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.

FRAZER, JAMES GEORGE, LL.D., D.C.L., (1854).—­Writer on comparative religion, etc. Totemism (1887), The Golden Bough (1890), Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship (1905), Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Studies in the History of Oriental Religion (1906), Questions on the Customs, Beliefs, and Languages of Savages (1907), etc.

FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD, Ph.D., LL.D. (1833).—­Shakespearian scholar.  Variorum ed. of Shakespeare (1871).

FURNIVALL, FREDERICK JAMES, Ph.D., D.Litt., (1825).—­Scholar.  Has ed. many publications in connection with the Early English Text, Chaucer, Ballad, New Shakespeare, and similar Societies, of several of which he was the founder.

GAIRDNER, JAMES, C.B., LL.D. (1828).—­Historian.  Ed. in Rolls Series Memorials of Henry VII., Letters and Papers of the Reigns of Richard III. and Henry VII., Calendar of Henry VIII., vols. v. to xx., ed. the Paston Letters (1900), and various vols. for the Camden Society, author of England in the Early Chroniclers of Europe Series, a Life of Richard III., The English Church in the Sixteenth Century to the Death of Mary (1902), etc.

GALSWORTHY, JOHN (1867).—­Novelist and playwright.  Novels:  Jocelyn (1898), Villa Rubein (1900), The Island Pharisees (1904), The Man of Property (1906), The Country House (1907), A Commentary (1908), Fraternity (1909).  Plays:  The Silver Box (1906), Joy (1907), and Strife (1909), Justice (1910).

GALTON, SIR FRANCIS, F.R.S., D.C.L. (1822).—­Traveller and anthropologist. Tropical South Africa (1853), Hereditary Genius (1869), English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture (1874), Human Faculty (1883), Natural Inheritance (1889), Finger Prints (1893), Noteworthy Families (with E. Schuster) (1906), etc.

GARDNER, EDMUND GARRATT (1869).—­Miscellaneous writer. Dante’s Ten Heavens (1898), Story of Florence (1900), Dukes and Ports in Ferrara (1904), The King of Court Poets (1906), Saint Catherine of Siena (1907), Lyrical Poetry of Dante Alighieri (1910), etc.

GARDNER, ERNEST ARTHUR (1862).—­Writer on Greek antiquities. Chapter on Inscriptions in Naukratis I. (1886), Naukratis II. (1888), Handbook of Greek Sculpture (1896-97), A Companion to Greek Studies (1905), etc.

GARDNER, PERCY, Litt.D., LL.D. (1846).—­Writer on Greek art, etc.  Part ed. of the British Museum Coin Catalogues (1873-86), The Parthian Coinage (1877), Samos and Samian Coinage (1882), The Types of Greek Coins (1883), New Chapters in Greek History (1892), Sculptured Tombs of Hellas (1896), Historic View of the New Testament (1901). etc.

GARNETT, CONSTANCE (1862).—­Translator of Novels and Tales of Turgenev (1895-99), etc.

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