Austin, Wiltshire Stanton
(male)
1826 - 09/07/1875
English
Exeter College, Oxford
Barrister; one of the original contributors to Temple Bar; co-author of The Lives of the Poets-Laureate (1853), edited Weeds from the Isis (1856). See Boase IV: 209.
Bowker, James
(male)
English
Miscellaneous writer; active in 1860s and 1870s; wrote for Chamber's Journal, Temple Bar, Tinsley's Magazine, and other periodicals; wrote Goblin Stories and Fairy Tales of Lancashire (1878); fellow of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland.
Bradfield, Thomas
(male)
English
This Thomas Bradfield must have been born before 1790, and lived to the late 1850s.
Browne, Charles Thomas
(male)
1825 - 1868
English
Trinity College, Dublin
Born in Somerset, a barrister (Inner Temple) and journalist, died in Basingstoke. See Boase I:443 and Royal Literary Fund case 1759.
Browne, Richard Charles
(male)
1838 - 12/11/1907
English
In Wellesley as "Lewis Brown." A ‘proprietor’ of the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, living near it on the top floor of 4, Finsbury Circus (‘above a whole nest of companies, and lawyers, and “promoters”’), at least from 1889 also with a ‘cottage’ in Wells, Somerset. Information from letters to Richard Bentley in Bentley Corresp., Univ. Illinois.
Cameron, Mary Lovett
(female)
1848 - 04/20/1930
English
Carnsew, Henry
(male)
1826 - 1891
English
Probably the Henry Carnsew, esq., who had ‘an extensive mansion in the Domestic Gothic style in Billingshurst, Sussex (Kelly’s Post Office Directory of …Sussex, 1867), his main address at the end of 1879 was Brussels, from which he sometimes made visits to England. At the same time he was ‘in some measure dependant upon my pen’ (Bentley Corresp., Univ. Illinois).
Clarke, Charles Cowden
(male)
12/15/1787 - 03/13/1877
English
Bookseller and publisher in London; lectured on Shakespeare and other dramatists and poets; wrote Tales from Chaucer (1833), Shakespeare's Characters (1863), other works; music publisher with Alfred Novello. See Boase I: 631, ODNB.
Cobbe, Frances Mary Power
(female)
1836 - 02/06/1880
Irish
Daughter of Lieut-General George Cobbe; see Sally Mitchell, VPR 34 (2001), 383-386.
Cooper, Thomas Henry
(male)
1813 - 12/25/1881
English
Surgeon and botanist; plagiarized catalogue of plants; FRCS. See ODNB.
Godfrey, Mary Rose
(female)
1843 - 1888
English
Wrote novels Loyal (1872), My Queen (1879), Unspotted from the World (1883); née Headland, Mrs. George William Godfrey.
Halliday, Andrew
(male)
1830 - 04/10/1877
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Wrote for Morning Chronicle; contributed to Mayhew's London Labour (1851), wrote for All the year round (1861); wrote several successful plays. See Boase I: 1294-5, ODNB.
Henderson, Frank
(male)
1836 - 07/21/1889
Scottish
Member of Dundee town council, M.P. For Dundee. See Boase V: 630.
Kempt, R.A.
(unknown)
unknown
Kenney, Charles Lamb
(male)
04/29/1821 - 08/25/1881
Irish
Barrister, man of letters; wrote for the Times; secretary to F. De Lesseps 1856-7; adopted more than 20 foreign operas; wrote The Gates of the East (1857), other works. See Boase II: 203, ODNB.
Kingsford, Anna
(female)
09/16/1846 - 02/22/1888
English
Physician and spiritualist; née Bonus; wrote Beatrice: a Tale of the Early Christians (1863); wrote for the Churchman's Companion, the Penny Post, and Ladies Pictorial; ran Ladies Own Paper; anti-vivisectionist. See Boase II: 234, ODNB.
Landers, John
(male)
English
Of Edinburgh.
Mudie, Christabel
(female)
1856
English
Daughter of Charles Edward Mudie, of Mudie's Circulating Library.
Mulley, Jane
(female)
English
Translator of fairy tales.
Parkinson, Joseph Charles
(male)
1833 - 10/24/1908
English
Journalist, civil servant and social reformer.
