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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher

Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher (1811?-1896). -- Novelist and miscellaneous writer, dau. of Dr. Lyman Beecher, a well-known American clergyman, and sister of Henry Ward B., one of the most popular preachers whom America has produced, was b. at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811 or 1812. After spending some years as a teacher, she m. the Rev. Calvin E. Stowe. Up till 1852 all she had written was a little vol. of stories which failed to attract attention. In that year, at the suggestion of a sister-in-law, she decided to write something against slavery, and produced Uncle Tom's Cabin, which originally appeared in serial form in a magazine, The National Era. It did not at the time receive much attention, but on its appearance in a separate form it took the world by storm. Its sale soon reached 400,000 copies, and the reprints have probably page 364reached a far greater number. It was translated into numerous foreign languages, and had a powerful effect in hurrying on the events which ultimately resulted in emancipation. Her later works include Dred, The Minister's Wooing, Agnes of Sorrento, The Pearl of Orr's Island, and Old Town Folks. Some of these, especially the last, are in a literary sense much superior to Uncle Tom's Cabin, but none of them had more than an ordinary success. In 1869 an article on Lord Byron involved her in a somewhat unfortunate controversy.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Strickland, Agnes

Strickland, Agnes (1796 or 1806-1874). -- Historical writer, dau. of Thomas S., of Royden Hall, Suffolk, was ed. by her f., and began her literary career with a poem, Worcester Field, followed by The Seven Ages of Woman and Demetrius. Abandoning poetry she next produced among others Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children (1833), The Pilgrims of Walsingham (1835), Tales and Stories from History (1836). Her chief works, however, are Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, and Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses, etc. (8 vols., 1850-59), Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England (1861), and Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, in some of which she was assisted by her sister Elizabeth. Though laborious and conscientious she lacked the judicial faculty, and her style does not rise above mediocrity.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Strype, John

Strype, John (1643-1737). -- Ecclesiastical historian, b. at Hackney, and ed. at St. Paul's School and Camb., took orders and, among other livings, held the Rectory of Low Leyton, Essex, for upwards of 60 years. He made a large collection of original documents, chiefly relating to the Tudor period, and was a voluminous author. Among his works are Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer (1694), Life of Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State to Edward VI. and Elizabethpage 365 (1698), Annals of the Reformation (1709-31), and Ecclesiastical Memorials (1721); besides Lives of Bishop Aylmer and Archbishops Grindal, Parker, and Whitgift. S., who was a painstaking and honest, but dull and unmethodical, writer, remains an authority.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Stockton, Francis Richard

Stockton, Francis Richard (1834-1902). -- B. at Philadelphia, was an engraver and journalist. He became well known as a writer of stories for children, and of amusing books of which Rudder Grange (1879) is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger was also highly popular. Others are Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, Captain's Toll-gate, etc. His work was very unequal in interest.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Story, William Wetmore

Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895). -- Sculptor, poet, etc., b. at Salem, Mass., was intended for the law, but became a sculptor and an eminent man of letters. His writings include Roba di Roma (1862), The Tragedy of Nero (1875), The Castle of St. Angelo (1877), He and She (1883), Conversations in a Studio, A Poet's Portfolio (1894), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Stow, John

Stow, John (1525-1605). -- Historian and antiquary, b. in London, s. of a tailor, and brought up to the same trade. He had, however, an irresistible taste for transcribing and collecting ancient documents, and pursuing antiquarian and historical researches, to which he ultimately entirely devoted himself. This he was enabled to do partly through the munificence of Archbishop Parker. He made large collections of old books and manuscripts, and wrote and ed. several works of importance and authority, including The Woorkes of Geoffrey Chaucer, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles (1561), afterwards called Annales of England, ed. of the chronicles of Matthew Paris and others, of Holinshed's Chronicle, and A Survey of London (1598). It is sad to think that the only reward of his sacrifices and labours in the public interest was a patent from James I. to collect "among our loving subjects their voluntary contributions and kind gratuities."
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Miller (George)

