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    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

    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.
    (Also in the Wellesley Index.)

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