Collins, John Churton
(male)
03/26/1848 - 09/25/1908
English
Balliol College, Oxford
Journalist, essayist and lecturer; wrote Sir Joshua Reynolds (1874), published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire (1886), and other works; contributed to the principal reviews. See ODNB.
Dilke, Emilia Francis (Strong)
(female)
09/02/1840 - 10/24/1904
English
Art historian. Correct Wellesley's second given name: Francis, not Frances. She did not use ‘Emilia’ until her second marriage, in 1885, to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, but was known first as Francis Strong and after her first marriage as Francis Pattison. See ODNB for a discussion of her preference for the masculine spelling. It would also be useful to follow ODNB in adding ‘trade unionist’ as a marker; see titles of some of her articles.
Garnett, Richard
(male)
02/27/1835 - 04/13/1906
English
Keeper of the Printed Books, British Museum; wrote biographies of Thomas Carlyle, John Milton, William Blake, and others; The Age of Dryden (1895). See ODNB.
Gosse, Edmund William
(male)
09/21/1849 - 05/16/1928
English
Poet, author, and critic; wrote Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe (1879); wrote on sculpture for the Saturday Review; wrote the autobiographical Father and Son (1907) and many other works. See ODNB.
Henley, William Ernest
(male)
08/23/1849 - 07/11/1903
English
Poet and editor; wrote "Invictus"; suffered from tuberculosis; edited The London and the National Observer; wrote Views and Reviews (1890). See ODNB.
Lang, Andrew
(male)
03/31/1844 - 07/20/1912
Scottish
St. Andrews University; Balliol College, Oxford
Poet, novelist, literary critic, and collector of folk and fairy tales. See ODNB.
Lang, Leonora Blanche (Alleyne)
(female)
1851 - 07/10/1933
English
Author, editor, and translator; best known for a series of Fairy Books; reviewer for the Saturday Review and the Academy.
Monkhouse, William Cosmo
(male)
03/18/1840 - 07/02/1901
English
Poet and art critic; wrote The Italian Pre-Raphaelites (1887) and British Contemporary Artists (1899). See ODNB.
Rossetti, William Michael
(male)
09/25/1829 - 02/05/1919
English
Writer and critic; edited the Germ; founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; edited edition of Walt Whitman's poetry. See ODNB.
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman
(male)
10/23/1845 - 01/28/1933
English
Merton College, Oxford
Writer, literary historian, scholar, critic; 1883-1894 assistant editor of the Saturday Review. See ODNB.
Symonds, John Addington
(male)
10/05/1840 - 04/19/1893
English
Balliol College, Oxford
Poet and literary critic; wrote biographies of writers and artists; known for his homosexuality; wrote The History of the Renaissance in Italy (1875-1886) and other works. See Boase III: 858-859, ODNB.
Symons, Arthur William
(male)
02/28/1865 - 01/22/1945
English
Poet and critic; wrote An Introduction to the Study of Browning (1886); contributed regularly to the Athenaeum, Saturday Review and Fortnightly Review. See ODNB.
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