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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Cranmer, Thomas

​Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556).—Theologian and Churchman, b. at Aslacton, Notts, ed. at Camb., and became an eminent classical and biblical scholar. He supported Henry VIII. in his divorce proceedings against Queen Catherine, gained the King's favour, and obtained rapid preferment, ending with the Primacy. He was one of the chief promoters of the Reformation in England. On the accession of Mary, he was committed to the Tower, and after a temporary failure of courage and constancy, suffered martyrdom at the stake. It is largely to C. that we owe the stately forms of the Book of Common Prayer. He also wrote over 40 works, and composed several hymns; but the influence of the Prayer-book in fixing the language is his great, though indirect, service to our literature.
Fox's Book of Martyrs, Strype's Memorials of Cranmer, Hook's Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd

​Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd (1812-1878).—Historian, ed. at Eton and Camb., and called to the Bar in 1837, he became in 1840 Prof. of History, London Univ., and in 1860 Chief Justice of Ceylon, when he was knighted. His best known contribution to literature's his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1852). Other works are Historical and Critical Account of the Several Invasions of England (1852), History of the Ottoman Turks, and Imperial and Colonial Institutions of the British Empire (1872).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Creighton, Mandell

​Creighton, Mandell (1843-1901).—Churchman and historian, b. at Carlisle, and ed. at Durham Grammar School and Merton Coll., Oxf., he took orders, and was presented to the living of Embleton, Northumberland, in 1875, where, in addition to zealous discharge of pastoral duties, he pursued the historical studies on the ​results of which his reputation chiefly rests. In 1882 the first two vols. of his History of the Papacy appeared, followed by two more in 1887, and a fifth in 1894. In 1884 he was appointed first Dixie Prof. of Ecclesiastical History at Camb. He ed. the English Historical Review (1886-91). In 1891, after having held canonries at Worcester and Windsor, he became Bishop of Peterborough, from which he was in 1897 translated to London. His duties as Bishop of London made the completion of his great historical work an impossibility. He wrote in addition to it various text-books on history, a life of Queen Elizabeth, a memoir of Sir George Grey, and many articles and reviews. He was recognised as a leading authority on the department of history to which he had specially devoted himself, and he made his mark as a Churchman.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Coxe, William

​Coxe, William (1747-1828).—Historian, was b. in London, and ed. at Eton and Camb. As tutor to various young men of family he travelled much on the Continent, and pub. accounts of his journeys. His chief historical work is his Memoirs of the House of Austria (1807), and he also wrote lives of Walpole, Marlborough, and others. He had access to valuable original sources, and his books, though somewhat heavy, are on the whole trustworthy, notwithstanding a decided Whig bias. He was a clergyman, and d. Archdeacon of Wilts.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Crawford, Francis Marion

​Crawford, Francis Marion (1854-1909).—Novelist and historian, s. of Thomas C., an American sculptor, b. at Bagni di Lucca, Italy, and ed. in America, at Camb., and in Germany, he went to India and ed. The Indian Herald (1879-80). Thereafter he settled in Italy, living chiefly at Sorrento, and becoming a Roman Catholic. His principal historical works are Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), The Rulers of the South (reprinted as Sicily, Calabria, and Malta, 1904), and Venetian Gleanings (1905), but his reputation rests mainly on his novels, of which he wrote between 30 and 40, the best known of which are perhaps Mr. Isaacs (1882), Dr. Claudius (1883), A Roman Singer (1884), Marzio's Crucifix (1887), Saracinesca (1887), A Cigarette-maker's Romance (1890), generally considered his masterpiece, Don Orsino (1892), Pietro Ghisleri (1893), and The Heart of Rome (1903). His one play is Francesca da Rimini. His novels are all interesting, and written in a style of decided distinction. His historical works, though full of information, lack spirit.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thompson (John), the elder

​THOMPSON (JOHN), the elder, bookseller in London, 1641. Mentioned in a list of stationers who had paid their proportion of the poll tax in 1641. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483 (11).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thompson (Nathaniel)

​THOMPSON (NATHANIEL), printer in Dublin, 1666. Printed an edition of T. Bladen's Praxis Francisci Clarke, 1666. [Ames Collection, 3272.] Some interesting notes about him at a later period will be found in the Hist. MSS. Comm. Report 9, app., pp. 69-79.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thompson (Thomas)

​THOMPSON (THOMAS), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. Took up his freedom July 6th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.] His name is found on the imprint to several political pamphlets in 1642. [Hazlitt, 207, 525.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thorpe (William)

