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Not identified. The writer's contribution is the account of a girl's school days—now long past—spent at a small and very genteel establishment in Russell Square. Various of the details recorded suggest that the account may be autobiographical. Payment for the contribution made by cheque.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Not identified. Payment made by postoffice order.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Not identified. Perhaps one of the Keenes listed elsewhere. In the Office Book, "Miss Berwick" is recorded as author of "The Leaf"; the name is marked out and substituted by "Mr. Keene". Payment for the contribution marked "Enclosed".

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Address: 7 Kingsmead St., Bath. At the Kingsmead St. address, John and James Keene printed and published Keenes' Bath Journal (founded 1744), of which they were the proprietors. The Keenes also did commercial printing and sold patent medicines. Payment for if "A Golden Newspaper" made in cash "to Mr. Keene".

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Not identified. Various comments in "Animal Mechanics" seem to imply that the contributor was or had been a member of a mechanics' institution. He refers, for instance, to experiments that can be made with simple apparatus; science lectures in mechanics' institutions were frequently accompanied by experiments and demonstrations. He explains certain principles of physics as stated in Charles Bell's Animal Mechanics; Animal Mechanics was among the books published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge—an organization that brought out books with the needs of mechanics' institutions in mind.

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Daughter of noted actress Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893). Author of Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation since the War (1883).

Various Kennedys who wrote verse flourished in the mid-century. At least two held the title "Dr." : Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D. (1804-1889), and Richard Hartley Kennedy, M.D. (d. 1865). Benjamin Hall Kennedy, classical scholar, contributed some verses to the charity publication Christmas Comfits; no record of his contributing verse to general periodicals. Richard Hartley Kennedy (Boase), medical officer with British army in India, 1811-43; alderman, City of London, 1853-58; contributed verse to the Bijou, 1829, designating himself "R. H. Kennedy, M.D."; designated himself "M. D." on title pages of two of his poetical works, Visconti, 1829, and The Relicquary [sic], 1835. Contributed to a London periodical the material that he later published in book form as The Sutti, 1855. Seems the most likely Kennedy to have been the H.W. contributor.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Journalist and author. Educated at St. Mary's College, Oscott. Admitted at Middle Temple; called to the bar, 1859, but did not practise law. Editor of the Sun, 1845-1871; of Weekly Register and Catholic Standard, 1874-1881. Contributed to New Monthly, Westminster Review, Blackwood's, and other periodicals. Published collections of his political sketches written for the Sun; two volumes of poems and a collected edition; also other works. Edited a volume of selections from Leigh Hunt, the miscellaneous writings of Bulwer-Lytton, and the works of Burns, Moore, and other authors. In 1887 granted Civil List pension of £100 a year "In recognition of the value of his contributions to biographical and other literature" (Colles, Literature and the Pension List).

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Not identified. Keys's name appears three times in the Office Book, in each instance as the second among the writers' names attached to an article. The position suggests that Keys worked as reviser of the articles.

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Miscellaneous writer. Resident in Sheffield. Among writers named King who published verse in the mid-century, the writer resident in Sheffield was John William King. King began life as an artisan, composing his first printed verses after "the busy labours of the toilsome day" ("Preface", The Emigrant). Listed in Sheffield directories as type caster, 1849; news-agent and stationer, 1852; bookseller and stationer, 1856. Does not appear in later Sheffield directories. In 1848, brought out by subscription The Emigrant, and Other Poems, printed in Sheffield "for the author" (2nd ed., London, 1850, re-titled Lays of a Struggling Heart); also had printed or published in Sheffield Tales for the Christmas Hearth, 1851; a sketch of Ebenezer Elliott, and a brief life of Gavazzi. His Memoir, 1858, of his friend James Montgomery of Sheffield records on title page both London and Sheffield publication. His other writings had London publishers: The Patriot: A Poem, dedicated to Mazzini; Ernest, The Pilgrim: A Dramatic Poem, dedicated to "my valued friend and instructor, Alessandro Gavazzi"; Characters and Incidents, an account of travels in England and Wales; Continental Europe from 1792-1859, and a continuation of the same in The War in Italy.

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Not identified. The contributor is a well-educated woman; various literary and classical allusions appear in her two H.W. stories, and also a quotation in Latin and one in Greek. Payment for each of the contributions made by cheque.

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Author and publisher. Received few years' schooling, but gained knowledge of books through apprenticeship to his father, a bookseller and printer. As publisher on his own behalf and as superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, brought out numerous serials and compilations of information, instruction, and diversion, designed to make good reading cheaply available to the masses, e.g., Knight's Quarterly Magazine, the British Almanac, the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, the Penny Magazine, the Penny Cyclopaedia, Knight's Store of Knowledge for All Readers, the series titled Knight's Weekly Volume, and Half-Hours with the Best Authors. Wrote much in these publications. His separately published writings included verse, books on labour and industry, a history of England, a biography of Shakespeare. Brought out an edition of Shakespeare's works. Contributed occasionally to periodicals with which he was connected neither as editor nor as publisher, e.g., Once a Week.

