Ainsworth, William Harrison
(male)
02/04/1805 - 01/03/1882
English
Author, editor, and publisher; edited and published Ainsworth's Magazine and the New Monthly Magazine; edited Bentley's Miscellany; wrote historical novels Jack Sheppard, Old St. Paul's, Lancashire Witches, and many others. See Boase I: 33-34, ODNB.
Aldridge, R.W.
(unknown)
unknown
Anthony, Charles
(male)
1803 - 02/05/1885
English
Founder of Hereford Times; mayor of Hereford. See Boase I: 76.
Anthony, Joseph P. Jr.
(male)
1820 - 05/08/1861
English
Poetry published in 1854 Knickerbocker, 1852 DUM which notes he lived in Manchester; died in California. See Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, May 10, 1861.
Bailey, Philip James
(male)
04/22/1816 - 09/06/1902
English
University of Glasgow
Poet; wrote Festus, a poem (1848), The Angel World: and other poems (1850), The Age: a Colloquial Satire (1858), and other works. See ODNB.
Bayley, Frederick William Naylor
(male)
1808 - 12/01/1852
Irish
Literary, drama, and music critic for Morning Post; started National Omnibus; edited the Illustrated London News; wrote popular songs, wrote Four Years Residence in the West Indies (1830). See Boase I: 199-200, ODNB.
Blanchard, (Samuel) Laman
(male)
05/15/1803 - 02/15/1845
English
Contributed to or acted as editor or sub-editor for Monthly Magazine, True Sun, Court Journal, Constitutional, the Examiner, Ainsworth's Magazine, George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Committed suicide. See ODNB.
Boyd, Percy
(male)
1828 - 01/01/1876
Irish
Friend of Dickens and Thackeray; contributor to Belgravia; author of A book of Ballads from the German (1848). See Boase I: 367.
Brailsford, Willson
(male)
1803 - 03/03/1882
English
A Wesleyan Methodist minister who published three books of poetry and wrote many sonnets. (In Wellesley Index as William Brailsford.) See Boase IV: 482.
Brandt, Francis Frederick
(male)
1819 - 12/06/1874
English
A barrister; reported for the Times in Court of Common Pleas; contributed to Bell’s Life in London. See Boase I: 383, ODNB.
Carpenter, Joseph Edwards
(male)
11/02/1813 - 05/06/1885
Irish
A playwright and composer, he wrote lyrics for over 2,500 songs and published in Ainsworth's Magazine and other periodicals. See Boase I:554.
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.
Costello, Louisa Stuart
(female)
1799 - 04/24/1870
Irish
A poet, historian, journalist, painter and novelist, she is perhaps best known for her travel writing. She was the sister of Dudley Costello. See Boase I: 725-6, ODNB.
Craig, John Duncan
(male)
09/23/1830 - 10/10/1909
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Poet, writer, and cleric; chaplain in Irish prison system.
D'Orsay, Harriette Anne Frances
(female)
1812 - 12/18/1869
English
Born Harriet Gardiner, married at age 15 to the Count d'Orsay; associated with the household of Lady Blessington; second marriage was to Charles Spencer Cowper.
Day, Julia
(female)
English
Novelist and poet; wrote Poems (1847), Poems: Second Series (1849), The Old Engagement: a Spinster's Story (1852); The Gilberts and Their Guests (1858).
de Crespigny, Caroline
(female)
1795 - 1864
English
Daughter of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich; published My Souvenir, or Poems by Caroline de Crespigny with Translations (1844); evidently translated from German. See English Translations, Paraphrases, and Emulations of the Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010): 264.
Dwyer, Francis Doyne
(male)
1809 - 1880
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Major in Austrian Imperial and Royal Service; wrote about military affairs involving Austrian or Prussian forces. See "England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2JDZ-RZR : accessed 10 March 2015).
Featherstone, Thomas
(male)
1809 - 1863
English
Painter and writer of Leicester; wrote Midsummer Days in Italy, Legends of Leicester (1838), The Student. A Drama in Two Acts (1838).
Forrest, John Lawrence
(male)
1815 - 07/09/1858
Irish
Native of Cork; wrote about Irish legends; died in Cincinnati.
