year for more than fifty years, in addition to hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His works ranged from f...

Marvell, Andrew

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Epithet: of Add MS 38728 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x00002b Epithet: of Sloane MS 3087 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x00002c Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0001ef ...

Shorter, Clement K.

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Epithet: journalist and author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000254 ...

Howitt, Mary, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002ed ...

Marryat, Frederick, Captain RN, novelist

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Epithet: Captain RN, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000280 ...

Hargreaves, Alice, wife of W Hargreaves

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Epithet: wife of W Hargreaves British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0002b2 ...

Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929

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Henry Arthur Jones was the son of a tenant farmer, and worked in the drapery business for some twenty years after leaving school. He developed a passion for drama, and found success with The Silver King, a play he co-authored with Henry Herman, which gave him the financial security to become a full-time writer. A prolific author, he wrote many plays, chiefly melodramas, and had great success in England and America. His themes and influences were chiefly British, and he is considered a pioneer of...

Johnson, Samuel Y.

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Epithet: LLD, lexicographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000069 Epithet: Reverend; DD, of Stratford, in Connecticut; afterwards President of King's College, New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000356.0x000250 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur D546 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pers...

Hook, Walter Farquhar, Dean of Chichester

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Epithet: Dean of Chichester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000105 ...

Lang, Andrew, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0002f4 ...

Seward, Anna, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001b7 ...

Locke, William John

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000199 ...

Monkhouse, Cosmo, poet and critic

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Epithet: poet and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0003cc ...

Bailey, Philip James, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002a2 ...

MacDonald, George

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000212 Epithet: of Hastings British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x0002f1 ...

Craigie, Pearl, 1867-1906, novelist

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1891-1906 published short stories, plays and novels under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes; 1895-1896 president of the Society of Women Journalists; 1899 founded Anglo-Saxon Review with Jennie Churchill; early 1900s lectured in England and Scotland; 1903-1904 president of the Ruskin Society; 1905-1906 lecture tour of the United States. Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0...

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000080 Aldous Huxley was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary and social critic, and poet. From the description of Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 1915-1973 bulk (1915-1963). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517267 From the guide to the Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 19...

Parker, Louis Napoleon, author and composer

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Epithet: author and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0002fb ...

Bloomfield, Robert, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000272 ...

Evelyn, John, of Add MS 34702

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Epithet: of West Dean, county Wiltshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0000b2 Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x000250 Epithet: of Add MS 12101 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000...

Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

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Professor of Greek. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1884 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1878 Oct. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864411 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864440 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], t...

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

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British poet. From the description of Letters, 1827 Jan. 12-1836 Feb. 20. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953362 Wordsworth, English poet. From the description of [Letters, 1826-1848] / Wm. Wordsworth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844796 Wordsworth was an English poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1853. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122372656 From the guide to the William Wordsw...

Richardson, Samuel

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x00032d Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00023c Epithet: of Wellingborough British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x00032f...

Smith, Horace, poet and author alias Horatio

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Epithet: poet and author alias Horatio British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x00016d ...

Locke, John, philosopher

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Epithet: philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x00004d ...

Hutchinson, Arthur Stuart Menteth

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x00006d ...

Keble, John, divine and poet

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Epithet: divine and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x0003d1 ...

Milnes, Richard Monckton, 1st Baron Houghton

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Title: 1st Baron Houghton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000033 ...

Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000151 ...

Hume, David, philosopher

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Epithet: philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024b ...

Tupper, Martin Farquhar

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x00001b ...

Newman, Francis William, author

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Epithet: brother of John Henry Newman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x0001c0 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0002a6 ...

Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

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Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. Moore was a friend and acquaintance of many of the English Romantics, including Lord Byron. He met Mary Shelley in the late 1820s, while researching his biography of Byron. From the description of Thomas Moore manuscript material : 220 items, 1811-1846 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76835859 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. From the guide to the Thomas Moore manuscript material : 254 items, 1811-1846, (...

Fitzgerald, Edward

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Epithet: Major Baron British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x0002ec Epithet: of Add MS 37538 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x0002ef Epithet: Captain; of Stowe MS 202 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x0002eb Epithet: translato...

Dryden, John, 1631-1700

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John Dryden, 1631-1700, was an influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England. From the description of John Dryden Letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1698-1699. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 147971227 From the guide to the John Dryden Letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1698-1699, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) Epithet: poet and dramatist...

