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.

GARNETT, EDWARD (1868).—­Dramatic critic, etc. An Imaged World (1894), The Breaking Point (a censored play, 1907).

GASQUET, RIGHT REV.  FRANCIS AIDAN, D.D. (1846).—­Historical writer. Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries (1888-89), Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer (1890), The Great Pestilence (1893), Sketch of Monastic Constitutional History (1896), Short History of the Catholic Church in England (1903), Lord Acton and his Circle, Parish Life in Mediaeval England (1906), etc.

GIBERNE, AGNES.—­Novelist and scientific writer.  Tales, Conlyng Castle, Life Tangles, Roy, Stories of the Abbey Precincts, Rowena (1906), Astronomy, Sun, Moon, and Stars, Starry Skies, The World’s Foundations, Radiant Suns, etc.

GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836).—­Dramatist and humorist. The Palace of Truth (1870), Pygmalion and Galatea (1871), Trial by Jury (1878), Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Yeomen of the Guard, Bab Ballads.

GOLLANCZ, ISRAEL, Litt.D. (1864).—­Scholar.  Ed. Cynewulf’s Christ (1892), Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Early English Text Society), and ed.  Temple Shakespeare (1894-96).

GORDON-STABLES, WILLIAM (1840).—­Novelist and writer of boys’ books.  Has written 136 books, including Cruise of the “Snowbird," Every Inch a Sailor, Our Humble Friends and Fellow-Mortals, Pirates’ Gold, Frank Hardinge, The Rose o’ Allandale, etc.

GOSSE, EDMUND, LL.D. (1849).—­Poet and critic. On Viol and Flute (1873), King Erik (1876), New Poems (1879), Firdausi in Exile (1885), Collected Poems (1896), Seventeenth Century Studies (1883), History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889), Secret of Narcisse (1892), The Jacobean Poets (1894), History of Modern English Literature (1897), French Profiles (1905), Father and Son (1908), and Lives of Gray (1882), Congreve (1888), P.H.  Gosse (1890), Donne (1899), Jeremy Taylor (1904), C. Patmore (1905), Sir Thomas Browne (1905), etc.

GOULD, NATHANIEL (1857).—­Sporting novelist. The Double Event (1891), Running it Off (1892), Thrown Away (1894), The Miner’s Cup (1896), A Gentleman Rider (1898), A Stable Mystery (1900), The Rajah’s Racer (1904), A Sporting Squatter (1906), A Run of Luck (1907), etc., and many others.

GRAHAME, KENNETH.—­Novelist. Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), Dream Days (1898), and The Headswoman (1898).

GRAND, SARAH (CLARKE).—­Novelist. Singularly Deluded, Ideala, The Heavenly Twins (1893), Our Manifold Nature (1894), The Modern Man and Maid (1898), Babs the Impossible (1900), etc.

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