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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Whish, William George Hyndham

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​WHISH. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 16; h-p., 23.)
William George Hyndham Whish entered the Navy, 27 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, successive flag-ship, in the Channel and Baltic, of Rear-Admirals Fras. Pickmore and Elias Harvey. In Feb. 1810 he removed to the Hussar 38, Capt. Alex. Skene, on the Guernsey station; he became Midshipman, in the following summer, of the Nymphe frigate, Capt. E. S. Clay, in the North Sea; and from Jan. 1811 until Sept. 1815, he was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Mediterranean, and again off Guernsey in the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower. In Oct. of the year last mentioned he was rated Master’s Mate of the Mutine sloop, Capt. Jas. Mould; in which vessel he sailed in 1816 with the expedition against Algiers. On the memorable 27 Aug. he was doing duty on board the Invincible battery-ship, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Howell Fleming. He returned to England with Lord Exmouth in the Queen Charlotte 100; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816; and was appointed next – 9 June, 1818, to the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth at Plymouth – and, 13 July, 1821, and 17 Aug. and 4 Dec. 1824, to the Bustard 10, Capts. Wm. Geo. Martin, Jas. Wigston, Edwin Ludlow Rich, and Rawdon Maclean, Serapis, Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson, and Dartmouth 42, Capt. Henry Dundas, all in the West Indies. On 11 Nov. 1825, he was promoted to the command, which he retained but for a short period, of the Beaver sloop. His last appointment was, 26 Jan. 1837, to the Gannet 16, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the early part of 1838. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Whish married, 2 June, 1828, Julia, second daughter of the late John Vivian, Esq., of Portland Place, London, and Claverton, co. Somerset, sister-in-law of Capt. Jas. Rattray, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wheatley, John

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​WHEATLEY. (Commander, 1832.)
John Wheatley was born 15 Nov. 1801.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Aug. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Duncan 74, Capt. Robt. Lambert. He served subsequently, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Royal Sovereign 100, Eurotas 38, Capts. Robt. Bloye and Jas. Lillicrap, ​Tigris 36, Capt. Robt. Henderson, and Liverpool 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier. In the ship last mentioned he accompanied, towards the close of 1819, an expedition sent to the Persian Gulf for the purpose of crushing a race of notorious pirates, whose head-quarters lay at Ras-al-Khyma, which place was in a short time destroyed and all the vessels lying in its vicinity burnt or sunk. After acting as Lieutenant in the Leander 50, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, Satellite 18, Capt. Mark John Currie, and Ganges 84, Capt. F. A. Collier, he was promoted, officially, 9 Jan. 1823. His succeeding appointments were – 8 Aug. 1823, 10 Aug. 1826, and 2 Aug. 1827, to the Alacrity 10, Capt. Chas. Philip Yorke, Camelion 10, Capts. Peter Richards and Chas. Cotton, and Zebra 18, Capts. C. Cotton, Brunswick Popham, and Edmund Wm. Gilbert, all in the Mediterranean – 2 Jan. 1830, as First-Lieutenant (a post he had filled on board the Zebra), to the North Star 28, Capt. Lord Wm. Paget, in the West Indies – and to the command, next, of the Manly 12. In the Alacrity, Camelion, and Zebra he assisted at the capture of several piratical vessels in the Archipelago. In April, 1826 (he belonged at the time to the Alacrity), he was severely burnt in the right hand by an explosion of gunpowder on board a pirate in the Dora Passage; and in Jan. 1828 he was present in the Zebra in an attack made by a squadron under the orders of Sir Thos. Staines upon a fort and vessels in the possession of the freebooters at Carabusa. He was in the same sloop at the turning back of the Turco-Egyptian fleet from Patras. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 5 Dec. 1332; and was employed as such in the Coast Guard from 4 July, 1839, until July, 1844. While on duty on the night of 27 Oct. 1842, his horse took fright, ran away with him, and fell, breaking and dislocating the wrist of the same hand which had been on a former occasion burnt.
Commander Wheatley married, in April, 1838, at Bruges, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Hoper, Esq., of Burlington Street, London.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wheeler, Thomas Pryor

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​WHEELER. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Thomas Pryor Wheeler entered the Navy 8 July, 1809; passed his examination in 1816; obtained his commission 26 May, 1826; served, from 1 Aug. following until 1830, in the Coast Blockade as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, from 18 April, 1831, until the commencement of 1834, filled an appointment in the Coast Guard. He has not been since employed.
He married, at Gosport, 9 Feb. 1832, Miss Smith.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Whichelo, George

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​WHICHELO. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
George Whichelo entered the Navy 16 June, 1807; passed his examination in 1814; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 May, 1825. He had charge of a station in the Coast Guard from 11 July, 1831, until the end of 1837; was employed at Chatham in the Poictiers 72, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, from 24 Aug. 1843 until Aug. 1846; and since 21 April, 1847, has been again employed in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wharton, Richard Hill

