A dictionary of American authors

Name: A dictionary of American authors
Author: Adams, Oscar Fay

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Holley, Mrs. Mary [Austin].= 17-- -1846. The wife of Horace Holley,
a Unitarian clergyman of Kentucky. Texas: Observations Historical,
Geographical, and Descriptive (1833); Memoir of Horace Holley.

=Holley, Orville Luther.= _Ct._, 1791-1861. Brother-in-law of Mrs.
Holley, _supra_. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. Description
of New York City; Life of Benjamin Franklin.

=Hollister, Gideon Hiram.= _Ct._, 1817-1881. A lawyer of Litchfield,
Connecticut, who was minister to Hayti, 1868-69. Mount Hope, an
historical romance; History of Connecticut; Thomas à Becket, a Tragedy,
and Other Poems; Kinley Hollow.

=Holloway, Mrs. Laura [Carter].= _Tn._, 1848- ----. A writer who was
for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn Eagle. Ladies
of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Brontë; The Hearthstone,
or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Chinese Gordon;
Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson; The Buddhist Diet
Book. _Fu._

=Holly, Henry Hudson.= _N. Y._, 1834-1892. An architect of New York
city. Country Seats; Church Architecture; Modern Dwellings in Town and
Country.

=Holm, Saxe.= _See Jackson, Mrs. Helen._

=Holmes, Abiel.= _Ct._, 1763-1837. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge,
pastor of the First Church there, 1792-1832. Life of Ezra Stiles,
_infra_; History of Cambridge; American Annals; Memoir of the French
Protestants. _See Life by W. Jenks._

=Holmes, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1810-1873. A Methodist preacher in Michigan
and Indiana. Pure Gold, or Truth in its Native Loveliness; The Wesley
Offering; Discussion on the Atonement.

=Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana [Klingle].= “George Klingle.” _Pa._,
185- - ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Make Thy Way Mine; In the
Name of the King. _Sto._

=Holmes, John.= _Ms._, 1773-1843. A once prominent senator in Congress
from Massachusetts, and subsequently from Maine, who was the author of
The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation.

=Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane [Hawes].= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A voluminous
author of popular fiction of a domestic kind, the literary merit of
which is slight. She has for many years lived at Brockport, New York.
Among her writings are, Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine; Marian Grey;
Gretchen. _Dil._

=Holmes, Nathaniel.= _N. H._, 1814-1901. A jurist of St. Louis in
earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in Harvard
University, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He was
an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of
Shakespeare’s plays. The Authorship of Shakespeare; Realistic Idealism
in Philosophy Itself. _Hou._

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Holley, Mrs. Mary [Austin].= 17-- -1846. The wife of Horace Holley,
a Unitarian clergyman of Kentucky. Texas: Observations Historical,
Geographical, and Descriptive (1833); Memoir of Horace Holley.

=Holley, Orville Luther.= _Ct._, 1791-1861. Brother-in-law of Mrs.
Holley, _supra_. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. Description
of New York City; Life of Benjamin Franklin.

=Hollister, Gideon Hiram.= _Ct._, 1817-1881. A lawyer of Litchfield,
Connecticut, who was minister to Hayti, 1868-69. Mount Hope, an
historical romance; History of Connecticut; Thomas à Becket, a Tragedy,
and Other Poems; Kinley Hollow.

=Holloway, Mrs. Laura [Carter].= _Tn._, 1848- ----. A writer who was
for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn Eagle. Ladies
of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Brontë; The Hearthstone,
or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Chinese Gordon;
Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson; The Buddhist Diet
Book. _Fu._

=Holly, Henry Hudson.= _N. Y._, 1834-1892. An architect of New York
city. Country Seats; Church Architecture; Modern Dwellings in Town and
Country.

=Holm, Saxe.= _See Jackson, Mrs. Helen._

=Holmes, Abiel.= _Ct._, 1763-1837. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge,
pastor of the First Church there, 1792-1832. Life of Ezra Stiles,
_infra_; History of Cambridge; American Annals; Memoir of the French
Protestants. _See Life by W. Jenks._

=Holmes, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1810-1873. A Methodist preacher in Michigan
and Indiana. Pure Gold, or Truth in its Native Loveliness; The Wesley
Offering; Discussion on the Atonement.

=Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana [Klingle].= “George Klingle.” _Pa._,
185- - ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Make Thy Way Mine; In the
Name of the King. _Sto._

=Holmes, John.= _Ms._, 1773-1843. A once prominent senator in Congress
from Massachusetts, and subsequently from Maine, who was the author of
The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation.

=Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane [Hawes].= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A voluminous
author of popular fiction of a domestic kind, the literary merit of
which is slight. She has for many years lived at Brockport, New York.
Among her writings are, Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine; Marian Grey;
Gretchen. _Dil._

=Holmes, Nathaniel.= _N. H._, 1814-1901. A jurist of St. Louis in
earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in Harvard
University, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He was
an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of
Shakespeare’s plays. The Authorship of Shakespeare; Realistic Idealism
in Philosophy Itself. _Hou._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A dictionary of American authors

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