​THORPE (WILLIAM), bookseller in Chester, (1) Hand and Bible near the High Crosse; (2) Stationer's Arms in Watergate Street, 1664. A fragment in the Ames Collection (473 h 1, 121) is a portion of an engraved sheet. At the top are three shields, one of them bearing the arms of the Stationers' Company. Between the two uppermost is the date 1664. Below them is a Bible and Hand and the letters W. T., and beneath this the imprint:— "Printed for William Thorpp Bookseller in the City of Chester, and are to be sould by him there, at his shop at the hand and Bible neere the high Crosse, and at the Stationers Armes in the Watergate Street, where alsoe Books both new and old are to bee bound and sold."
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thompson (Samuel)

​THOMPSON (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, (1) White Horse, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Bishop's Head in Duck Lane, 1664—8. Shared with Humphrey Robinson, q.v., Richard Thrale, q.v., and Joshua Kirton, q.v., the copyrights of Thomas Whitaker, numbering 109 works. His death is thus recorded by Smyth in his Obituary p. 79, "Oct$^r$. 26th, 1668. Die Lunæ hora 12 sub nocte, Sam Thompson, bookseller in Duck Lane obit, a good husband and industrious man in his profession." In his will, which was proved on November 9th, 1668, he refers to his late losses in the fireing of London, and to the doubtful value of his stock. His son John was a student at Oxford, and Samuel Gellibrand, q.v., was appointed sole executor. [P.C.C. 146, Hene.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thornicroft, or Thornycroft (Thomas)

​THORNICROFT, or THORNYCROFT (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) Eagle and Child, St. Paul's Churchyard; (3) Eagle and Child, near Worcester House in the Strand. 1663-7. His second address is found in Paul Festeau's New and easie French Grammar, 1667. [Eman. Coll. Camb.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thrale (James)

​THRALE (JAMES), bookseller in London, (1) Cross Keys, Pauls Gate; (2) Under St. Martin's Outwich Church in Bishopsgate Street, 1661-7. In partnership with Richard Thrale, q.v.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thorn (Edmund)

​THORN (EDMUND), bookseller in Oxford, 1652-63. Publisher of Clement Barksdale's Noctes Hibernæ, 1652.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thompson or Thomason (John), the younger

​THOMPSON or THOMASON (JOHN), (?) the younger, bookseller (?) in London, 1660. Proceedings, Votes, Resolves and Acts of the late half quarter Parliament, called the Rump, 1660. [Hazlitt, ii. 525.] His address has not been found.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Thrale (Richard)

​THRALE (RICHARD), bookseller in London, (1) Cross Keys at Paul's Gate, 1650; (2) Cross-Keyes and Dolphin in Aldersgate Street, over against the Half Moon tavern, 1667. Took up his freedom August 6th, 1623 [Arber, iii. 685.] Master of the Stationers' Company in 1664. On March 7th, 1652, in company with Humphrey Robinson, Joshua Kirton, and Samuel Thompson, he took over the copyrights of Thomas Whitaker. This assignment fills four pages of the register, and numbers 109 books. After the fire he moved into Aldersgate Street, where he published an account of the calamity.
# A Marriage Contract

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Original French title: "Le Contrat de Mariage". First published 1835. Included as part of La Comédie humaine.
          To Rossini.
* Chapter I: PRO AND CON
* Chapter II: THE PINK OF FASHION
* Chapter III: THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT—FIRST DAY
* Chapter IV: THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT—SECOND DAY
* Chapter V: THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT—THIRD DAY
* Chapter VI: CONCLUSION
* Addendum
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Marriage Contract/Addendum

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Casa-Real, Duc de
    The Quest of the Absolute
Claes, Josephine de Temninck, Madame
    The Quest of the Absolute
Magus, Elie
    The Vendetta
    A Bachelor's Establishment
    Pierre Grassou
    Cousin Pons
Manerville, Paul Francois-Joseph, Comte de
    The Thirteen
    The Ball at Sceaux
    Lost Illusions
    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Manerville, Comtesse Paul de
    The Lily of the Valley
    A Daughter of Eve
Marsay, Henri de
    The Thirteen
    The Unconscious Humorists
    Another Study of Woman
    The Lily of the Valley
    Father Goriot
    Jealousies of a Country Town
    Ursule Mirouet
    Lost Illusions
    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Letters of Two Brides
    The Ball at Sceaux
    Modeste Mignon
    The Secrets of a Princess
    The Gondreville Mystery
    A Daughter of Eve
Maulincour, Baronne de
    The Thirteen
Stevens, Dinah
    Cousin Pons
Vandenesse, Comte Felix de
    The Lily of the Valley
    Lost Illusions
    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
    Cesar Birotteau
    Letters of Two Brides
    A Start in Life
    The Secrets of a Princess
    Another Study of Woman
    The Gondreville Mystery
    A Daughter of Eve
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Gray, David

