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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

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Born	March 29, 1759 • Aberdeen • Scotland
Died	December 10, 1834 (aged 75) • London • England
Notable Works	“General Biographical Dictionary”

Samuel Johnson

English author

Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Southey

English author

Andrew Motion

British poet and author

Muriel Spark

British writer

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Allan Cunningham

Scottish poet

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

W. H. Auden

British poet

Les Murray

Australian author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

A.L. Rowse

British historian and writer

Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

Peter Ackroyd

British author, biographer, critic and scholar

Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Arthur Symons

English poet and critic

John Addington Symonds

English writer

Joseph Blanco White

Spanish-English writer

Philip Larkin

British poet

Maurice Baring

British author

Sara Coleridge

British author

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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