A Brief Handbook of English Authors - Part 17
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=Latimer, Hugh.= c. 1491-1555. Bp. Worcester. Theologian. His Sermons are rude but forcible and strongly idiomatic discourses. _See Corrie's edition. London, 4 vols. 8vo, 1845._ _See Life, by Demaus, 1869; and Tulloch's Leaders of the Reformation._

=Law, Wm.= 1686-1761. Theologian. Author Serious Call to a Higher Life, etc. _See Life, by Tighe, 1813._

=Lawrence, Geo. Alfred.= 1827-1876. Novelist. Author Guy Livingstone, Sword and Gown, Sans Merci, Anteros, Maurice Dering, etc. _Pub. Har.

Lip._

=Layamon.= fl. c. 1200. Author The Brut, or Chronicle of Britain, a famous semi-Saxon poem. Style earnest and simple. _See F. Madden's edition, 1847._

=Layard [l[=a]-ard], Austen Henry.= 181 Archaeologist. Author Nineveh and its Remains, Monuments of Nineveh, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Lear, Edward.= 18-- ----. Author Journal of a Landscape Painter, Nonsense Book, etc. _Pub. Rob._

=Lecky, Wm. Edw. Hartpole.= 183 Irish historian. Author Hist.

Rationalism, Hist. European Morals, Hist. England in the 18th Cent.

etc. A careful, dignified writer who treats of history philosophically.

_Pub. Apl._

=Lee, Frederick George.= 183 Theologian and poet. Author of Historical Sketches of the Reformation, Lyrics of Life and Light, etc.

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

=Lee, Harriet.= 1766-1851. Author [with Sophia L.] of the Canterbury Tales, a series of tales of much power. Byron's Werner is a version of one of them.

=Lee, Holme.= See Parr, Harriet.

=Lee, Nathaniel.= 1655-1692. Dramatist. Alexander the Great is one of his tragedies.

=Lee, Sophia.= 1750-1824. Novelist. Sister to H. L. Author of two of the Canterbury Tales, of several novels, and of the comedy The Chapter of Accidents.

=Lee, Wm.= 1815-1883. Irish theologian and ecclesiologist. His chief work is the Donnellan Lect. on the Inspiration of Scripture. A profound biblical scholar. _Pub. Ca._

=LeFanu, J. Sheridan.= ---- 1874. Novelist. Author All in the Dark, Tenants of Malory, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Leighton [l[=a]-ton], Rob't.= 1613-1684. Abp. Glasgow. Theologian.

His style is still much admired. _See Pearson's edition, London, 1828, N. Y. 1859._ _Pub. Ca._

=L. E. L.= See Landon.

=Leland, John.= 1506-1552. Antiquarian. Author The Itinerary, etc.

=Lemon, Mark.= 1809-1870. Journalist, novelist, and dramatist. The Serious Family is his best known farce. Author Jest Book, etc. _Pub.

Mac._

=Lempriere [l[)e]m'pr[)i]-er, or lem-preer'], John.= 1765-1824.

Scholar of note. Author of a Cla.s.sical Dict., and a Universal Biography. _Pub. Lip. Put. Rou._

=Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte.= 1720-1804. Novelist. Author Harriet Stuart and The Female Quixote.

=Lesley, John.= 1527-1596. Bp. Ross. Scotch historian. _See Thomson's Edition, 1830._

=Leslie, Chas.= 1650-1722. Irish theologian. Leslie wrote A Short and Easy Method with the Deists, a controversial work once noted.

=Leslie, Chas. Rob't.= 1794-1859. Artist. Author Handbook for Young Painters, Memoirs Sir John Constable, Life and Times Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc. _See Autobiographical Recollection of, edited by Tom Taylor, 1860._

=L'Estrange [l[)e]s-tr[=a]nj], Sir Roger.= 1616-1704. Political writer and translator.

=Lever [l[=e]'ver], Chas. James.= 1806-1872. Irish novelist. Author Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, etc., rollicking tales not greatly approved by the present taste. His later novels, like That Boy at Norcott's, etc., are soberer in tone. _Pub. Har._

=Lewes [l[=u]-is], Geo. Henry.= 1817-1878. Philosopher and critic.

Author Problems of Life and Mind, Life of Goethe, Hist. of Philosophy, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho. Hou._

=Lewes, Mrs. G. H.= See Evans, Marian.

=Lewis, Sir Geo. Cornwall.= 1806-1863. Political and historical writer. _See Letters of, 1870._

=Lewis, Matthew Gregory.= 1775-1818. Novelist. Famous as the author of The Monk, a fantastic, demoniac tale. _See Life and Correspondence, 1839._

=Leyden [li'den], John.= 1775-1811. Scotch poet and Orientalist. _See edition of his poems, 1858._

=Liddell [l[)i]d'del], Mrs. Catharine Christina Fraser-Tytler.= 184 Poet and novelist. Author Mistress Judith, Jonathan, Songs in Minor Keys, etc. _Pub. Ho. Mac._

=Liddell, Mrs. Edward.= See Liddell, Mrs. C.

=Liddell, Henry George.= 181 Cla.s.sical scholar. Author of a Hist. of Rome, and co-author with Scott of the noted Greek lexicon known as Liddell-and-Scott's. _Pub. Har._

=Liddon, Henry, Parry.= 183 Theologian. Author Bampton Lect.

1867, University Sermons, Sermons to the People, etc. A leader of High Church thought. _Pub. Dut._

=Lightfoot, Joseph Barber.= 182 Bp. Durham. Biblical commentator. _Pub. Mac._

=Lillo, George.= 1693-1739. Dramatist. Author George Barnwell, Fatal Curiosity, and Arden of Feversham. A master of dramatic situations.

=Lindsay, Sir David.= 1490-1557. Scotch poet. _See Chalmers' edition with Life, 1806._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Lingard, John.= 1771-1859. Historian. Author Hist. England, Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Ch., etc. His history has a high rank and is valued as a fair statement of facts from a Roman Catholic standpoint. _Pub. Est._

=Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn.= 182 Novelist. Wife to W. J. L. Author Lizzie Lorton, Sowing the Wind, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip. Rou._

=Linton, Wm. James.= 181 Poet and Engraver. Author Claribel, Hist. Wood Engraving, Life Thos. Paine, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Est. Le._

=Livingstone, David.= 1817-1873. African explorer. Author Expedition to the Zambesi, Last Journals, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Lloyd, Chas.= ---- 1839. Poet. Co-author with Chas. Lamb.

=Lloyd, Robert.= 1733-1764. Poet. _See Collected Works with Life, by Kenrick, 1774._

=Locke, John.= 1632-1704. Philosopher. Author of the famous Essay on the Understanding, a work of great penetration and power. _See Life by Fox-Bourne, and Locke, by T. Fowler in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub.

Apl._