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Not identified. The contributor listed jointly with Murray as author of "The Crown of lonia"—an article on Smyrna—cannot be Charles Knight (below). Neither the subject nor the association with Murray is appropriate to Charles Knight. Nor is the appearance of the article in H.W. Vol. XII appropriate. Charles Knight stated (Passages of a Working Life, Ill, 113) that his contributions were "to the two first volumes" of the periodical (actually, they were to the first five).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Writer. Government official in India. Born in Dublin. According to  Frederic Boase, Modern English  Biography (1892-1921), Knighton was educated at University of Glasgow, may have been, but details of education (also certain other details) inaccurate in Boase. Obtained Ph.D. from Giessen University, 1851 (information from Justus Liebig-Universität), but did not style himself "Ph.D." on title pages of his books: (On Englishmen's obtaining Ph.D.'s from Giessen and other German universities, see the H.W. articles "Doctor of Philosophy" and "Twenty Guinea Diplomas"). Styled himself "M.A." for the first time on title page of Forest Life in Ceylon, 1854; on title pages of books' published in the "1860s and thereafter, styled himself "L.L.D".

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Edinburgh publisher of the firm Sutherland & Knox. Contributed to Tait's; was for three years Scottish editor of Daily News; founded and edited the Torch (Edinburgh), 1846 (January-May).

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Author. Educated at Rugby and at Oxford; did not take degree. Published his first volume of poems in 1795 and his last, Heroic Idyls, in year before his death; two volumes of Imaginary Conversations, 1824, followed by additional volumes in later years. Contributed to the annuals Book of Beauty and Keepsake, and to many periodicals, e.g., Athenaeum, Monthly Repository, Examiner, Foreign Quarterly Review, Blackwood's, Leigh Hunt's Journal.

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Barrister, journalist, novelist. Born in Parramatta, New South Wales. Student at Sydney College; matriculated at Cambridge, 1838. Admitted at Middle Temple, 1838; called to the bar, 1841. Returned to Sydney. In 1842 went to India, where for the most part he lived thereafter, though he spent some time on the Continent (The Forger's Wife is dated from Vienna) and in England. Practised as barrister; according to Vizetelly (Glances Back through Seventy Years, II, 8-9), his success in pleading the suit of "some millionaire begum" against East India Co. brought him munificent recompense and spread his fame among native princes. In 1845 established the Mofussilite at Meerut; later, for a short time edited the Optimist in Calcutta. Died in Mussoorie, having ruined his health (according to Vizetelly) by yielding to "insatiable craving for champagne". Contributed to Fraser's and Welcome Guest. Author of Wanderings in India, 1859, and ten works of fiction (or semi-fiction). His Anglo-Indian novels include The Wetherbys and Too Clever by Half, both published 1853. His writings connected with Australia were based on actual persons and incidents, usually with names disguised: The Forger's Wife, 1855; Botany Bay, 1859. Among his books with neither India nor Australia as setting was The Secret Police; or, Plot and Passion, 1859. Stated that he was joint author with Tom TayIor of the play Plot and Passion and that that play was dramatized from The Secret Police; Taylor denied both statements (Athenaeum, May 13, May 27, 1871). Some of Lang's books were very popular. Too Clever by Half went through twelve editions by 1878. Botany Bay (below) was frequently reprinted; one London edition was titled Clever Criminals; others were titled Remarkable Convicts; a Melbourne edition (reprinting only ten of the thirteen stories that constitute the book) was titled Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories of the Early Days of Australia.

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Author. Reviewed historical works for Athenaeum. Listed in Wellesley Index as the probable author of "The Anglo-Norman Trouveres", Blackwood's, 1836. Was obviously the "Miss Lawrence" whose name was announced in an advertisement as one of contributors to Hood's Magazine (Memorials of Thomas Hood, II, 185). Author of Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England, from the Commencement of the Twelfth Century, 1838-40, and of The History of Woman in England, and Her Influence on Society and Literature, 1843. Would seem to be author also of London in the Olden Time; or, Tales Intended to Illustrate the Manners and Superstitions of Its Inhabitants, from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century, 1825-27, anon. (attributed in HaIkett and Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature (1926-1934) to "Miss H. Laurence"). Surmised by Elizabeth Barrett to be a "deeper-minded woman" than Agnes Strickland "and qualified to take, in literature, the higher place" (Letters ... to Richard Hengist Horne, I, 210).

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Not identified. Payment for the first contribution marked "Enclosed & fetched"; for the second, "Enclosed".

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Irish writer, best known for his Gothic tales and ghost stories.