Ewing, Juliana Horatia, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002f0 ...

Haweis, Hugh Reginald

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Epithet: author and preacher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x00008f ...

Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate

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Epithet: Poet Laureate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0000b3 ...

Gilbert, Ann, née Taylor writer of children's poetry

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Epithet: née Taylor writer of children's poetry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000074 Epithet: Mrs; authoress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000625.0x000011 ...

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930

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Bridges was an English poet. From the description of Robert Bridges letter : to E.B.H., 1905 June 3. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936785 Robert Seymour Bridges, English poet. He held the title of Poet Laureate from 1913, upon the refusal of Rudyard Kipling. From the description of Robert Seymour Bridges manuscript material : 2 items, 1897 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76944649 From the guide to the Robert Seymour B...

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000173 ...

White, Henry Kirke, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00026f ...

Congreve, William, Sir, 2nd Baronet, MP

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Epithet: of Add MS 28275 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x0002aa Epithet: MP Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x0000f1 Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

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Charlotte Brontë (b. April 21, 1816, Thornton, Yorkshire, England–d. March 31, 1855, Haworth, Yorkshire, England), English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell....

Robson, James, 1733-1806

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Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00023f ...

Alington, Cyril Argentine, Dean of Durham

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Epithet: Dean of Durham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0000bf ...

Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957

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English classical scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 131 Banbury Road, Oxford, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1907 Oct. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612718 Epithet: of Stowe MS 208 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x00020a Epithet: OM, classical scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Smith, Goldwin

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000148 Epithet: Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000299.0x0000f3 ...

Boswell, James, the younger, lawyer

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Epithet: the younger, lawyer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024c Epithet: the elder, biographer of Johnson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024d ...

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Pater, Walter Horatio, author and critic

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x00015a Epithet: author and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000279 ...

Kinglake, Alexander William, historian

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0000db Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x000273 ...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Besant, Walter

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000697.0x000115 ...

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...

Parker, Gilbert, Sir, Baronet, MP

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Epithet: Baronet , MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000056 ...

Martin, Theodore

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Epithet: KCB Parliamentary agent and translator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000339 ...

Trench, Richard Chenevix

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Epithet: Archbishop of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x00027a ...

Bradley, Andrew Cecil, LittD

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Epithet: LittD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000309 ...

Froude, James Anthony, historian, d1894

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x00039f Epithet: historian, d1894 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0000e7 ...

Vertue, George, of Add MS 38091

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Epithet: of Add MS 38091 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000628.0x000153 Epithet: engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000189 ...

Bambridge, Elsie, Mrs

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Epithet: Mrs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x00039f ...

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811

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Thomas Percy was the editor of the Reliques of ancient English poetry and of The Regulations and establishment of the household of Henry Algernon Percy (London, 1770). From the description of Thomas Percy letter, Northumberland House [London], to Dear Sir, [1767] Saturday, May 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38929735 Epithet: Bishop of Norwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/...

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

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W.B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865-1939), poet and dramatist, born in County Sligo, Ireland. From the description of W.B. Yeats collection, 1875-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863171 British poet. From the description of Letter : to William Weber, Brooklyn, New York : holograph, 12 May [no year]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18786005 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. From t...

Ingelow, Jean, poet and novelist

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Epithet: poet and novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000133 ...

Berry, Mary, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000299 ...

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0003be ...

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

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British poet. From the description of The descent into hell [manuscript poem], 1873 Jan. 9. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416044 From the description of Autograph quotation, [ca. 1890?]. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315968127 Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English lyric poet, dramatist, and critic of the Victorian era. He was famous for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Victorian morality. ...

Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hallington Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1934 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573149 Epithet: OM, historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000331 George Trevelyan was an English historian and educator. From the description of Letters, 1929-1935. (College of Charleston). W...

Reade, John Edmund, poet and novelist

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Epithet: poet and novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00029b ...

Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921

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Dobson became known as a poet for his works "Proverbs in Porcelain" (1877) and "Collected Poems" (1897), in which he used the French forms, and as a biographer, for "Fanny Burney" and "Horace Walpole." From the description of Correspondence, 1902-1908. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122445124 Henry Austin Dobson, civil servant and poet, was born on 18 January 1840. After leaving school at the age of 16, he joined the Board of Trade where he remained until...

Gilfillan, George

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002a1 ...

Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945

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Arthur Symons was an English critic and poet. From the description of Arthur Symons collection. [1906-1929]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676800282 Epithet: poet and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x0001cd Arthurs Symons was an accomplished poet, critic, short story writer, travel writer, playwright, and editor. An important figure in the developmen...

Bennett, Enoch Arnold, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00029e ...

Max Müller, Friedrich, PC, philologist

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Epithet: PC, philologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000307 ...

Pye, Henry James, poetaster

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Epithet: poetaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00006b ...

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0002d6 De Quincey was an English essayist and critic. From the description of Compositions, 1818-185-. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80714484 From the guide to the Compositions, 1818-185-?., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) English Romantic author Thomas De Quincey was a brilliant cl...

Mundella, Anthony John, PC, MP

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Epithet: PC, MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000023 ...

Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984

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J. B. Priestley, playwright. From the description of An inspector calls: typescript, 1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608422 J.B. Priestley, playwright; David Mamet, adapter, not credited here. From the description of Dangerous corner : typescript, 1996, January 4. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626156 English author J.B. Priestley had a long and prolific career writing in numerous genres, and achieved critical a...

Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame, Unspecified, author

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x0001b0 Epithet: of Add MS 38653 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x000273 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000300 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graha...

Frazer, James George, Sir, OM, anthropologist

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Epithet: OM, anthropologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x0003c6 ...

Landor, Walter Savage, d1864, author

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Epithet: of Add MS 35070 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x00028f Epithet: d1864, author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x000264 ...

Kegan Paul, Charles, publisher

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Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00019a ...

Trelawny, Edward John

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Epithet: of Add MS 37538 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0000b0 Epithet: author and adventurer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x000211 Epithet: of Add MS 38523 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0000b1 ...

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Epithet: of Add MS 12099 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002fc Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000300 Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), dramatist and politician, was born in Dublin on 30 October 1751, and educated at Harrow, 1762-1768. A production of his comedy The rivals was a...

Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877

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British author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, [between 1842 and 1846]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610489 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610487 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mrs. Fonblanque, Thursday [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610490 From ...

Benson, Godfrey Rathbone, 1st Baron Charnwood

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Title: 1st Baron Charnwood British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000178 ...

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

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Epithet: Baron Macaulay British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x0000cb ...

Burns, Robert P., 1947-

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x00015b Epithet: of Add MS 39791 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001f4 ...

Burnett, Frances H.

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Epithet: novelist and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000697.0x000121 ...

Waller Edmund 1606-1687

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to William Cavendish, third Earl of Devonshire, [1657?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270586444 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000246 Edmund Waller (1606-1687), the poet. For a fuller account of his life and writings see the Dictionary of National Biography. From the guide to the Te...

Black, William

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0003cd Epithet: Town Clerk of Stranraer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x000002 Epithet: RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x000001 William Black was a Regent (Profess...

Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, KBE

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Epithet: KBE British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x000316 ...

Addison, Joseph, of Add MS 39577

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Epithet: of Add MS 36540 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000741.0x00028f Epithet: of Add MS 39577 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000741.0x000291 Epithet: dramatist and essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000000...

Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary

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Archer, William H.

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Epithet: Deputy Register of the Vice-Admiralty Court, Barbados British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x0000f9 Epithet: of Kelmscott Press British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00031a Epithet: of Add MS 20723 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Des...

Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John, novelist

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000074 ...

Hughes, Thomas

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Epithet: DD, Vicar of Uffington, county Berkshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x00003c Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x00003d Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x0002ce ...

Lamb, Charles

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Epithet: Sheriff's messenger British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x00024a Epithet: essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000363 Epithet: of Add MS 39672 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000249 ...

Paul, Herbert Woodfield, MP

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000129 ...

Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920

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Mary Augusta Ward was an English writer, and wife of critic Humphry Ward. She began writing literary criticism, and soon progressed to writing novels. Although not stylistically distinguished, her novels were popular because they explored interesting questions of the day. Her earnest approach was admired, and her literary attempts to bring human drama to political, sociological, or religious issues continue to provide an interesting perspective on Victorian society. From the descript...

Burney, Charles

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Epithet: MusD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0000b6 Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000321 Epithet: Dr; of Add MS 16947 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001be ...

Barton, Bernard, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000126 ...

Hone, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 37949 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00039a Epithet: bookseller; d British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000397 Epithet: the younger, writer and bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vd...