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​WHARTON. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Richard Hill Wharton is son of the late Retired Commander J. F. Wharton, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 6 May, 1826; and on 20 Oct. 1827 was present in the Genoa 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, at the battle of Navarin. He passed his examination 7 May, 1834; and, while serving at the Cape of Good Hope as Mate in the Arrow 10, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Robinson, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 Nov. 1841, and nominated Additional of the Southampton 50, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Durnford King on the same station, where he was transferred, in 1842, to the Winchester 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Josceline Percy. He was afterwards, from 12 April, 1843, until paid off at the close of 1847, employed as Second and First-Lieutenant in the Cormorant steam-sloop, of 300 horse-power, Capts. Geo. Thos. Gordon and Fred. Beauchamp Paget Seymour, on the South American station.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Whipple, Thomas Connell O’Donnell

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​WHIPPLE. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Thomas Connell O’Donnell Whipple was born 9 Sept. 1813.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 9 March, 1827, and embarked, 13 March, 1829, as a Volunteer, on board the Galatea 42, Capt. Chas. Napier, in which frigate he continued employed on particular service, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, until Jan. 1832. He served afterwards on the Home, West India, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 19 June, 1833), in the Nimrod 20, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, Savage 10, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Loney, Russell 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, Weazle 10, Lieut.-Commanders M‘Ilwaine and John Simpson, and Powerful 84, Capt. C. Napier. His conduct in the ship last mentioned in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre procured him a commission dated 4 Nov. 1840. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 15 Jan. 1841, again to the Powerful, Capts. Geo. Mansel and Michael Seymour, on the same station – 5 Feb. 1842, to the Agincourt 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, whence he invalided 27 Dec. following – 2 Feb. and 19 July, 1844, and 30 Jan. 1845, to the Camperdown 104, Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, flag-ships of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Durnford King at Sheerness – and 15 June, 1846, as Senior, to the Dido 18, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, with whom he returned to the East Indies. He came home and was paid off in the early part of 1849. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Whitaker, Thomas

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​WHITAKER. (Commander, 1840. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Whitaker entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Melpomène 38, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver; with whom, and with Capts. Wm. Lukin and Jas. Katon, he served in the Mars 74, from Nov. 1805 until made Lieutenant, 22 Dec. 1809, into the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers – the latter part of the time in the capacity of Master’s Mate. In the Melpomène he twice assisted at the bombardment of Havre-de-Grace, and cruized among the Western Islands. In the Mars he contributed, 28 July, 1806, to the capture, off the coast of France, after a chase of more than 150 miles, and in the presence of three other French frigates, of Le Rhin of 44 guns and 318 men. He was also present with a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood at the capture, off Rochefort, 25 Sept. following, of four heavy frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigdble 44, struck to the Mars; and, besides assisting at the siege of Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, was actively employed in affording protection to the Baltic trade. On one occasion, while skylarking in the cockpit, he had the misfortune, by a biscuit being thrown at him, to be deprived of the sight of an eye. During the period of his servitude in the Kent, which ship he left in Jan. 1813, he was stationed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, and shared, in 1812, in one or two slight skirmishes with the Toulon fleet. His last appointment was, in Sept. 1813, to the Queen 74, successive flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey and Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, under whom he was two years employed in the West Indies and again in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to the rank he now holds by a commission bearing date 13 June, 1815.
Commander Whitaker is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wheeler, John

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​WHEELER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 28.)
John Wheeler entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Neptune 98, commanded, at Portsmouth, by the late Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle. In the following month he joined in succession the Dreadnought and Barfleur 98’s, Capts. Wm. Lechmere and Joseph Sidney Yorke, the latter stationed in the Channel; where, and in the Baltic, Downs, Mediterranean, and South America, he served also, until July, 1815, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, Cherokee 10, Capt. Rich. Arthur, Lively 38, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, Ville de Paris 110 and Rodney and Milford 74’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Fremantle, Valiant 74, Capt. Zachary Mudge, Berwick 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, and Duncan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Poo Beresford. He was present, in the Milford, at the reduction, in 1813, of Fiumé, Rovigno, Piran, Capo d’Istria, and Trieste. On leaving the Duncan he took up a commission bearing date 25 Feb. 1815. He filled an appointment in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 50 and Ramillies 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, from 22 Sept. 1821 until, we believe, the close of 1825; and since then has been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Latimer, Hugh

​Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555).—Reformer and divine, s. of a Leicestershire yeoman, went to Camb. in 1500, and became Fellow of Clare Hall. Taking orders, he was at first a defender of the ancient faith, but convinced by the arguments of Bilney, embraced the reformed doctrines. He was called to appear before Wolsey, but dismissed on subscribing certain articles. His opposition to the Pope, and his support of the King's supremacy, brought him under the notice of Henry, and he was appointed chaplain to Anne Boleyn, and in 1535 Bishop of Worcester. For preaching in favour of the reformed doctrines he was twice imprisoned in the Tower, 1539 and 1546, and on the former occasion resigned his bishopric, which he declined to resume on the accession of Edward VI. On the accession of Mary he was with Ridley, Bishop of London, thrown into prison (1554), and on October 16, 1555, burned at Oxf. His words of encouragement to his fellow-martyr are well known, "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out." He holds his place in English literature by virtue of his sermons—especially that on The Ploughers—which, like himself, are outspoken, homely, and popular, with frequent touches of kindly humour.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Law, William

​Law, William (1686-1761).—Divine, s. of a grocer at Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, was ed. at Camb., and in 1727 became tutor to the f. of Edward Gibbon, the historian. About 1728 he pub. his best known book, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, a work which has had a profound influence upon the religious life of England, largely owing to the impression which it produced upon such minds as those of Dr. Johnson, the Wesleys, and others. In 1737 he became a student of the works of Jacob Bœhmen, the German mystic, and devoted himself largely to the exposition of his views. ​The theological position of L. was a complicated one, combining High Churchism, mysticism, and Puritanism: his writings are characterised by vigorous thought, keen logic, and a lucid and brilliant style, relieved by flashes of bright, and often sarcastic, humour. His work attacking Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1723) is perhaps that in which these qualities are best displayed in combination. He retired in 1740 to Kingscliffe, where he had founded a school for 14 girls.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lawrence, George Alfred

​Lawrence, George Alfred (1827-1876).—Novelist, was a barrister. He wrote several novels, of which one—Guy Livingstone (1857)—had great popularity. On the outbreak of the American Civil War he went to America with the intention of joining the Confederate Army, but was taken prisoner and only released on promising to return to England.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Layamon

​Layamon (fl. 1200).—Metrical historian, the s. of Leovenath. All that is known of him is gathered from his own writings. He was a priest at Ernley (now Areley Regis), Worcestershire. In his day the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace, in French, were the favourite reading of the educated, and "it came to him in mind" that he would tell the story of Brut in English verse. He set out in search of books and, founding his poem on the earlier writers, he added so much from his own knowledge of Welsh and West of England tradition that while Wace's poem consists of 15,000 lines, his extends to 32,000. Among the legends he gives are those of Locrine, Arthur, and Lear. The poem is in the old English unrhymed, alliterative verse, and "marks the revival of the English mind and spirit."
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick

​Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick (1784-1848).—Novelist and miscellaneous writer, s. of a Scottish baronet, wrote two novels, Lochandhu (1825), and The Wolf of Badenoch (1827), but is best known for his Account of the Great Floods in Morayshire in 1829. He also wrote Legendary Tales of the Highlands, and contributed to scientific journals and magazines.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

​Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (1814-1873).—Novelist, s. of a Dean of the Episcopal Church of Ireland, and grand-nephew of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, and became a contributor and ultimately proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine, in which many of his novels made their first appearance. Called to the Bar in 1839, he did not practise, and was first brought into notice by two ballads, Phaudrig Croohoore and_ Shamus O'Brien, which had extraordinary popularity. His novels, of which he wrote 12, include The Cock and Anchor (1845), Torlough O'Brien (1847), The House by the Churchyard (1863), Uncle Silas (perhaps the most popular) (1864), The Tenants of Malory (1867), In a Glass Darkly (1872), and Willing to Die (posthumously). They are generally distinguished by able construction, ingenuity of plot, and power in the presentation of the mysterious and supernatural. Among Irish novelists he is generally ranked next to Lever.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Layard, Sir Austin Henry

​Layard, Sir Austin Henry (1817-1894).—Explorer of Nineveh, b. at Paris, s. of a Ceylon civilian. After spending some years in the office of a London solicitor, he set out in search of employment in Ceylon, but passing through Western Asia, became interested in the work of excavating the remains of ancient cities. Many of his finds—human-headed bulls, etc.—were sent to the British Museum. Two books—Nineveh and its Remains (1848-49), and The Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853)—brought him fame, and on his return home he received many honours, including the freedom of the City of London, the degree of D.C.L. from Oxf., and the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen Univ. He entered Parliament, where he sat as a Liberal. He held the offices of Under-Foreign Sec. (1861-66), and Chief Commissioner of Works (1868-69), and was Ambassador to Spain 1869, and Constantinople 1877; and on his retirement in 1878 he was made G.C.B. He was a very successful excavator, and described his work brilliantly, but he was no great linguist, and most of the deciphering of the inscriptions was done by Sir H. Rawlinson. His last work was Early Adventures in Persia, etc., and he left an autobiography, pub. in 1903. He also wrote on Italian art.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lear, Edward

