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=Bickersteth, Rob't.= 181 Bp. Ripon. Religious writer. Author of Lent Lectures, Bible Landmarks, etc.
=Birch, Thomas.= 1705-1766. Historian and biographer. Author of a General Dictionary, Historical and Critical.
=Black, Wm.= 184 Novelist. A prolific writer, the best of whose works are A Daughter of Heth, Princess of Thule, Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, and Macleod of Dare. They evince rare powers of description and much constructive skill. _See Harper's Mag. Dec. 1882._ _Pub.
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=Blackie, John Stuart.= 180 Scotch poet and scholar. For 30 years Greek Professor at Edinburgh Univ. His numerous works include Greek, Latin, and German translations, several vols. of poems, and a famous work on Self-Culture which has been translated into every European language. _Pub. Scr._
=Blackmore, Sir Richard.= 1650-1729. Poet. Author of the epics The Creation, and Prince Arthur.
=Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= 182 Novelist. Author Lorna Doone, Maid of Sker, Alice Lorraine, Erema, Mary Anerly, Christowell, etc. A vigorous and original writer. Lorna Doone is his finest work.
_Pub. Har. Lip._
=Blackstone, Sir Wm.= 1723-1780. Jurist. Author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, an authoritative work. _See Campbell's Lives of the Chief Justices._ _Pub. Har. Lip._
=Blair, Hugh.= 1718-1800. Author of the once famous Lectures on Rhetoric. _Pub. Por._
=Blair, Robert.= 1699-1747. Poet. Author of The Grave, a dull, didactic, but once popular poem. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._
=Blake, Wm.= 1757-1827. Artist and poet. Author of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and Experience, etc. A writer of rare simplicity and beauty. An Elizabethan poet of the 19th cent. _See editions of his poems by Shepherd and Rossetti, and Life by Gilchrist, 1863 and 1881, also Swinburne's Study of Blake, 1863._ _Pub. Rob._
=Blamire, Susanna.= 1747-1794. Poet. Author of the fine lyrics, The Siller Crown, What Ails this Heart o' Mine, etc.
=Blanchard, Edward Laman.= 182 Dramatist and novelist.
=Blanchard, Laman.= 1803-1845. Litterateur. _See Bulwer's Memoir of, with Blanchard's Essays and Sketches, 1849._
=Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of.= 1789-1849. Society novelist.
_See Life and Correspondence edited by D. R. Madden._
=Bloomfield, Robert.= 1766-1823. Pastoral poet. Author of The Farmer's Boy, Rural Tales, The Horkey, etc. _Pub Por. Rou._
=Blunt, John Henry.= 182 Theologian. Author Hist. Reformation in Ch. of England and editor Dict. Sects and Heresies, etc. _Pub. Dut._
=Blunt, John James.= 1794-1855. Ecclesiologist. Author Hist. Christian Ch. in the first three centuries, etc. _Pub. Ca._
=Bolingbroke, Lord.= See St. John, Henry.
=Bonar, Horatius.= 180 Scotch poet. Author Hymns of Faith and Hope, etc. _Pub. Ca._
=Borrow, George.= 1803-1881. Author of Gipsies of Spain, Bible in Spain, Lavengro, The Romany Rye, Romany Word Book, etc. _See Autobiography, 1851._ _Pub. Ca. Har._
=Boswell [boz'well], Alexander.= 1775-1822. Poet. Son to J. B. His song, Jenny Dang the Weaver, is his best known production.
=Boswell, James.= 1740-1795. Biographer. His Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson is an incomparable work. _Pub. Ho. Lit. Rou._
=Boswell, James.= 1779-1822. Son to preceding. Shakespearean scholar.
=Boucicault [boo-se-ko'], Dion.= 182 Dramatist. Among his very numerous popular plays, London a.s.surance, Rip Van Winkle, The Corsican Brothers, Led Astray, and the Shaughran are perhaps the best. _See Johnson's Cyc._
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