Part 11 (1/2)
=Gatty, Mrs. Margaret.= 1809-1873. Wife to A. G. Author Parables from Nature, The Fairy G.o.dmother, Proverbs Ill.u.s.trated, Aunt Judy's Tales, etc. _Pub. Ca. Put._
=Gauden, John.= 1605-1664. Bp. Worcester. His Ik[=o]n Basilik[=e]
professed to be the work of Charles I., of whose sufferings it was an account, and its true authors.h.i.+p has occasioned much controversy.
=Gay, John.= 1688-1732. Poet and dramatist. G. wrote The Beggar's Opera, a famous musical drama, and numerous other works. _See edition of his Poems, London, 1806._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3, and Gay's Fables edited by Austin Dobson._ _Pub. Apl._
=Gell [j[)e]l], Sir Wm.= 1777-1836. Archaeologist. Author Topography of Rome, etc.
=Geoffrey [j[)e]f'r[)i]] of Dunstable.= ---- 1146. Author of a miracle play of St. Catherine [1110], usually considered the first dramatic work in any modern language.
=Geoffrey of Monmouth.= c. 1100-1154. Bp. St. Asaph, Anglo-Saxon Chronicler.
=Gibbon, Edward.= 1737-1794. Historian. Author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; a masterly work, artistically conceived and carried out, with great research and careful detail. See Milman's edition, 1845. _See Autobiography edited by Milman, 1839._ _Pub. Har.
Por._
=Gifford, Wm.= 1757-1826. Critic and reviewer. G. wrote the Baviad and Maeviad, two sharp literary satires, and as editor of the Quarterly Review was author of many bitter, satirical reviews. _See Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age._
=Gilbert, Wm.= 1540-1603. Philosophical writer. Author De Magnete.
=Gilbert, Wm.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author De Profundis, etc.
=Gilbert, Wm. Schevenck.= 183 Dramatist and humorous poet; son to preceding. Author of The Bab Ballads, Original Plays, and of the librettos of Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, The Sorcerer, Patience, Iolanthe, etc. _See Scribner's Mag., Sept. 1879._ _Pub. Por. Rou.
Scr._
=Gilchrist, Alexander.= 1827-1861. Biographer and art writer. Author lives of Blake and Etty.
=Gildas.= fl. c. 510. Anglo-Latin Chronicler. _See Stevenson's edition, London, 1838._
=Gilfillan, George.= 1813-1878. Scotch miscellaneous writer. Author Gallery of Literary Portraits, Life of Walter Scott, Bards of the Bible, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Gilfillan, Robert.= c. 1798-1850. Scotch poet.
=Gillies, John.= 1747-1836. Scotch historian. Author Hist. Ancient Greece, etc.
=Gilpin, John.= 1724-1804. Critic and biographer. Author Life of Bernard Gilpin, etc.
=Giraldus, Cambrensis.= 1147-1216. Welsh historian and poet.
=Girdlestone, Chas.= 1797-1881. Religious writer. Author Concordance to the Prayer-Book, etc.
=Gladstone, Wm. Ewart.= 180 Statesman and essayist. Author of Juventus Mundi, Homeric Studies, The Vatican Decrees, etc. Style polished and able. _See Sketch of, by H. W. Lucy, Short Life of, by C.
H. Jones, and Life, by Geo. Barnett Smith._ _Also Harper's Mag., April, 1882._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Scr._
=Gloucester [gl[)o]s-ter], Robert of.= fl. c. 1280. Rhyming chronicler.
=Glover, Richard.= 1712-1785. Poet. Author of Leonidas, an epic, Hosier's Ghost, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._
=G.o.dwin, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft.= 1759-1797. Wife to W. G. Author Vindication of the Rights of Women, etc. Style bold and able. _See Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1880._
=G.o.dwin, Wm.= 1756-1836. Philosopher and novelist. Author Caleb Williams, St. Leon, Cloudesly, Answer to Malthus, Political Justice, etc. _See Life, by Kegan Paul, 1876, and Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library._ _Pub. Har._