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articles on Shakespearean questions, which were printed in The Gentleman's Magazine. In 1884, he published a book about Stratford-upon-Avon, with illustrations...

Harrison, in January 2000. The new dictionary, now known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (or ODNB), was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes...

settled in London and became a journalist, eventually editing The Cornhill Magazine in 1871 where R. L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, W. E. Norris, Henry James...

Genoa to allow him to return to England. Jim Aulich, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, wrote of Leete that "His prolific output was characterized...

for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Steane was born in Coventry, the son of William John...

BBC. The copyright was lodged in 1936. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, British cabaret singer Jean Ross, with whom Maschwitz...

Music Reference Series, and is a musical consultant on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is also an obituarist for The Guardian, The Independent...

music, fiction and drama. He is also a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Guinness Rockopaedia, and has produced articles on...

Light". Her real name was Mary Bumpus, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Frances Allitsen was born in London, and as a child...

and placards. In 2006 his biography was included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Green was born in Harringay, north London, the youngest...

000 gallons a day during the Crimean War. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grant's other inventions included "a naval fuel (briquettes...

Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23), "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press...

S2CID 129250209. Torrens, H. S. (2004). "Farey, John (1766–1826)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)...

Martha S. Vogeler, "Harrison, Austin Frederic", in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 25, p....

Ambit Magazine". Jgballard.ca. Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2015. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford...

according to the author Morton N. Cohen, writing for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, much of Rider Haggard's reputation rests on these two...

work The Fate of Fenella. She died in 1919. In 2023 the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography included her, Mrs. Disney Leith, Florence L. Barclay...

Smithfield, by the St Katherine Docks and, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "the young Jacobs spent much time on Thames-side, growing...

provide a unique insight into 18th-century English life. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography refers to him as "an eighteenth-century squire". He was...

College of Science, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was born in Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of the...