Allingham, William
(male)
03/19/1824 - 11/18/1889
Irish
Poet, diarist, and editor; customs clerk; editor of Fraser's Magazine 1874-9; wrote Poems (1850), Peace and War, an ode (1854), many other works of poetry and songs. See Boase IV: 97-8, ODNB.
Angus, Joseph
(male)
1816 - 1902
unknown
Baptist divine; wrote on Egyptian history and biblical subjects.
Birch, Samuel
(male)
11/03/1813 - 12/27/1885
English
Leading Egyptologist; keeper of the Oriental Medieval and British antiquities at the British Museum; wrote works on antiquities, hieroglyphics, ancient pottery, etc. See Boase I: 283, ODNB.
Bowring, Sir John
(male)
10/17/1792 - 11/23/1872
English
Editor of Westminster Review, M.P., sent on diplomatic and commercial missions. Considered a great linguist. Published volumes of translated poems, travel books, tales and sketches. See Boase I: 362, ODNB.
Brown, Charles Armitage
(male)
04/14/1787 - 06/05/1842
English
Member of Keats circle and associate of Charles Dilke; published his own and Keat's poems in New Monthly Magazine. See ODNB.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(female)
03/06/1806 - 06/29/1861
English
Born Elizabeth Barrett, married Robert Browning, author of many poems including Aurora Leigh, lived many years in Florence. See Boase I: 447, ODNB.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill
(male)
12/15/1808 - 02/16/1872
English
Reviewer and music critic for the Athenaeum, wrote Memorials of Mrs. Hemans (1836), Modern German Music, other works. See Boase I: 614, ODNB.
Costello, Dudley
(male)
1803 - 09/30/1865
Irish
Contributed to many periodicals from 1835 to his death, foreign correspondent for newspapers, wrote travel books. See Boase I: 725, ODNB.
Cunningham, Peter
(male)
04/01/1816 - 05/18/1869
English
Christ's Hospital, London
Art critic of Pictorial Times; author of Songs of England and Scotland (1835); wrote The Handbook of London (1849); edited many books. See Boase I: 787, ODNB.
Doran, John
(male)
03/11/1807 - 01/25/1878
English
Journalist and miscellaneous writer; wrote for the Literary Chronicle and the Athenaeum; edited the Church and State Gazette and Notes and Queries; wrote Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (1855), Annals of the English Stage from T. Betterton to E. Kean (1864) and other works. See Boase I: 898, ODNB.
Finlay, George
(male)
12/21/1799 - 01/26/1875
Scottish
University of Glasgow; University of Gottingen
Historian; lived in Greece as correspondent of the London Times; wrote A History of Greece from Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Times. See Boase I: 1048-9, ODNB.
Green, John Richard
(male)
12/12/1837 - 03/07/1883
English
Magdalen College, Oxford; Jesus College, Oxford
Historian and cleric; curate of Holy Trinity, Hoxton; wrote A Short History of the English People (1874) and other works; contributed to the Saturday Review. See Boase I: 1225, ODNB.
Heraud, John Abraham
(male)
05/07/1799 - 04/20/1887
English
Edited The Sunbeam, the Monthly Magazine (1839-1842); contributed to Fraser's Magazine, Athenaeum, Illustrated London News; wrote plays, histories, other works. See Boase I: 1437, ODNB.
Hervey, Eleanora Louisa Montagu
(female)
11/16/1811 - 1903
English
Wrote The bard of the sea-kings: a legend of Kingley-vale with other poems (1833), Edith of Graystock (1833). See Minor British Poets: Part I, The Romantic Period, 1789-1839, University of California at Davis.
Hervey, Thomas Kibble
(male)
02/04/1799 - 02/27/1859
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Poet, critic, and journalist; edited Friendship's Offering, the Amaranth, and the Athenaeum; wrote Australia with other poems (1824), The Poetical Sketch Book (1829), other works. See Boase I: 1451, ODNB.
Lamb, Charles
(male)
02/10/1775 - 12/27/1834
English
Essayist; clerk for East India Company; wrote for newspapers; wrote poetry; friend of Coleridge and Hazlitt; famous essays as 'Elia" for London Magazine. See ODNB.
Ollier, Edmund
(male)
11/26/1826 - 04/19/1886
English
Editor and writer; wrote for Ainsworth's Magazine, the Athenaeum, All the Year Round, and Household Words; on staff at the Daily News; wrote Poems from the Greek Mythology (1867) and works on history and on painting; editor of The Atlas and other periodicals. See Boase II: 1240-1, ODNB.
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