​MILLER (GEORGE), printer in London; Blackfriars, 1601-46. Son of George Miller, of Kettering, co. Northampton, schoolmaster. Apprentice to Richard Field, successor to Thomas Vautrollier, for seven years from Michaelmas, 1604. [Arber, ii. 281.] Field at his death left him a bequest of twenty shillings to purchase a ring. [Plomer, Wills, p. 51.] George Miller and Richard Badger afterwards purchased the business. [Arber, iii. 703.] George Miller died before October 8th, 1646, on which day his will, dated July 20th preceding, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. [P.C.C. 147. Twisse.] In it occurs this passage: "Item I give to my sonne Abraham the lease of my house in the Blackfriars with the letter and presses copies and all other utensils belonginge to the printinge house to enter all these immediately after my decease." Miller had four other sons, William, John, Symon, and George, all of whom except John are found as booksellers. The will also mentions a daughter Martha, a brother William, and sisters Elizabeth Coe, Ellen Brewster, Elizabeth Archer, and Sarah Foster, the residue being left to his wife Anne. Amongst the witnesses was John Clarke, probably the bookseller of that name.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Miller (William)

​MILLER (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Gilded Acron [acorn] in St. Paul's Churchyard, near the little north door, 1661–98. Believed to be the son William mentioned in the will of George Miller, printer at Blackfriars, who died in 1646. William Miller was an important bookseller throughout the reign of Charles II and James II. [Arber, Term Catalogues, vols. i. and ii.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Milleson (John)

​MILLESON (JOHN), bookseller In Cambridge; Over against Great St. Maries, 1642. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled A Protestants account of his orthodox holding in matters of religion, 1642. [Bowes, Cambridge Books, p. 29, no. 79.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Million (John)

​MILLION (JOHN), bookseller in London; Man in the Moon, in the Little Old Bayly, 1666. Only known from the imprint to Elkanah Settle's Mare Clausum: Or a Ransack for the Dutch, 1666, printed by Peter Lilliecrap, q.v. He appears to have been succeeded by Henry Million, possibly a son. [Arber, Term Catalogues, i., pp. 57, etc.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Mills (Richard)

​MILLS (RICHARD), bookseller in London; Pestel and Mortar without Temple Bar, 1665–74. Last entry in Term Catalogues, Easter, 1674. [Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 171.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Miller (James)

​MILLER (JAMES), bookseller at Edinburgh, (1) In the Cowgate, at the sign of S. John the Divine, at the foot of the Colledge-wynd', 1665; (2) On the North side of the street against the Crosse, at the sign of S. John the Divine, 1671. (1665–72). One of the six booksellers who in 1671 appealed against A. Anderson. Will registered August 2nd, 1672. [[[Author:H. G. Aldis|H. G. Aldis]], List of Books, p. 117.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Miller (Simon)

​MILLER (SIMON), bookseller in London; Star in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1653–84. Son of George Miller. Apprenticed April 24th, 1645, to Andrew Crooke. Four books published by him are advertised at the end of Parivale's Historie of the Iron Age, 1659.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Miller (George), junior

​MILLER (GEORGE), junior, printer in London, 1665. His imprint is found in John Webster's The White Devil, 1665. [b.m. 644 f. 76.] He was probably the son of George Miller, printer at Blackfriars.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Milner (Peter)

​MILNER (PETER) (?) bookseller in Warrington, Lancashire, c. 1641. In the will of James Milner, of Warrington, co. Lancashire, stationer, proved on the 18th April, 1639, occurs the following passage: "To Peter Milner my servant the half of the books in my shop in Warrington and all such patternes, workloomes, and colers w$^{ch}$ I use to paint and drawe worke withall." [Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 37, pp. 67-115; Booksellers and Stationers in Warrington, 1639-1657. By W. H. Rylands, F.S.A.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Milward (William)

