A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
(male)
01/09/1811 - 08/30/1856
English
Proprietor of several periodicals; edited Figaro in London; staff member of Punch; wrote for Times and Morning Herald; barrister and magistrate; wrote The Comic Blackstone (1846) and other comic works; wrote over 50 plays. See Boase I: 4-5, ODNB.
Abdy, Maria Smith
(female)
02/25/1797 - 07/19/1867
English
A niece of the humorists James and Horace Smith; wrote for the annuals and for the New Monthly Magazine and the Metropolitan Magazine. See Boase I: 3, ODNB.
Acland, Miss
(female)
unknown
Acton, Eliza
(female)
04/17/1799 - 02/13/1859
English
Poet and cookery writer; published Poems (1826), Modern Cookery in all its Branches (1845), other works. See Boase I: 12, ODNB.
Acton, Rose
(female)
1824
English
Her father was a solicitor in Lincolnshire who went insane; coauthor of Poems (1846) by Harriet and Rose Acton; published verse in Irish newspapers. See RLF Application 1170.
Adams, Charles Warren
(male)
1833 - 1903
English
Lawyer, publisher, and anti-vivisectionist; perhaps C. W. Adams, wrote for Cornhill Magazine in 1885, in Wellesley.
Adams, Henry Gardiner
(male)
1811 - 05/01/1881
English
Druggist, chemist, naturalist, and author; secretary of Mechanics Institute of Chatham; wrote books about flowers, birds and butterflies; wrote juvenile literature under the pseudonym nemo; edited collections of poetical quotations. See Boase IV: 32.
Adams, Sarah Fuller Flower
(female)
02/22/1805 - 08/14/1848
English
Poet, actress, and radical; associated with William Johnson Fox; married William Bridges Adams; wrote Vivia Perpetua, a Dramatic Poem (1841); contributed to Westminster Review; advocate for women and working class; wrote hymns including "Nearer, my God, to Thee." See ODNB.
Adams, William Bridges
(male)
05/26/1797 - 07/23/1872
English
Railway engineer; manufactured railway vehicles and tracks; wrote technical books and numerous memoirs and articles; wrote radical political pamphlets and for the Monthly Repository in the 1830s. See Boase I: 19, ODNB.
Adamson, James
(male)
1795 - 07/16/1874
Scottish
Son of a pastor, he became pastor of the Scottish Church at Capetown in 1828; contributed to the newspaper press and the philosophical journals of Edinburgh. See Cape Monthly Magazine, February 1875.
Addis, John
(male)
1831 - 04/20/1876
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Of Rustington, Sussex; wrote Elizabethan Echoes: or, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets (1879).
Addison, Henry Robert
(male)
1805 - 06/24/1876
Irish
Born in Calcutta; soldier; wrote dramas and farces for English theatre; wrote songs and articles for monthly magazines; author of about 12 novels. See Boase I: 22, ODNB.
Agar-Ellis, George James Welbore
(male)
01/14/1797 - 07/10/1833
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Politician and miscellaneous writer; wrote The True History of the State Prisoner Commonly Called the Iron Mask (1826), Inquiries Respecting the Character of Clarendon (1827), Life of Frederick II (1831). See ODNB.
Aguilar, Grace
(female)
06/02/1816 - 09/16/1847
English
Novelist of Jewish origin; wrote religious works and poems; wrote novels Home Influence (1847) and A Mother's Recompense (1850), and other works. See ODNB.
Ainsworth, William Harrison
(male)
02/04/1805 - 01/03/1882
English
Author, editor, and publisher; edited and published Ainsworth's Magazine and the New Monthly Magazine; edited Bentley's Miscellany; wrote historical novels Jack Sheppard, Old St. Paul's, Lancashire Witches, and many others. See Boase I: 33-34, ODNB.
Aird, Thomas
(male)
08/28/1802 - 04/25/1876
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Poet, essayist, and journalist; edited Edinburgh Weekly Journal; wrote The Old Batchelor in the Scottish Village (1845), Poetical Works (1848); contributed to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. See Boase I: 34, ODNB.
Akerman, John Yonge
(male)
06/12/1806 - 11/18/1873
English
Numismatist and antiquary; secretary to the radical politician William Cobbett; editor of Archaeologia and Numismatic Journal; established Numismatic society; published catalogs and archaeological guides. See Boase I: 37, ODNB.
Aldrich, James
(male)
07/14/1810 - 09/09/1856
American
Poet and journalist; founded the New York Literary Gazette.
Aldridge, R.W.
(unknown)
unknown
Alexander, Cecil Frances (Humphreys)
(female)
1818 - 10/12/1895
Irish
Hymn writer and poet on religious subjects; married William Alexander, the rector of Termonamongan in Derry, in 1850; wrote The Baron's Little Daughter and Other Tales (1848). See Boase IV: 72, ODNB.
