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Whitwell Elwin 1816–1900
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The complete works of Alexander Pope. Vols 1, 2, 6, 8, 1871–2; vols
3–5, 9, 10, ed W. J. Courthope 1881–9.
John Forster. Prefixed to the catalogue of the Dyce and Forster
Library, 1888.
Some eighteenth century men of letters. Ed Warwick Elwin 2 vols
1902. Rptd from Quart Rev: Cowper, Sterne, Fielding,
Goldsmith, Boswell and Dr Johnson. Includes anon memoir.
For Elwin’s contributions to Quart Rev, see Wellesley vol 5.
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Williams, S. T. A critic of eighteenth-century literature. Texas Rev 8
1922.
Some letters of Elwin. TLS 18–25 Sep 1953.
John Forster 1812–76
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The cabinet cyclopaedia. Ed D. Lardner. To the section Lives of
eminent British statesmen, Forster contributed the following
biographies: vol 2 1836, Sir John Eliot (rptd enlarged 2 vols 1864)
and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford; vol 3 1837, John Pym
and John Hampden; vol 4 1838, Sir Henry Vane and Henry
Marten; vols 6–7 1839, Oliver Cromwell. Forster’s contributions
were rptd 5 vols 1840 as Statesmen of the Commonwealth.
A treatise on the popular progress in English history. Introd to
Statesmen of the Commonwealth, 1840.
The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. 1848, 2 vols 1854
(enlarged as The life and times of Goldsmith); ed R. Ingpen 1903
(abridged).
Daniel De Foe and Charles Churchill. 2 vols 1855. Rptd from
Edinburgh Rev; later included in Historical and biographical
essays, vol 2, below.
Historical and biographical essays. 2 vols 1858, 1860 (with rev and
enlarged edn of vol 2). Vol 1 The debates on the Grand
Remonstrance, The Plantagenets and the Tudors, The Civil Wars
and Oliver Cromwell; vol 2 Defoe, Steele, Churchill, Foote.
The arrest of the five members by Charles the First; a chapter of
history re-written. 1860.
The debates on the Grand Remonstrance, November and December
1641; with an introductory essay on English freedom under the
Plantagenet and Tudor sovereigns. 1860. Rptd with addns from
Historical and biographical essays vol 1, above.
Walter Savage Landor: a biography. 2 vols 1869, 1876 (rev and
abridged as vol 1 of The works of Landor).
The life of Charles Dickens. 3 vols 1872–4; ed G. Gissing 1903 (rev
and abridged); ed G. K. Chesterton 2 vols 1927 (EL); ed J. W. T. Ley
[1928] (rev).
Alexander Dyce: a biographical sketch. Prefixed to vol 1 of catalogue
of the Dyce collection in the South Kensington Museum, 1875.
The life of Jonathan Swift. Vol 1 (all pbd) 1875. Completed by Sir H.
Craik.
Dramatic essays by John Forster and G. H. Lewes. Ed W. Archer and
R. W. Lowe 1896. 11 essays by Forster rptd from Examiner, 6 on
Macready as actor and as producer, 4 on Forster and one on
Charles Kean as Hamlet.
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Powell, T. Pictures of the living authors of Britain. 1851.
Morley, H. Sketch of Forster. Prefixed to the Handbook of the
Forster and Dyce collections, 1877.
Elwin, W. Biographical notice. Prefixed to catalogue of the Dyce and
Forster Library, 1888.
Renton, R. Forster and his friendships. 1912.
S[awyer], C. J. and F. J. H. D[arton]. Dickens v. Barabbas, Forster
intervening. 1930. A study of Dickens’s relations with his publishers
and with Forster.
Elwin, M. Forster. In his Victorian wallflowers, 1934.
Grubb, G. G. New letters from Dickens to Forster. Boston Univ Stud
in Eng 2 1956.
Davies, J. A. John Forster: a literary life. Leicester 1983.
William Forsyth 1812–99
Hortensius: or the advocate; an historical essay. 1849, 1874 (illus).
Fides laici. 1850. Anon; a long religious poem.
The great fair of Nijni Novogorod and how we got there. 1850 (priv
ptd). Later included in Essays critical and narrative, 1874.
History of trial by jury. 1852.
History of the captivity of Napoleon at St Helena, from the letters
and journals of the late Lieut-Gen Sir H. Lowe, and official documents
not before made public. 3 vols 1853.
The life of M. T. Cicero. 2 vols 1864, 1867.
Rome and its ruins. [1865.]
Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie: a lecture. [1867.]
The novels and novelists of the eighteenth century, in illustration of
the manners and morals of the age. 1871.
History of ancient manuscripts: a lecture. 1872.
Hannibal in Italy: an historical drama. 1872.
Essays critical and narrative. 1874. Literary style; William Cobbett;
Eugénie de Guérin etc.
The rules of evidence as applicable to the credibility of history; with
the discussion thereon from the Journal of the Victoria Institute.
1874.
The Slavonic provinces south of the Danube: a sketch of their
history and present state in relation to the Ottoman Porte. 1876.
Forsyth also pbd several legal works.
Sir Francis Galton 1822–1911
See col 2543.
Anne Gilchrist, née Burrows 1828–85
Charles Robert Darwin | Anne Gilchrist
For mss of Gilchrist’s letters, including those to Alfred and Emily Tennyson,
Lord Houghton, Francis Palgrave, D. G. Rossetti and publishers Macmillan
and Blackwood, see LR I, 398.
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Mary Lamb. 1883. Eminent Women Ser, ed John H. Ingram, micro
Chicago 1978. Boston 1883 with ser title Famous Women, rptd
New York 1972, and micros Louisville KY [19?] and New Haven CT
1977; 1889 (new edn), Boston 1898, 1909 (3rd edn).
Contributions to periodicals
A glance at the vegetable kingdom. Chambers’s Jnl 8, 10 Oct 1857.
Our nearest relation. All the Year Round 1, 28 May 1859.
The indestructibility of force. Macmillan’s Mag 6, Aug 1862.
A neglected art. Macmillan’s Mag 12, Oct 1865.
A woman’s estimate of Walt Whitman (from late letters by an
English lady to William Michael Rossetti). Radical 7, May 1870.
Three glimpses of a New England village. Blackwood’s Mag 136,
Nov 1884. Rptd in Anne Gilchrist: her life and writings, ed H. H.
Gilchrist, 1887.
A confession of faith. Today n.s. 3 no 6, June 1885. On Whitman.
Both articles on Whitman are rptd in Anne Gilchrist: her life and writings,
ed H. H. Gilchrist, 1887, and in The letters of Anne Gilchrist and
Walt Whitman, ed with an introd by T. B. Harned, New York 1918. A
woman’s estimate of Walt Whitman has also been rptd in In re Walt
Whitman, ed H. L. Traubel, R. M. Bucke and T. B. Harned, Philadelphia
1893. Abridgements of it have been pbd in R. M. Bucke, Walt Whitman,
Philadelphia 1883, A century of Whitman criticism, ed E. H. Miller,
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