A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 822 pages of information about A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 822 pages of information about A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.

BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS, G.C.B. (1838).—­Traveller and biographer. The Great Lone Land (1872), The Wild North Land (1873), The Campaign of the Cataracts (1887), From Naboth’s Vineyard (1907), Lives of Gen. Gordon, Sir.  C. Napier, Sir G.P.  Colley, etc.

CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1844).—­American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881), Dr. Sevier (1884), John March (1884), The Cavalier (1901), Bylow Hill (1902), etc.

CAINE, HALL (1853).—­Novelist.—­Shadow of a Crime (1885), Son of Hagar (1886), The Deemster (1887), The Bondman (1890), The Scapegoat (1891), The Manxman (1894), The Christian (1897), The Eternal City (1901), The Prodigal Son (1904), several of which have been dramatised.  Has also written books on Rossetti and Coleridge.

CAMBRIDGE, ADA (MRS. CROSS) (1844).—­Australian novelist. A Marked Man (1891), The Three Miss Kings (1891), A Little Minx (1893), Fidelis (1895), Materfamilias (1898), The Devastators (1901), A Happy Marriage (1906), The Eternal Feminine (1907), etc.

CAMPBELL, WILFRED, LL.D. (1861).—­Poet. Lake Lyrics (1889), Dread Voyage Poems (1893), Mordred and Hildebrand Tragedies (1895), Beyond the Hills of Dream (1899), Ian of the Orcades (1906) (novel), etc.

CASTLE, EGERTON (1858).—­Novelist. Consequences (1891), The Light of Scarthey (1895), The Jerningham Letters (1896), The Pride of Jennico (1898), Desperate Remedies (play), Young April (1899), The Secret Orchard (1899), Incomparable Bellairs (1904), Wroth (1908) (with Agnes Castle), etc.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM (1865).—­American novelist. In the Quarter (1895), The Red Republic (1896), Lorraine, The Cambric Mask, The Maids of Paradise (1903), A Young Man in a Hurry (1906), The Fighting Chance (1907), etc.

CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH (1874).—­Essayist, etc. The Wild Knight, Greybeards at Play, Twelve Types, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), Club of Queer Trades (1905), Heretics (1905), All Things Considered (1908), books on R. Browning, Dickens, G.F.  Watts, G.B.  Shaw, etc.

CHOLMONDELEY, MARY.—­Novelist. Diana Tempest, Red Pottage, Moth and Rust (1902), Prisoners (1906), etc.

CHURCHILL, WINSTON (1871).—­American novelist. The Celebrity, Richard Carvel (1899), The Crisis (1901), The Crossing (1903), Coniston (1906), Mr. Crewe’s Career (1908).

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE, (see “TWAIN").

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