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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.

    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.

    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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