​Gray, David (1838-1861).—Poet, s. of a hand-loom weaver at Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire. He gave early promise at school, was destined for the service of the Church, and was for 4 years at Glasgow Univ. while he maintained himself by teaching. His first poems appeared in the Glasgow Citizen. In 1860, however, he went with his friend Robert Buchanan to London, where he soon fell into consumption. He was befriended by Mr. Monckton Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton, but after a sojourn in the South of England, returned home to die. His chief poem, The Luggie (the river of his birthplace) contains much beautiful description; but his genius reached its highest expression in a series of 30 sonnets written in full view of an early death and blighted hopes, and bearing the title, In the Shadow. They breathe a spirit of the deepest, melancholy unrelieved by hope.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Gray, Thomas

​Gray, Thomas (1716-1771).—Poet, was b. in London, the s. of a scrivener, who, though described as "a respectable citizen," was of so cruel and violent a temper that his wife had to separate from him. To his mother and her sister, who carried on a business, G. was indebted for his liberal education at Eton (where he became a friend of Horace Walpole), and Camb. After completing his Univ. course he accompanied Walpole to France and Italy, where he spent over two years, when a difference arising G. returned to England, and went back to Camb. to take his degree in law without, however, any intention of practising. He remained at Camb. for the rest of his life, passing his time in the study of the classics, natural science, and antiquities, and in visits to his friends, of whom Walpole was again one. It was in 1747 that his first poem, the ​Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, appeared, and it was followed between 1750 and 1757 by his Pindaric Odes, including The Progress of Poesy, and The Bard, which were, however, somewhat coldly received. Nevertheless he had, on the death of Colley Cibber, the offer of the laureateship, which he declined; but in 1768 he accepted the Professorship of Modern History in his Univ., worth £400 a year. Having been drawn to the study of Icelandic and Celtic poetry he produced The Fatal Sisters, and The Descent of Odin, in which are apparent the first streaks of the dawn of the Romantic Revival. G.'s poems occupy little space, but what he wrote he brought to the highest perfection of which he was capable, and although there is a tendency on the part of some modern critics to depreciate him, it is probable that his place will always remain high among all but the first order of poets. Probably no poem has had a wider acceptance among all classes of readers than his Elegy in a Country Churchyard. In addition to his fame as a poet, he enjoys that of one of the greatest of English letter-writers, and of a really great scholar. He d. at Camb. after a short illness following upon a gradually declining state of health.
Life by Gosse (Men of Letters Series, 1882).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Greene, Robert

​Greene, Robert (1560?-1592).—Poet, dramatist, and pamphleteer, was b. at Norwich, and studied at Camb., where he grad. A.B. He was also incorporated at Oxf. in 1588. After travelling in Spain and Italy, he returned to Camb. and took A.M. Settling in London he was one of the wild and brilliant crew who passed their lives in fitful alternations of literary production and dissipation, and were the creators of the English drama. He has left an account of his career in which he calls himself "the mirror of mischief." During his short life about town, in the course of which he ran through his wife's fortune, and deserted her soon after the birth of her first child, he poured forth tales, plays, and poems, which had great popularity. In the tales, or pamphlets as they were then called, he turns to account his wide knowledge of city vices. His plays, including The Scottish History of James IV. and Orlando Furioso, which are now little read, contain some fine poetry among a good deal of bombast; but his fame rests, perhaps, chiefly on the poems scattered through his writings, which are full of grace and tenderness. G. d. from the effects of a surfeit of pickled herrings and Rheinish wine. His extant writings are much less gross than those of many of his contemporaries, and he seems to have given signs of repentance on his deathbed, as is evidenced by his last work, A Groat's-worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance. In this curious work occurs his famous reference to Shakespeare as "an upstart crow beautified with our feathers." Among his other works may be mentioned Euphues' censure to Philautus, Pandosto, the Triumph of Time (1588), from which Shakespeare borrowed the plot of The Winter's Tale, A Notable Discovery of Coosnage, Arbasto, King of Denmark, Penelope's Web, Menaphon (1589), and Coney Catching. His plays, all pub. ​posthumously, include Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Alphonsus, King of Aragon, and George-a-Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield. His tales are written under the influence of Lyly, whence he received from Gabriel Harvey the nickname of "Euphues' Ape."
Plays ed. by Dyce (2 vols., 1831, new ed., 1861). His works are included in Grosart's "Huth Library."
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Greeley, Horace

