A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 34

=Whitelocke, Bulstrode.= 1605-1676. Historical writer. His Memorials of Eng. Affairs and other works are of much value.

=Wicklif, John.= 1324-1384. Reformer. Translator of the Bible. _See T.

Arnold's Select Eng. Works of 1871._ _See Biography, by Vaughan, 1853._ _Pub. Mac._

=Wilberforce, Robert Isaac.= 1802-1857. Theological writer. Son to W.

W.

=Wilberforce, Samuel.= 1805-1873. Bp. Oxford. Son to W. W. Author Hist. P. E. Church in America, Sermons, Eucharistica, etc. _See Life, 1883._ _Pub. Ca. Dut._

=Wilberforce, Wm.= 1759-1833. Philanthropist. Author Practical View of Christianity, etc. _See Life, by his sons, 5 vols., London, 1838; also, Life, by John Stoughton._

=Wilde, Oscar.= 185 Irish poet. Charmides and Ave Imperatrix are among his finest poems. His verse is musical, but frequently erotic.

_See The Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Rob._

=Wilkie, Wm.= 1721-1772. Scotch poet. Author of The Epigoniad.

=Wilkins, John.= 1614-1672. Bp. Chester. Of his many works, the chief is the Discovery of a New World, which attempts to prove the feasibility of a pa.s.sage from the earth to the moon.

=Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner.= 1797-1875. Egyptologist. Author Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Modern Egypt, etc. _See Memoir, by his wife, 1876._ _Pub. Har. Lit._

=Wilkinson, John James Garth.= 181 Physician. Author Biography of Swedenborg, The Human Body, The Ministry of Health, etc. _Pub.

Lip._

=Williams, Sir Chas. Hanbury.= 1709-1759. Satirist and poet.

=Williams, Helen Maria.= 1762-1827. Poet and political writer. Author of the familiar hymn beginning "While Thee I seek, Protecting Power."

=Williams, Monier.= 181 Sanskrit scholar. Author Eng. and Sanskrit Dict., and Sanskrit and Eng. Dict., etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Williams, Rowland.= 1817-1870. Welsh theologian. _See Life, by his wife, 1874._

=Wills, Wm. Gorman.= 182 Dramatist and novelist. Eugene Aram, Jane Sh.o.r.e, Charles I., and Mary Stuart are some of his plays. _Pub.

Har._

=Wills, Wm. Henry.= 1810-1880. Journalist and miscellaneous writer.

_Pub. Har._

=Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester.= 1647-1680. Poet. A writer of numerous gay, witty, but extremely licentious lyrics.

=Willmott, Robert Avis.= 1809-1863. Poet and biographer. Author Life of Jeremy Taylor, and editor of Herbert, Gray, Cowper, etc. _Pub.

Rou._

=Wilson, Daniel.= 181 Miscellaneous writer. Author of Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Prehistoric Man, Caliban the Missing Link, Chatterton: a Biographical Study, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Wilson, George.= 1818-1859. Chemist and essayist. Author Five Gateways to Knowledge, Life Prof. Forbes, etc. _See Memoir, by his sister._ _Pub. Mac._

=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 Ambrosianae. His style could be tender and pathetic, but as a reviewer it was often coa.r.s.e, 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.= 182 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 [w[)o]l'k[o^]t, or w[)oo]l'k[o^]t], 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 G.o.dwin, Mrs. Mary.

=Wood, Anthony.= 1632-1695. Antiquary. Author Athenae Oxonienses, etc.

_See Rawlinson's Life, 1811._

=Wood, Mrs. Ellen [Price].= 182 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.= 182 Naturalist. Author Homes without Hands, Bible Animals, Common Objects of the Sea and Sh.o.r.e, etc. _Pub. Cas.

Har. Por. Rou._

=Woodhouselee, Lord.= See Tytler, A. F.

=Woolner, Thomas.= 182 Sculptor and poet. Author My Beautiful Lady, etc. Style delicate and pure. _Pub. Mac._

=Worboise, Mrs. Emma Jane.= 182 Novelist. Author Helen Bury, Lights and Shadows of Christian Life, Th.o.r.n.ycroft Hall, etc. _Pub.

Rou._

=Wordsworth, Chas.= 180 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.