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Baptised Jane Gibson Chambers. Eldest daughter of the Edinburgh author and publisher Robert Chambers. In 1852 married Frederick Lehmann. Mrs. Lehmann's connection with H.W. would have been through the WilIses, her aunt Janet being Wills's wife. The Lehmanns did not become close friends of Dickens until about 1860.

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Comic writer. Studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. L.S.A. 1834; M.R.C.S. 1835. For some years practised medicine; then abandoned that profession for writing. Joined staff of Punch shortly after periodical was founded; remained contributor to time of his death, though what he wrote in his later years was unusable. Among his Punch contributions was the text accompanying Richard Doyle's illustrations for Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe. Contributed to George Cruikshank's Table-Book; occasionally to Bentley's Miscellany and other periodicals. Author of The Comic Latin Grammar, The Comic English Grammar, both published 1840; and other similar books.

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Playwright and journalist. Attended a school in Cheam, Surrey. Learned hop business from his uncle; for a time manager of a brewery, Kentish Town. Early began sending verses and tales to periodicals. In 1836 began career as playwright. Author of some seventy dramas, farces, operettas, extravaganzas, and other pieces for the stage; also of songs, fairy tales, novels, and a jest book; but remembered almost solely as "Mark Lemon of Punch". One of the co-founders of the periodical, 1841; at first joint editor, thereafter sole editor until his death. Connected as editor and contributor also with other periodicals, e.g., London Journal, Once a Week, Illustrated London News.

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Novelist. B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1827; M.B. 1831. Practised medicine. After 1845 lived on the Continent. Vice-consul at Spezia, 1858-1867; consul at Trieste, 1867 until his death. Contributed The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1837-1840) and many of his following novels to Dublin University Magazine; edited Dublin University Magazine, 1842-1845. Contributed to Blackwood's, Cornhill, St. Paul's Magazine, and other periodicals. Author of some thirty books. Hon. LL.D. Trinity College, 1871.

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Miscellaneous writer. Born in St. Petersburg; son of a Russia merchant. Student at Eton; B.A. Cambridge, 1850; M.A. 1853. Admitted at Lincoln's Inn; called to the bar, 1858; went the South-eastern Circuit. M.P. for Devonport, 1868-1874. Among his contributions to periodicals was an article on Eton in Macmillan's. Author of Sketches of Cantabs, 1849; Across the Atlantic, 1850; Our College, 1857; Science and Revelation, 1871; Hints for the "Evidences of Spiritualism", 1872. Also wrote works in French; published edition of Juvenal's satires and a translation of Pliny's letters. At time of his death, engaged on edition of Seneca and an English-French dictionary.

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Barrister, reporter. Student at Cambridge. Admitted at Middle Temple, 1863; called to the bar, 1866. Parliamentary reporter for the Morning Post; from 1886, official reporter in Court of Probate and Divorce; chief of Times Parliamentary staff.

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Naval officer, adventurer, and writer; author of History of the Taiping Revolution (1866), in which he and his Portuguese wife, Marie, participated. Travelled to South Africa after her death on gold-hunting expeditions.

Wood engraver, poet and radical republican. Husband of Eliza Lynn Linton.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Not identified. "The Tub School" is assigned in the Office Book to "Loader" with payment marked as "Enclosed & fetched"; " Pearls from the East" is assigned to "Mr. Loader per Horne" with the notation "Cheque called for".

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Writer, novelist and editor. Editor of The Graphic from 1870 to 1891. Works of fiction included Sweet Seventeen (1866), On a Coral Reef (1869), and Stephen Scudamore the Younger (1871).

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Not identified. The two articles assigned to the contributor recount instances of bribery, intimidation, exertion of Government influence, and other tactics resorted to in Parliamentary elections.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

b. 1832 (according to Mrs. Crosland) or 1834 (according to Allibone), d. 1864. Writer of children's stories; only child of John Claudius Loudon, writer on botany, and his wife Jane (Webb) Loudon, known for her popular manuals on gardening. Mrs. Newton Crosland, Landmarks of a Literary Life (pp. 185-89), Lady Priestley, The Story of a Lifetime (pp. 115-16), and Mrs. Cowden Clarke, My Long Life (pp. 128-29, 133-34) recorded their recollections of Miss Loudon:

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Born in Clerkenwell, London, son of William Lovell, surveyor. Educated at King's College School, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, matriculated, 1846. Admitted Inner Temple, 1850; called to the Bar, 1853. Collected and published his verse in Rivulets in Verse (London: G. J. Cross, 1873).

Miniature painter, author and song writer.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Journalist, translator. Began journalistic career as editor of a Preston newspaper. Thereafter, 1843-63, edited the Critic, a London literary journal. Contributed to the Field, the Queen, and other periodicals. Projected Selected Series of French Literature, of which he brought out one title: Madame de Sevigne, 1853. Translated, 1857, Victor SchreIcher's Life of Handel.

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The contributor is probably the George Lumley who contributed the signed article "La Lanterne" to the Contemp. Rev., Jan. 1869. "La Lanterne" is a discussion of Henri Rochefort's periodical of that title; it gives extensive quotations from the periodical. The source of the H.W. article "Jews in Rome" is likewise a French periodical. Motivated by public interest in the sensational Mortara case, the article describes the Jewish ghetto in Rome and the conditions under which the Jews live, the information being taken from a series of articles by Edmond About in the Moniteur.

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Inventor of a system of musical notation, misc. writer, under pseudonyms "Arthur Wallbridge" and "Wallbridge Lunn". Contributed to People's Journal. Published The Sequential System of Musical Notation, 1843. Author of the booklets Jest and Earnest, 1840; Bizarre Fables, 1842; Torrington Hall (account of visit to lunatic asylum), 1845; The Council of Four: A Game at "Definitions" (calls himself editor), 1847. Reprinted the four last-mentioned items in Miscellanies "By Wallbridge Lunn; ('Arthur Wallbridge')", 1851; and, in whole or part and with some additions, in The Wallbridge Miscellanies, 1874, and later dates.

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Not identified. Evidently the "correspondent" whose description of a public reading-room in Paris Morley quotes in 'Free Public Libraries' (H.W., III, 80-83).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Journalist and novelist; daughter of a Cumberland clergyman. No schooling; "did lessons" with eldest sister; read books in her father's library; taught herself languages. Early began writing verses and stories. In 1845, with grudging consent of her father, went to London to read at British Museum and complete a novel that she had begun. Published Azeth, the Egyptian, 1846, at her own expense; the book favourably reviewed in the Times. Sold her second novel, Amymone, 1848, to Bentley. In the Examiner, July 22 1848, appeared the laudatory verses: "Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn, on her Amymone". Had met Landor shortly before; became his close friend—his "dear daughter". Turned to journalism for a livelihood. In 1848 obtained position on staff of Morning Chronicle at twenty guineas a month; was thus first English woman newspaper writer to draw fixed salary. From that time to end of her life wrote for more than thirty-five periodicals; much of her writing in Literary Gazette, Saturday Review, Cornhill, Pall Mall Gazette. Author of some twenty-five novels and collections of stories, her two best novels being The True History of Joshua Davidson and The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland. Also brought out in book form some of her periodical articles. Was throughout her life an independent thinker in matters of religion and social relationships; in middle life abandoned the "advanced" ideas that she had formerly held on position of women. In 1858 married William James Linton, the wood engraver; the marriage an unsatisfactory one.

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