​Greeley, Horace (1811-1872).—Journalist and miscellaneous writer, was the s. of a small farmer in New Hampshire. His early life was passed first as a printer, and thereafter in editorial work. He started in 1841, and conducted until his death, the New York Tribune. He was long a leader in American politics, and in 1872 was an unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency. His writings, which are chiefly political and economical, include Essays on Political Economy (1870), and Recollections of a Busy Life (1868).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Green, Matthew

​Green, Matthew (1696-1737).—Poet, is known as the author of The Spleen, a lively and original poem in octosyllabic verse on the subject of low spirits and the best means of prevention and cure. It has life-like descriptions, sprightliness, and lightness of touch, and was admired by Pope and Gray. The poem owes its name to the use of the term in the author's day to denote depression. G., who held an appointment in the Customs, appears to have been a quiet, inoffensive person, an entertaining companion, and a Quaker.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grattan, Thomas Colley

​Grattan, Thomas Colley (1792-1864).—Miscellaneous writer, b. in Dublin, and ed. for the law, but did not practise. He wrote a few novels, including The Heiress of Bruges (4 vols., 1830); but his best work was Highways and Byways, a description of his Continental wanderings, of which he pub. three series. He also wrote a history of the Netherlands and books on America. He was for some time British Consul at Boston, U.S.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grant, James Augustus

​Grant, James Augustus (1827-1892).—Traveller, was an officer in the army, and was sent by the Royal Geographical Society along with Captain John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), to search for the equatorial lakes of Africa. Grant wrote A Walk across Africa, The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition, and Khartoum as I saw it in 1863. Speke wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863), and What led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1864).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grant, Mrs. Anne

​Grant, Mrs. Anne (M' Vicar) (1755-1838).—Was b. in Glasgow, and in 1779 m. the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Inverness-shire. She pub. in 1802 a vol. of poems. She also wrote Letters from the Mountains, and Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands. After 1810 she lived in Edin., where she was the friend of Sir W. Scott and other eminent men, through whose influence a pension of £100 was bestowed upon her.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Green, John Richard

​Green, John Richard (1837-1883). Historian, was the s. of a tradesman in Oxf., where he was ed., first at Magdalen Coll. School, and then at Jesus Coll. He entered the Church, and served various cures in London, under a constant strain caused by delicate health. Always an enthusiastic student of history, his scanty leisure was devoted to research. In 1869 he finally gave up clerical work, and received the appointment of librarian at Lambeth. He had been laying plans for various historical works, including a History of the English Church as exhibited in a series of Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, and, what he proposed as his magnum opus, A History of England under the Angevin Kings. The discovery, however, that his lungs were affected, necessitated the abridgment of all his schemes, and he concentrated his energies on the preparation of his Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers. In 1877 he m. Miss Alice Stopford, by whose talents and devotion he was greatly assisted in carrying out and completing such work as his broken health enabled him to undertake during his few remaining years. Abandoning his proposed history of the Angevins, he confined himself to expanding his Short History into A History of the English People in 4 vols. (1878-80), and writing The Making of England, of which one vol. only, coming down to 828, had appeared when he d. at Mentone in March 1883. After his death appeared The Conquest of England. The Short ​History may be said to have begun a new epoch in the writing of history, making the social, industrial, and moral progress of the people its main theme. To infinite care in the gathering and sifting of his material G. added a style of wonderful charm, and an historical imagination which has hardly been equalled.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Green, Thomas Hill

​Green, Thomas Hill (1836-1882).—Philosopher, was b. at Birken Rectory, Yorkshire, and ed. at Rugby and Balliol Coll., Oxf., where he became Whyte Prof. of Moral Philosophy and, by his character, ability, and enthusiasm on social questions, exercised a powerful influence. His chief works are an Introduction to Hume's Treatise on Human Nature (Clarendon Press ed.), in which he criticised H.'s philosophy severely from the idealist standpoint, and Prolegomena to Ethics, pub. posthumously.
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