Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,who first appeared in publication in 1887.He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.A brilliant London-based consulting detective,Holmes is famous for his intellectual ...
Ian Kershaw dismisses the Frankenberger story as a “smear” by Hitler’s enemies, noting that all Jews had been expelled from Graz in the 15th century and were not allowed to return until well after Alois was born.” The reference to Sir Ian Kershaw’s work is: Kershaw, Ian (1998), ...
“Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-1883” “Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882-1895” (Show more) Show More Leon Edel(born September 9, 1907,Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 5, 1997,Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American literary critic and biographer, who was the forem...
Alexander Chalmers (born March 29, 1759, Aberdeen, Scot.—died Dec. 10, 1834, London, Eng.) was a Scottish editor and biographer best known for his General Biographical Dictionary (1812–17), a 32-volume revision of work first published in 11 volumes (1761). Chalmers’ Glossary to ...
Edmond Malone was an Irish-born English scholar, editor, and pioneer in efforts to establish an authentic text and chronology of William Shakespeare’s works. After practicing in Ireland as a lawyer and journalist, Malone settled in London in 1777. There
Sir Leslie Stephen(born Nov. 28, 1832, London—died Feb. 22, 1904, London) was an English critic, man of letters, and the first editor of theDictionary of National Biography. A member of a distinguishedintellectualfamily, Stephen was educated at Eton, atKing’s College,London, and at Tri...
Saint John Ervine (born Dec. 28, 1883, Belfast, Ire.—died Jan. 24, 1971, London, Eng.) was a British playwright, novelist, and critic, one of the first to write dramas in the style of local realism fostered by the Irish literary renaissance. Ervine’s best-known plays are Mixed ...