Handbook of fictitious names

The original text also used an emdash to link the place and date of death, as in ‘Scotland--1846’. For clarity these occurrences have been changed to e.g. ‘Scotland -1846’.

The preface is signed “Joseph Skillet,” the lodging-house keeper, who is supposed to publish these letters to pay the rent the gentleman had forgotten. This preface is left out...

This gentleman figures in our list for _plagiarism_, committed in his “History of All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk,” of which he is convicted by W. Hastings Kelke, author of _Sepulc...

“Why he [the author of Waverley] should industriously endeavour to elude observation by taking leave of us in one character, and then suddenly popping out upon us in another, we...

Nor can we omit, in concluding this notice of a most remarkable book, some notice of the disputes as to its authorship. The newspapers have been full of them. Mr. Anders, rector...

The Catholic Church of England, and what she teaches, a lecture. Manchester [printed], London, 1864. Monks and Nuns, in reply to two Lectures of Father Ignatius, O. S. B., 1864....

First published in the “Public Advertiser.” They are often talked about, but seldom read, only the mystery about the author has kept up the excitement. We cannot do more than sa...

1. That they appropriated a tale, changed its name, and announced it as reprinted from the author’s “advance sheets,” when they well knew the reprint was from nothing of the kin...

“This was published in 1819: its circulation was limited to Wiltshire and the adjoining counties: except that Mr. John Long, the High Sheriff, in that year presented two, by his...

Mr. Yates never wrote “Readings by Starlight” in the _Evening Star_, but he wrote, under this initial, about sixteen papers in the _Evening Star_, the continuation of which pape...

It is not often that we have occasion to praise this work, nor have we been much indebted to it. The bibliogram on Shakespeare is really so thoroughly worked up, that we have ve...

The edition of [1859] is:-- * D.D., a Sequel to Mary Powell. The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell, afterwards Mistress Milton, was first published like the above in Sharpe...

Three Discourses:-- 1. On the Use of Books. 2. On the Result and Effects of Study. 3. On the Elements of Literary Taste. Delivered at the Anniversary Meetings of the Library Soc...

“We have been informed that when Mr. Warden had left St. Helena, it was well known to all the French that he was carrying home notes for publication: and that, on the arrival of...

The rapidity with which certain novelists produce what are called their “works” has long been a matter of astonishment. To write two, three, or four stories a year has become a...

This gentleman has been in the habit, for the last twenty years, of putting advertisements over the leader of the _Athenæum_. They are upon religious controversial subjects, gen...

COLE, Henry, C.B., b. 1808, Bath, England. For Biog. Notice see Men of the Time. Mr. Cole’s “latest improvement” is that of an Universal Art Catalogue, the commencement of the p...

LANDON, Miss Letitia Elizabeth (Mrs. Maclean), b. 1802-1838. Life, by Blanchard, 1841. There is a portrait of her in the 3rd vol. of W. Jerdan’s Autobiography, who says that to...

PROCTER, B. W., poet, b. about 1790, England, educated at Harrow School, where he had Byron for a form-fellow. He married, in 1824, a daughter of Basil Montagu, by whom he had a...

WOOD, Mrs. Henry (q.v.), who is rather severely treated in the notice of her works, is not one whit worse than numbers of her contemporaries, only she has been found out, and th...

Poems. There are “Poems” on nearly every page of this work; it is, therefore, useless to give a list of pages. Nearly all will be found under their distinctive titles.

Pg xv: Addenda ‘176—188’ replaced by ‘177—188’. Pg xv: Index of Autonyms ‘192—220’ replaced by ‘193—220’. Pg 6: ‘Bentley’s Miseellany’ replaced by ‘Bentley’s Miscellany’. Pg 8:...