Falkner, John Meade, author and antiquary

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Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

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Matthew Arnold's reflective, urbane poetry and novels thoughtfully express the social issues and religious confusion of Victorian England. He worked as a school inspector, and his belief in liberal education is a theme in his poetry and essays. From the description of Matthew Arnold letters, 1875-1886. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50209290 British poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Williams [manuscript], n.y. March 21. (...

Molesworth, Mary Louisa, Mrs writer for children

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Epithet: Mrs writer for children British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000061 ...

Jerdan, William, 1782-1869

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Epithet: journalist, of the 'Literary Gazette' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000297 Journalist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : various places, to Mrs. Darby, 1853 Jan. 12, 1858 Dec. 5, and [no year] Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871150 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to R. Ackermann, "Monday" [no year]. (...

Swanwick, Anna, author

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Boswell, James, the younger, lawyer

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Epithet: the younger, lawyer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024c Epithet: the elder, biographer of Johnson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024d ...

D'Arblay, Frances, née Burney author

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Epithet: née Burney; novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x00005d Epithet: née Burney author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000374 ...

Ricardo, David, economist

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Epithet: economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x0002b7 ...

Oliver, Frederick S.

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Epithet: of Messrs Debenham and Freebody, barrister and author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00036f ...

Collins, William Wilkie, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x0001c9 ...

Bayly, Thomas Haynes, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002a0 ...

Shorthouse, Joseph H.

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Epithet: novelist, d1903 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000209.0x000355 ...

Meredith, George, 1828-1909

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George Meredith (1828-1909), the novelist and poet. For a full account and assessment of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography From the guide to the Miscellaneous letters, manuscripts, and press-cuttings relating to George Meredith, ca.1890-1914, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00013f George Meredith w...

Broughton, Rhoda, novelist

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F143 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0002a5 Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00012b ...

Lockhart, John Gibson, biographer of Sir Walter Scott

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Epithet: of Add MS 39179 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x0001b3 Epithet: Editor of the 'Quarterly Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x0001ae Epithet: biographer of Sir Walter Scott British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description ...

Hood, Thomas

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000346 Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000280 Epithet: the younger British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000294 Epithet: mathematician Bri...

Williamson, George Charles

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Epithet: LittD, art historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x0003b7 ...

Dickson, Robert Bruce, Vicar of Speen

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Epithet: Vicar of Speen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00021b ...

Newton, John

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Epithet: Abbot of Battle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x0002eb Epithet: divine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000047 Epithet: of East Harptree British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x00033c Epithet: Canon of Hereford ...

Hallam, Arthur Henry

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Epithet: poet, d1833 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x00026f ...

Edgeworth, Maria, novelist

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000303 ...

Pain, Barry, author

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904

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English critic and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (24) : London, etc., to W.E. Henley, 1876-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580328 From the description of English thought in the eighteenth century : autograph manuscript, [187-]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580765 Stephen was a British critic, man of letters and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From the description of Photograph album of Le...

Aytoun, William Edmonstoune

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000306 ...

Hogg, James, 1770-1835

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James Hogg was born in Ettrick, Selkshire, Scotland in November 1770. Having received little formal education, Hogg taught himself to read and write in his late teens. He continued to work as a labourer and shepherd for twenty five years. Between 1794-1810 Hogg wrote songs which appeared in magazines and in two small collections. Determined to make a career as a professional writer, Hogg, aged 40, moved to Edinburgh in 1810. In Edinburgh, Hogg established a weekly paper entitled, The Spy but onl...

Pinero, Arthur Wing

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Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00025d ...

Borrow, George, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x0002e8 ...

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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Wife of Ruskin's physician, Dr. John Simon. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. John Simon, [18--] (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 31272017 British writer, artist, and critic. From the description of John Ruskin papers, ca. 1837-1904. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80934993 John Ruskin was born on 8 February 1819 in London. Ruskin was educated by his mother and by various tutors before attending Oxford University. H...

Cunningham, Allan

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00010a ...

Duncan, Sara Jeannette, 1861-1922

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1884-1888 journalist in Canada; 1895-? 1915 journalist in India. Epithet: novelist and journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x00018b ...

Delane, John Thadeus, Editor of 'The Times'

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Epithet: Editor of 'The Times' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000299.0x000005 ...

Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, of Add MS 38728

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Epithet: artist; of Add MS 4277 Title: Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x0003c8 Epithet: of Add MS 38728 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x0003c6 Epithet: of Add MS 45730 Title: Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the most popular and prolific British writers of the late 19th century, the author of verse, novels, travel books, short stories, plays, and essays, including such titles as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island . There is considerable secondary literature on Stevenson, including book-length biographical studies, chronologies, and bibliographies. Summary information is available in the standard print and online biographical resources. ...

Shenstone, William, poet

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Epithet: of Add MS 21508 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000206 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0002c0 ...

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Abbotsford, Melrose, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1818] Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 747107129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified to Charles [Sharpe], [1817 or later?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 745119219 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [William Slade], 1803 June [3]. (Unknown). W...

Watson, John William, Subject of Mss Eur F244

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F244 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000062 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x000337 ...

Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925

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Benson was born Apr. 24, 1862; his father was Edward White Benson, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury; entered Eton as King's scholar, 1874; went to King's College, Cambridge, 1881; returned to work at Eton, 1885-1903; published first volume of essays, 1896; produced various works, including a biography of his father, Edward White Benson (1899), The schoolmaster (1902), Land of hope and glory, and Peace and other poems (1905); in all, published more than seventy books, including poetry, s...

Jerome, Jerome Klapka, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x000187 ...

Hood, Thomas

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000346 Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000280 Epithet: the younger British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000294 Epithet: mathematician Bri...

Palgrave, Francis, Sir, 1788-1861

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Deputy Keeper of the H.M. Record Office and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], Agnes Strickland, 1858 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864957 Epithet: archivist and historian Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0000d8 ...

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906

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Epithet: LLD, Keeper of Printed Books British Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00015c English librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : British Museum, to F.J. Dreer, 1892 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269566963 Librarian of the British Museum. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, 1889 Oct. 11. (Unk...

Butler, Samuel

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Epithet: Author of 'Hudibras.' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x000154 Epithet: satirist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x00015d Epithet: author of 'Erewhon' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0002a4 ...

Hazlitt, William, essayist

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Epithet: of Mauritius British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x00024d Epithet: essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0002f7 ...

Strickland, Agnes, historian

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x000093 ...

Robertson, William, Deputy Lord Clerk Register of Scotland

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Epithet: Deputy Lord Clerk Register of Scotland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x0000bc Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x00024e ...

Steele, Richard E., 1952-

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Epithet: of Add MS 36595 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000245.0x0003d9 ...

Hichens, Robert Smythe, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000363 ...

Sayce, Archibald Henry, Reverend orientalist

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Epithet: Reverend orientalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000150 ...

Trollope, Anthony

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0000ad Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000348 ...

Opie, Amelia, Mrs novelist and poet

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Epithet: Mrs novelist and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x0002e0 ...

Edgeworth, Richard L.

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000305 ...

Gray, Thomas

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Thomas Gray (1716-1771), poet, was born in Cornwall on 26 December 1716. He attended Eton, before entering Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1734. He left the university without a degree in 1738, but after a tour on the continent, he returned to Peterhouse in 1742, and proceeded LL.B. in 1743. Gray remained in Cambridge for the rest of his life. In 1768 he became professor of history and modern languages at the university. He died on 30 July 1771. From the guide to the Thomas Gray: Catalogue...

Turner, Charles Tennyson, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000103 Epithet: elder brother of Alfred Tennyson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000291 ...

Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897

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Epithet: poet and anthologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0001d4 Francis Turner Palgrave was raised in London and educated at Oxford; he worked for the Privy Council's Education Office from 1849-1884. In his day, he was known as a poet, critic, and editor, publishing several books of verse and numerous critical essays on art and literature. He is probably best known for the well-considered antholog...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Barnes, William

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Epithet: of Monmouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x00014d Epithet: Reverend; Dorset poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x000150 Epithet: JP for Devon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000091 Epithet: of Ely ...

Pope, Alexander, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000697.0x00015a ...

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

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Epithet: Professor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x0003d6 Epithet: of Add MS 34486 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x0003d5 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x00016e ...

Montgomery, James, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x00029c ...

Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

Procter, Adelaide Anne, poet, al 'Mary Berwick'

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Epithet: poet, al 'Mary Berwick' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002a6 ...

Mundella, Mary Theresa, daughter of A J Mundella

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Epithet: daughter of A J Mundella British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000271 ...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...