A Brief Handbook of English Authors

Wilson, Horace Hayman. 1788–1860. Sanskrit scholar. Author Hist. Cashmere, translation of the Rig-Veda, etc.

Wilson, John, "Christopher North." 1785–1854. Poet and essayist. Author of the poems The Isle of Palms and The City of the Plague, of the stories Margaret Lyndsay and Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, and of the famous Noctes Ambrosianæ. His style could be tender and pathetic, but as a reviewer it was often coarse, prejudiced, and brutal. See Ferrier's edition, 12 vols. See Life, by Mrs. Gordon, 1862. Pub. Arm. Ca. Wid.

Wilson, Sir Thomas. 1523–1581. Author of The Art of Rhetoric, etc.

Wilson, Wm. 1801–1860. Scotch poet. See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland.

Winchelsea, Countess Anne. c. 1700–1720. Poet. Author of The Nocturnal Reverie, etc. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.

Wingate, David. 1828 – . Scotch poet. Author Annie Weir, etc. See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland.

Winkworth, Catherine. 1825–1878. Hymnologist. Editor Hymns of the Ages, Lyra Germanica, etc. Pub. Mac.

Winslow, Forbes Benignus. 1810–1874. Physician. Author Physic and Physicians, The Anatomy of Suicide, Lectures on Insanity, Obscure Diseases of the Brain, etc.

Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal. 1802–1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author works on religion, science, art, literature, etc.

Wither, George. 1588–1677. Poet. A voluminous writer, best known by his Shepherd's Resolution and The Steadfast Shepherd. Style forcible and original. See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.

Wolcott [wŏl´kȏt, or wŏŏl´kȏt], John, "Peter Pindar." 1738–1819. Poet. Author of numerous witty, satirical poems, as The Lousiad, Bozzy and Piozzi, and the Lyric Odes of Peter Pindar, many of which were in ridicule of George III.

Wolfe, Charles. 1791–1823. Irish poet. Author of the famous Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. See Godwin, Mrs. Mary.

Wood, Anthony. 1632–1695. Antiquary. Author Athenæ Oxonienses, etc. See Rawlinson's Life, 1811.

Wood, Mrs. Ellen [Price]. 1820 – . Novelist. Of her many novels, East Lynne is the most famous. Johnny Ludlow is one of her best books. Pub. Di. Pet.

Wood, Mrs. Henry. See Wood, Mrs. Ellen.

Wood, John George. 1827 – . Naturalist. Author Homes without Hands, Bible Animals, Common Objects of the Sea and Shore, etc. Pub. Cas. Har. Por. Rou.

Woodhouselee, Lord. See Tytler, A. F.

Woolner, Thomas. 1825 – . Sculptor and poet. Author My Beautiful Lady, etc. Style delicate and pure. Pub. Mac.

Worboise, Mrs. Emma Jane. 1825 – . Novelist. Author Helen Bury, Lights and Shadows of Christian Life, Thornycroft Hall, etc. Pub. Rou.

Wordsworth, Chas. 1806 – . Bp. St. Andrew's. Son to succeeding. Neph. to W. W. Author Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible, The Bible in the Authorized Version with Notes and Introduction, etc. Pub. Dut. Mac.

Wordsworth, Christopher. 1774–1846. Bro. to W. W. Author Eccl. Biography, etc.

Wordsworth, Christopher. 1807 – . Bp. Lincoln. Son to preceding. Author Hist. Church in Ireland, Memoirs Wm. Wordsworth, etc. Pub. Dut.

Wordsworth, Wm. 1770–1850. His poems number in all 485, including the long poems, The Excursion, Peter Bell, White Doe, and the Prelude. The best of his verse is contained in the Ode on Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Ode to Duty, Laodamia, The Cuckoo, Lucy, and a few of the Sonnets, some of which are nearly perfect of their kind. Much of his verse contains little of real interest, but his best is poetry of the very highest type. See Grosart's complete edition, 1875. See Lives, by Bp. Wordsworth, Phillips, and Paxton Hood; also, Myers's Wordsworth, in Eng. Men of Letters, Masson's Essays, and Shairp's Studies in Poetry. Pub. Hou. Mac. Por. Rou.

Worsley, Philip Stanhope. – 1866. Poet. Translator of the Iliad.

Wotton, Sir Henry. 1586–1639. Poet and miscellaneous writer. His most familiar poem is the one beginning, "How happy is he born and taught." See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.

Wotton, Wm. 1666–1726. Author of the Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, one of the original sources of the Boyle and Bentley controversy.

Wrangham, Francis. 1769–1843. Poet and translator from the classics.

Wraxall, Sir Fred'k Chas. Lascelles. 1828–1865. Novelist. Author Wild Oats, Camp Life, Memoirs Queen Hortense, etc.

Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel. 1751–1831. Historical writer. Author Memoirs Kings of France, Hist. France, Historical Memoirs of my own Time, etc.

Wright, Thomas. 1810 – . Archæologist. Author Domestic Manners in England in the Middle Ages, Wanderings of an Antiquary, Hist. of Caricature and the Grotesque, Womankind in Western Europe, etc. Pub. Apl.

Wright, Wm. Aldis. 1836 – . Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with Clark of the Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols., 1866, and of the Globe Shakespeare.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas. 1503–1542. Poet. Author of love lyrics, one of the finest being Forget not yet the Tried Intent. See Poems with Memoir, 1831. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1. Pub. Hou.

