CAVE, EDWARD (1691-1754).--Publisher, _b._ near Rugby, started in 1731 _The Gentleman's Magazine_, for which Dr. Johnson was parliamentary reporter from 1740. He _pub._ many of Johnson's works. CAVENDISH, GEORGE (1500-1561).--Biographer, was Gentleman Usher to Cardinal Wolsey, to whom he was so much attached that he followed him in his disgrace, and continued to serve him until his death. He left in MS. a life of his patron, which is the first separate biography in English, and is the main original authority of the period. Admitting Wolsey's faults, it nevertheless presents him in an attractive light. The simple yet eloquent style gives it a high place as a biography. CAXTON, WILLIAM (1422-1491).--Printer and translator, _b._ in the Weald of Kent, was apprenticed to a London mercer. On his master's death in 1441 he went to Bruges, and lived there and in various other places in the Low Countries for over 30 years, engaged apparently as head of an association of English merchants trading in foreign parts, and in negotiating commercial treaties between England and the Dukes of Burgundy. His first literary labour was a translation of a French romance, which he entitled _The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye_, and which he finished in 1471. About this time he learned the art of printing, and, after being in the service of Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, an English princess, returned to his native country and set up at Westminster in 1476 his printing press, the first in England. His _Recuyell_ and _The Game and Playe of Chesse_ had already been printed--the first books in English--on the Continent. Here was produced the first book printed in England, _The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers_ (1477). C. obtained Royal favour, printed from 80 to 100 separate works--many of them translations of his own--and _d._ almost with pen in hand in 1491. His style is clear and idiomatic. CENTLIVRE, MRS. SUSANNA (1667-1723).--Dramatist and actress, was the _dau._ of a gentleman of the name of either Rawkins or Freeman, who appears to have belonged either to Lincolnshire or Ireland, or was perhaps connected with both, and who suffered at the hands of the Stuarts. She _m._ at 16, lost her husband in a year, then _m._ an officer, who fell in a duel in 18 months, and finally, in 1706, _m._ Joseph C., cook to Queen Anne, with whom she lived happily for the rest of her days. She wrote 18 or 19 plays, well constructed and amusing, among which may be mentioned _The Perjured Husband_ (1700), _The Busybody_ (1709), _The Warder_ (1714), and _A Bold Stroke for a Wife_ (1717). She was a strong Whig, and sometimes made her plays the medium of expressing her political opinions.