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BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA

LITERARIA;

OR

Biography of Literary Characters

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE COUNCIL

OF THE

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.

LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET.

REF

LITERARIA;

OR

Biography of Literary Characters

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

ARRANGED

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD.

BY

THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

ADVERTISEMENT

THE distinguishing characteristic of this volume, which has been composed by Mr. Thomas Wright, M.A. under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, is that it contains, in a chronological series, a biography of all those natives of the British Islands who are known to have enjoyed any literary reputation during the period of the Anglo-Saxon rule. And it is proposed by the Society, in continuing the work, to trace down the stream of British literature, in successive periods of time, to the close of the seventeenth century. Several reasons may be alleged for giving to this arrangement the preference over that which is in the order of the alphabet; and the reader will, perhaps, find it convenient to be able to have recourse to biographical collections founded on both plans.

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