A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 25

=Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke.= 181 Archaeological writer of note. Bro. to G. H. R.

=Ray, John.= 1628-1705. Naturalist. Author of the Historia Plantarum, etc. _See Life, by Wm. Derham, 1760._

=Reach, Angus Bethune.= 1821-1856. Novelist and miscellaneous writer.

Author of Leonard Lindsay, The Natural Hist. of Bores and Humbugs, The Comic Bradshaw, etc. _See Chas. Mackay's Recollections._ _Pub. Rou._

=Reade, Charles.= 181 Novelist. A writer of strong genius, whose style is piquant and aggressive. Put Yourself in his Place, Griffith Gaunt, The Cloister and the Hearth, and Christie Johnstone are among his best novels. _See Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1864._ _Pub. Har._

=Redding, Cyrus.= 1785-1870. Miscellaneous writer. Author of A Wife and Not a Wife, Remarkable Misers, Past Celebrities, etc.

=Reeve, Clara.= 1725-1803. Novelist. Author Old English Baron, etc.

=Reeve, Lovell.= 1814-1865. Conchologist. Author Conchologia Iconica, Elements of Conchology, Conchologia Systematica, etc. _Pub. Put._

=Reeves, Mrs. Helen Buckingham [Mathers].= 185 Novelist. Author of Cherry Ripe, Comin' thro' the Rye, My Lady Green Sleeves, As He Comes Up the Stair, Land o' the Leal, Sam's Sweetheart, etc. _Pub.

Apl._

=Reid, Mayne.= 1818-1883. Author of tales of adventure for young readers. _Pub. Rou. Sh._

=Reid, Thomas.= 1710-1796. Scotch metaphysician. Author Inquiry into the Human Mind, Essays on the Intellectual Powers, etc. _See Hamilton's edition of Reid, 1846._

=Reynolds, Frederick.= 1765-1841. Dramatist. Author of nearly 100 plays, of which The Dramatist and Folly as it Flies are the best.

=Reynolds, George W. M.= ---- 1879. Novelist. Author Mysteries of London, Reformed Highwayman, etc. Style sensational, and influence pernicious. _Pub. Di. Pet._

=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= 1723-1792. Artist. Author Discourse on Painting. _See Malone's edition of, 1797._ _See Lives by Malone, Northcote, Farrington, Cotton, and Leslie, Mrs. Thackeray-Ritchie's Miss Angel, and Reynolds as a Portrait Painter, by J. E. Collins._

=Ricardo [re-kar'do], David.= 1792-1823. Political economist. Author High Price of Bullion, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, etc. _See McCulloch's edition, 1846._

=Rice, James.= 1843-1882. Novelist. Colleague of Walter Besant, and author with him of Sweet Nelly My Heart's Delight, Golden b.u.t.terfly, and other novels. See Besant, Walter. _Pub. Har._

=Richards, Alfred Bate.= 1820-1876. Poet and dramatist. Author of Cromwell, Vandyck, and other dramas, Medea, and other vols. of poems, and the novel So Very Human.

=Richardson, Chas.= 1775-1865. Lexicographer. Author of an Eng. Dict.

and The Study of Language.

=Richardson, Samuel.= 1689-1761. Novelist. Author Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison. The slow movement of these stories does not appeal readily to modern taste, but they display a wonderful knowledge of the workings of the human heart. Clarissa, the best, is a fine piece of realism. _See Taine's Eng. Lit., Ma.s.son's Novelists and their Styles, and Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library._ _Pub. Ho.

Rou._

=Richmond, Leigh.= 1772-1827. Moralist. Author The Dairyman's Daughter, etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi. Rou._

=Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte Eliza Lawson.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author George Geith, A Life's a.s.size, The Senior Partner, etc. _Pub. Clx.

Est. Har. Pet._

=Riddell, Henry Scott.= 1798-1870. Scotch poet. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._

=Riddell, Mrs. J. H.= See Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte.

=Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella.= See Thackeray-Ritchie.

=Ritchie, Leitch.= 1801-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author of Headpieces and Tailpieces, Wearyfoot Common, Romance of French History, etc.

=Ritson, Joseph.= 1752-1803. Antiquary and critic.

=Roberts, Margaret.= 183 Novelist. Author Mademoiselle Mori, Denise, The Atelier du Lys, In the Olden Time, On the Edge of the Storm, Ose, Tempest tossed, Madame Fontenoy, Summerleigh Manor, etc.

_Pub. Ho._

=Robertson, Frederick Wm.= 1816-1853. Religious writer. Author 4 vols.

of sermons, which rank among the finest religious utterances of the age. _See Life, by Stopford Brooke, and Blackwood's Mag., Aug. 1862._ _Pub. Dut. Har._

=Robertson, James Burton.= 180 Historical writer. Author Lect.

on Various Subjects of Ancient and Modern Hist., etc.

=Robertson, James Craigie.= 1813-1882. Ecclesiastical historian.

Author Hist. of the Christian Church, Biography of Thomas a Becket, etc.

=Robertson, Thos. Wm.= 1829-1871. Dramatist. Author David Garrick, Ours, Caste, M. P., and other lively and popular plays.

=Robertson, Wm.= 1721-1793. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Scotland, Hist. Reign of Charles V., Hist. Discovery of America, etc. His style is picturesque, but his statements are sometimes inaccurate. _See Prescott's Robertson's Charles V. Pub. Har._

=Robinson, A. Mary F.= 185- ----. Poet and litterateur. Author of A Handful of Honeysuckle, The Crowned Hippolytus, Rural England, and Emily Bronte, in Famous Women Series, etc. _Pub. Rob._

=Robinson, Frederick Wm.= 183 Novelist. Author of A Bridge of Gla.s.s, As Long as she Lived, Poor Zeph, Her Face was her Fortune, Little Kate Kirby, Second-Cousin Sarah, Stern Necessity, True to Herself, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Robinson, Henry Crabb.= 1775-1867. He left an entertaining Diary, published in 1869. _Pub. Hou. Mac._

=Robinson, Mrs. Mary.= 1758-1800. Poet and actress. Known to her contemporaries as "Perdita, the Fair."

=Rochester, Earl of.= See Wilmot, John.

=Rogers, Charles.= 182 Scotch antiquarian writer. Author of A Century of Scottish Life, Boswelliana, Scotland: Social and Domestic, etc.

=Rogers, Henry.= 1810-1877. Critic. Author Eclipse of Faith, Reason and Faith, etc. _Pub. Rou. Scr._

=Rogers, Samuel.= 1763-1855. Poet. Author Pleasures of Memory, a fine though labored production, Italy, etc. _See Hazlitt's Eng. Poets._ _Pub. Lip._

=Romilly, Sir Samuel.= 1757-1818. Jurist. Author of Speeches, etc.

_See Autobiography, 1840._

=Roscoe, Henry.= 1800-1836. Son to W. R. Author Lives of Eminent Lawyers, etc. _Pub. Jo._

=Roscoe, Thos.= 1791-1871. Son to W. R. Translator of important Italian works.

=Roscoe, Wm.= 1753-1831. Historian. Author Lives of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X., etc. A careful, painstaking writer, whose works, written in an easy, flowing style, are standard of their kind. _See Life of, by Henry Roscoe._

=Roscommon, Earl of.= See Dillon, Wentworth.

=Rose, George.= "Arthur Sketchley." 1830-1882. Litterateur. Best known by his humorous Mrs. Brown sketches. _Pub. Rou._