A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
Cousin John William
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There is a_coll. _ ed. Of his works, the "Winterslow, " by A. R. Waller and A. Glover, 12 vols. , with introduction by W. E. Henley, etc. HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND (1793-1875). --Traveller, essayist, and biographer, served in the Engineers, went to South America as manager of a miningcompany, which failed, and then turned to literature, and madeconsiderable reputation by a book of travels, _Rapid Journeys across thePampas and among the Andes_ (1827), which was followed by _Bubbles fromthe Brunnens... of Nassau_ (1834). He was Governor of Upper Canada 1835-37, but was not a great success. Thereafter he contributed to the _QuarterlyReview_, and _repub. _ his articles as _Stokers and Pokers--Highways andByways_, and wrote a _Life of Bruce_, the Abyssinian traveller. He wasmade a Baronet in 1836. HEARN, LAFCADIO (1850-1906). --Journalist and writer on Japan, _s. _ of anIrish Army surgeon and of a Greek lady, _b. _ in Leucadia, IonianIslands, lost his parents early, and was sent home to be taken charge ofby an aunt in Wales, a Roman Catholic.
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