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Stephen Lucius Gwynn

betekenis & definitie

Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Iersch schrijver en historicus; * 1864 te Dublin. Studeerde te Dublin en Oxford; ging in 1896 naar Londen en begon als journalist.

Werd nationalistisch parlementslid voor Galway city (1906-’18). President van de Irish Literary Society sedert 1932.Werken: An Eighteenth Century Portrait Painter (Northcote) (1898); Tennyson (1899); The Repentance of a Private Secretary (1898); Highways and Byeways in Donegal and Antrim (1899); The Decay of Sensibility (1900); The Old Knowledge (1901); To-day and Tomorrow in Ireland (1902); The Masters of Eng. Lit. (1904); Thomas Moore (1904); The Fair Hills of Ireland (1906); The Famous Cities of Ireland (1916); Robert Emmet: A Historical Romance (1909); Irish Books and Irish People (1919); The Hist. of Ireland (1923); Ireland, A Survey of Hist. Forces (1924); Experiences of a Literary Man (1926); Saints and Scholars, biographical essays (1929); The Life of Sir Walter Scott (1930); Burgundy (1930); The Life of Horace Walpole (1932); Mary Kingsley (1932); Life and Friendships of Dean Swift (1933); Claude Monet and His Garden (1934).

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