​MILWARD (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Without Westminster Hall Gate, 1656. Only known from the imprint to F. Duke's Fulness & Freeness of God's Grace, 1656.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Puttenham, George

​PUTTENHAM, George (1530?-1590).—Was one of the s. of Robert P., a country gentleman. There has been attributed to him the authorship of The Arte of Poesie, a treatise of some length divided into three parts, (i) of poets and poesy, (2) of proportion, 3) of ornament. It is now thought rather more likely that it was written by his brother Richard (1520?-1601). George was the author of an Apologie for Queen Elizabeth's treatment of Mary Queen of Scots.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Quarles, Francis

​QUARLES, Francis (1592-1644).—Poet, b. at the manor house of Stewards near Romford, was at Camb., and studied law at Lincoln's Inn. Thereafter he went to the Continent, and at Heidelberg acted as cup-bearer to Elizabeth of Bohemia, dau. of James I. He next appears as sec. to Archbishop Ussher in Ireland, and was in 1639 Chronologer to the City of London. On the outbreak of the Civil War he sided with the Royalists, and was plundered by the Parliamentarians of his books and rare manuscripts, which is said to have so grieved him as to bring about his death. His first book of poems was A Feast for Worms (1620); others were Hadassa (Esther) (1621), Sion's Elegies (1625), and Divine Emblems (1635), by far his most popular book. His style was that fashionable in his day, affected, artificial, and full of "conceits," but he had both real poetical fire and genuine wit, mixed with much that was false in taste, and though quaint and crabbed, is seldom feeble or dull. He was twice m., and had by his first wife 18 children.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann

​RADCLIFFE, Mrs. Ann (Ward) (1764-1823).—Novelist, only dau. of parents in a respectable position, in 1787 m. Mr. William Radcliffe, ed. and proprietor of a weekly newspaper, the English Chronicle. In 1789 she pub. her first novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, of which the scene is laid in Scotland. It, however, gave little promise of the future power of the author. In the following year appeared The Sicilian Romance, which attracted attention by its vivid descriptions and startling incidents. Next came The Romance of the Forest (1791), followed by The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian (1797), a story of the Inquisition, the last of her works pub. during her life-time. Gaston de Blondeville, ed. by Sergeant Talfourd, was brought out posthumously. Mrs. R. has been called the Salvator Rosa of British novelists. She excels in the description of scenes of mystery and terror whether of natural scenery or incident: in the former displaying a high degree of imaginative power, and in the latter great ingenuity and fertility of invention. She had, however, little power of delineating character, Though her works belong to a type now out of fashion, they will ​always possess an historical interest as marking a stage in the development of English fiction.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Psalmanazar, George

​PSALMANAZAR, George (1679?-1763).—Literary impostor. His real name is unknown. He is believed to have been a native of France or Switzerland, but represented himself as a native of the island of Formosa, and palmed off a Formosan language of his own construction, to which he afterwards added a description of the island. For a time he was in the military service of the Duke of Mecklenburg, and formed a connection with William Innes, chaplain of a Scottish regiment, who collaborated with him in his frauds, and introduced various refinements into his methods. Innes, however, was appointed chaplain to the forces in Portugal, and P. was unable to maintain his impositions, and was exposed. After a serious illness in 1728 he turned over a new leaf and became a respectable and efficient literary hack; his works in his latter days included a General History of Printing, contributions to the Universal History, and an Autiobiography containing an account of his impostures.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Purchas, Samuel

​PURCHAS, Samuel (1575?-1626).—Compiler of travels, b. at Thaxton, and ed. at Camb., took orders, and held various benefices, including the rectory of St. Martin's, Ludgate Hill. The papers of R. Hakluyt (q.v.) came into his hands, and he made several compilations relating to man, his nature, doings, and surroundings. His three works are (i) Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places, etc.; (2) Purchas his Pilgrim, Microcosmus, or the History of Man, etc.; and (3) Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Land Travels, etc. Although credulous, diffuse, and confused, these works have preserved many interesting and curious matters'. which would otherwise have been lost,
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Pusey, Edward Bouverie