​Lear, Edward (1812-1888).—Artist and miscellaneous author, b. in London, and settled in Rome as a landscape painter. He was an indefatigable traveller, and wrote accounts, finely illustrated, of his journeys in Italy, Greece, and Corsica. His best ​known works are, however, his Book of Nonsense (1840) (full of wit and good sense), More Nonsense Rhymes (1871), and Laughable Lyrics (1876). L. had also a remarkable faculty for depicting birds.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

​Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (1838-1903).—Historian, the s. of a landed gentleman of Carlow, was b. near Dublin, and ed. at Cheltenham and Trinity Coll., Dublin. Originally intended for the Church, he devoted himself to a literary career. His first work of importance was Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland (1861) (essays on Swift, Flood, Grattan, and O'Connell). The study of Buckle's History of Civilisation to some extent determined the direction of his own writings, and resulted in the production of two important works, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (1865), and History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), both remarkable for learning, clearness, and impartiality. Both, however, gave rise to considerable controversy and criticism. His principal work is The History of England in the Eighteenth Century (1878-90). Characterised by the same sterling qualities as his preceding books, it deals with a subject more generally interesting, and has had a wide acceptance. His view of the American war, and the controversies which led to it, is more favourable to the English position than that of some earlier historians. Other works are Democracy and Liberty (1896), and The Map of Life (1899). Though of warm Irish sympathies, L. was strongly opposed to Home Rule. He sat in Parliament for his Univ. from 1895 until his death. He received many academical distinctions, and was a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, and one of the original members of the Order of Merit.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lee, Nathaniel

​Lee, Nathaniel (1653?-1692).—Dramatist, s. of a clergyman at Hatfield, was ed. at Westminster School and Camb. After leaving the Univ. he went to London, and joined the stage both as actor and author. He was taken up by Rochester and others of the same dissolute set, led a loose life, and drank himself into Bedlam, where he spent four years. After his recovery he lived mainly upon charity, and met his death from a fall under the effects of a carouse. His tragedies, which, with much bombast and frequent untrained flights of imagination, have occasional fire and tenderness, are generally based on classical subjects. The principal are The Rival Queens, Theodosius, and Mithridates. He also wrote a few comedies, and collaborated with Dryden in an adaptation of Œdipus, and in The Duke of Guise.
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# A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism/Part II

* Chapter I: The Electric Current
* Chapter II: Conduction and Resistance
* Chapter III: Electromotive Force between Bodies in Contact
* Chapter IV: Electrolysis
* Chapter V: Electrolytic Polarization
* Chapter VI: Mathematical Theory of the Distribution of Electric Currents
* Chapter VII: Conduction in Three Dimensions
* Chapter VIII: Resistance and Conductivity in Three Dimensions
* Chapter IX: Conduction through Heterogeneous Media
* Chapter X: Conduction in Dielectrics
* Chapter XI: Measurement of the Electric Resistance of Conductors
* Chapter XII: Electric Resistance of Substances
# A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism/Part I

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* Chapter I: Description of Phenomena
* Chapter II: Elementary Mathematical Theory of Electricity
* Chapter III: Systems of Conductors
* Chapter IV: General Theorems
* Chapter V: Mechanical Action between Electrified Bodies
* Chapter VI: Points and Lines of Equilibrium
* Chapter VII: Forms of Equipotential Surfaces and Lines of Flow
* Chapter VIII: Simple Cases of Electrification
* Chapter IX: Spherical Harmonics
* Chapter X: Confocal Surfaces of the Second Degree
* Chapter XI: Theory of Electric Images
* Chapter XII: Conjugate Functions in Two Dimensions
* Chapter XIII: Electrostatic Instruments
# A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism/Part III

* Chapter I: Elementary Theory of Magnetism
* Chapter II: Magnetic Force and Magnetic Induction
* Chapter III: Magnetic Solenoids and Shells
* Chapter IV: Induced Magnetization
* Chapter V: Particular Problems in Magnetic Induction
* Chapter VI: Weber's Theory of Induced Magnetism
* Chapter VII: Magnetic Measurements
* Chapter VIII: On Terrestrial Magnetism
# A Pair of Silk Stockings

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* A Pair of Silk Stockings, a short story by Kate Chopin
* A Pair of Silk Stockings, a short story by Sabine Baring-Gould
# A Pagan Reverie

Tell me, Mother Nature! tender yet stern mother!
* "A Pagan Reverie" in The New Penelope (1877)
* "A Pagan Reverie" in Poems (1900)
# A Painter's Courtship

As serialized in Once a Week.
* Part 1
* Part 2