Wycherley [wĭtch-e̯r-lĭ], Wm. 1640–1715. Dramatist. The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer are the best of his plays, all of which are witty, sprightly, and immoral. See edition of 1831, with Congreve, Farquhar, and Vanbrugh. Pub. Ron.

Wyckliffe. See Wiclif, John.

Wynter, Andrew. 1819–1876. Miscellaneous writer. Author Our Social Bees, Curiosities of Civilization, Borderlands of Insanity, etc. Pub. Put.

Yates, Edmund Hodgson. 1831 – . Novelist. Author Black Sheep, The Yellow Flag, Kissing the Rod, Wrecked in Port, etc. Pub. Apl. Har. Rou.

Yonge [yŭng], Charles Duke. 1812 – . Historian. Author Hist. British Navy, Hist. Eng. Revolution of 1688, Hist. France Under the Bourbons, Three Centuries of Modern Hist., etc. Pub. Apl. Har.

Yonge, Charlotte Mary. 1823 – . Novelist. Cousin to C. D. Y. An industrious writer, of whose 50 vols. more than 30 are fictions. The Heir of Redclyffe is her most noted book; others are Heartsease, Hopes and Fears, and The Daisy Chain. Her work is all careful, well intentioned, and strongly High Church in character. Pub. Apl. Dut. Est. Har. Ho. Lip. Lo. Mac. Phi. Rob.

Youatt [yoo´a̯t], Wm. 1777–1847. Veterinary writer. Author of The Horse, Cattle, Sheep, The Pig, and other similar standard works. Pub. Ju. Lip. Por. Rou.

Young, Arthur. 1741–1820. Agricultural writer of note. Author Rural Economy, Six Months' Tour through North of England, etc. See Allibone's Dict. and Donaldson's Agricultural Biography.

Young, Edward. 1684–1765. Poet. Author Night Thoughts, etc. Style strained and affected. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3. Pub. Apl. Ca. Hou.

Young, Thomas. 1773–1829. Scientific writer of eminence. See Peacock's Life of.

Zouch, Richard. c. 1590–1660. A voluminous legal writer.

Zouch, Thomas. 1737–1815. Miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs Sir Philip Sidney, Izaak Walton, etc.

ADDENDA

Bain, Alexander. 1818 – . Philosopher. Author The Senses and the Intellect, The Emotions and the Will, Study of Character, Mental and Moral Science, Logic, Mind and Body, Education as a Science, Life of John Stuart Mill, etc. Pub. Apl. Ho.

Barnes, Wm. 1810 – . Poet and philologist. Author of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Grammar of the Dorset Dialect, etc. Pub. Rob.

Bastian, Henry Charlton. 1837 – . Physician. Author The Beginnings of Life, Evolution and the Origin of Life, Common Forms of Paralysis from Brain Disease, etc. Pub. Apl. Mac.

Blackburn, Henry. 1830 – . Traveler. Author Travelling in Spain, Normandy Picturesque, The Pyrenees, Artists and Arabs, Art in the Mountains, etc. Pub. Os.

Browning, Oscar. 1837 – . Littérateur. Author of Hist. Educational Theories. Modern England, 1820–1874, Modern France, 1815–1880, etc., and articles in Encyc. Brit. on Cæsar, Carthage, Dante, Goethe, etc. Pub. Har.

Buxton, Mrs. B. H. [Bee]. 1844 – . Dramatic novelist. Author of Jennie of the Prince's, Great Grenfell Gardens, Nell: on and off the Stage, From the Wings, etc. See the Biograph, Aug. 1880. Pub. Har. Rou.

Clark, Wm. George. 1821–1878. Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with Wm. Aldis Wright, of the Cambridge and Globe editions of Shakespeare.

Coleridge, Derwent. 1800–1883. Miscellaneous writer. Son to S. T. Coleridge. Author Scriptural Character of the English Church, Memoir of Hartley Coleridge, Life of Praed, etc.

Cook, Dutton. 1832–1883. Novelist and dramatic critic. Author of Young Mr. Nightingale, Art in England, The Book of the Play, etc.

Craik, Georgiana Marion. 1831 – . Novelist. Author of Faith Unwin's Ordeal, Mildred, Sylvia's Choice, Dorcas, Two Women, Winnifred's Wooing, Only a Butterfly, The Cousin from India, Anne Warwick, Miss Moore, etc. Pub. Har. Rou.

Crosland, Mrs. Camilla [Toulmin]. 1812 – . Miscellaneous writer. Author Hubert Freeth's Prosperity, The Island of the Rainbow, Hildred the Daughter, Stratagems, etc. Pub. Lip. Rou.

Crosland, Mrs. Newton. See Crosland, Mrs. Camilla.

Geikie, Alexander. 1835 – . Geologist. Author The Story of a Boulder, Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland, etc.

Harris, George. 1809 – . Philosophical writer. Author True Theory of Representation in a State, Theory of the Arts, Civilization as a Science, Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man, etc. See the Biograph, Aug. 1880. Pub. Apl.

Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara. – 1862. Novelist. Author Rumor, Counterparts, Almost a Heroine, and the famous musical romance Charles Auchester. See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1862.