​PUSEY, Edward Bouverie (1800-1882).—Scholar and theologian, b. at Pusey, Berks, ed. at Eton and Oxf., belonged to the family of Lord Folkstone, whose name was Bouverie, his f. assuming that of P. on inheriting certain estates. After studying in Germany, he became in 1828 Regius Prof. of Hebrew at Oxf. His first important work was an Essay on the Causes of Rationalism in German Theology, and the arrest of similar tendencies in England became one of the leading objects of his life. He was one of the chief leaders of the Tractarian movement, and contributed tracts on Baptism and on Fasting. In consequence of a sermon on the Eucharist, he was in 1843 suspended from the office of Univ. Preacher which he then held. Later writings related to Confession and The Doctrine of the Real Presence, and in 1865 he issued an Eirenicon in support of union with the Church of Rome. He was prominent in all movements and controversies affecting the Univ., ​and was foremost among the prosecutors of Jowett (q.v.}. Among his other literary labours are commentaries on Daniel and the minor Prophets, a treatise on Everlasting Punishment, and a Catalogue of the Arabic MS. in the Bodleian Library.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Raine, Allen

​RAINE, Allen (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).—Novelist. A Welsh Singer (1897), Torn Sails (1898), A Welsh Witch (1901), Queen of the Rushes (1906), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ramsay, Allan

​Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758).—Poet, s. of a mine manager at Leadhills, Dumfriesshire, who claimed kin with the Ramsays of Dalhousie. In his infancy he lost his f., and his mother m a small "laird," who gave him the ordinary parish school education. In 1701 he came to Edinburgh as apprentice to a wig-maker, took to writing poetry, became a member of the "Easy Club," of which Pitcairn and Ruddiman, the grammarian, were members, and of which he was made "laureate." The club pub. his poems as they were thrown off, and their appearance soon began to be awaited with interest. In 1716 he pub. an additional canto to Christ's Kirk on the Green, a humorous poem sometimes attributed to James I., and in 1719 he became a bookseller, his shop being a meeting-place of the literati of the city. A coll. ed. of his poems appeared in 1720, among the subscribers to which were Pope, Steele, Arbuthnot, and Gay. It was followed by Fables and Tales, and other poems. In 1724 he began the Tea Table Miscellany, a collection of new Scots songs set to old melodies, and the Evergreen, a collection of old Scots poems with which R. as ed. took great liberties. This was a kind of work for which he was not qualified, and in which he was far from successful. The Gentle Shepherd, by far his best known and most meritorious work, appeared in 1725, and had an immediate popularity which, to a certain extent, it retains. It is a pastoral drama, and abounds in character, unaffected sentiment, and vivid description. After this success R., satisfied with his reputation, produced nothing more of importance. He was the first to introduce the circulating library into Scotland, and among his other enterprises was an unsuccessful attempt to establish a theatre in Edin. On the whole his life was a happy and successful one, and he had the advantage of a cheerful, sanguine, and contented spirit. His foible was an innocent and good-natured vanity.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Pye, Henry James

​PYE, Henry James (1745-1813).—A country gentleman of Berkshire, who pub. Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epic, translated the Poetics of Aristotle, and was Poet Laureate from 1790. In the last capacity he wrote official poems of ludicrous dulness, and was generally a jest and a byword in literary circles.
# A Spring Harvest/A Sonnet

A SONNET
# A Spring Harvest/April 1916

APRIL 1916
# A Spring Harvest/Creator Spiritus

CREATOR SPIRITUS
# A Spring Harvest/For R. Q. G.

FOR R. Q. G.
July 1916
# A Spring Harvest/Domum redit Poeta

DOMUN REDIT POETA
# A Spring Harvest/Anglia Valida in Senectute

ANGLIA VALIDA IN SENECTUTE
(On The Declaration Of War)
# A Spring Harvest/Ave atque Vale

AVE ATQUE VALE
# A Spring Harvest/Awakening

AWAKENING
# A Spring Harvest/A Study

A STUDY
# A Spring Harvest/Afterwards

AFTERWARDS
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Daly, John

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​DALY. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Daly is fourth son of the late Joseph Morgan Daly, Esq., of Castle Daly, co. Westmeath, by Elizabeth, third daughter of Robt. Tigre, Esq., of South Hill; brother of Capt. Robt. Daly, 14th Infantry, and of Henry Daly, Esq., an officer in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service; and nephew of Rear-Admiral C. F. Daly.
This officer entered the Navy 20 May, 1824. While Mate of the Calliope 26, Capt. Thos. Herbert, he served in her boats under Lieut. Rundle Burges Watson in an impressive attack upon 13 Chinese war-junks, near Chuenpee, 7 Jan. 1841 – was on shore at the storming, 27 Feb., of the enemy’s works close to Whampoa Reach, where 54 pieces of cannon were taken – assisted in the boats at the capture of several rafts and of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton, 13 March – served with the western division of boats at the capture of that city on 18 March – and, during the second series of hostilities against it, was again in the boats at the destruction, 26 May, of the whole of the defences, extending about two miles from the British factory. Having been promoted on 6 of the latter month, and appointed to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, he next, in command of that ship’s launch, assisted at the reduction of Chinghae, 10 Oct. following. Mr. Daly’s subsequent appointments were, 20 Jan. 1842, and 12 March, 1845, to the Pelican 16, and Melampus 42, Capts. Philip Justice and John Norman Campbell, on the East India and South American stations. He has not been on the list of the navy since the close of 1845. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1222, 1501, 1503, 1505, 2503.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 397.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dalyell, James

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​DALYELL. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
James Dalyell entered the Navy 6 Jan. 1814; passed his examination in 1820; served in the boats of the Tyne at the capture of a pirate in the West Indies in 1823; and was promoted, 6 Sept. 1826, to a Lieutenancy in the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, on the Jamaica station. He obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 14 July, 1838; served, from 21 July, 1841, until 1844, as First of the Champion 18, Capts. Rich. Byron and John Clavell, on the South American station; and, since ​23 Sept. 1845, has again been in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dalton, Richard Henry

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​DALTON. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Richard Henry Dalton entered the Navy 14 Sept. 1832; passed his examination 1 Feb. 1837; served for some time in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, and Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; obtained his commission 16 Feb. 1843; was appointed, 5 June following, to the Conway 26, Capts. Robt. Fair and Wm. Kelly, on the Cape station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1845; and, since 19 Dec. 1846, has been attached, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Ocean 80, Capt. David Price, guard-ship at Sheerness.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dance, William Townsend

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​DANCE. (Captain, 1834. f-p., 13; h-p., 28.)
William Townsend Dance entered the Navy, 16 May, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, with whom he continued to serve, as Master’s Mate of the Barfleur 98, and Ramillies 74, on the West India, Lisbon, and North American stations, until May, . He next became Acting-Lieutenant of the Orpheus 36, Capt. Hugh Pigot; and after commanding her boats at the capture and destruction of an American letter-of-marque of 8 guns, was officially promoted on 12 July in the same year. Mr. Dance, who subsequently accompanied Capt. Pigot into the Nymphe 38, and Diomede 50, rejoined Sir Thos. Hardy in the Ramillies in Dec. 1814, and remained in that ship, latterly under Capts. Thos. Boys and Chas. Ogle, until April, 1816. From 24 March, 1821, until promoted to the rank of Commander 23 Oct. 1823, he further served, a great part of the time as First-Lieutenant, in the Doris 42, Capts. Thos. Graham and Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon, on the Brazilian station; after which we find him in command, from 25 Nov. 1828, until paid off towards the close of 1832, of the Sulphur sloop, on particular service. Capt. Dance has, since the latter date, been on half-pay. His promotion to the rank he now holds took place 5 June, 1834. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.