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Gillette, William

(Encyclopedia) Gillette, WilliamGillette, Williamjəlĕtˈ [key], 1853–1937, American actor and dramatist, b. Hartford, Conn. His New York debut in Mark Twain's Gilded Age (1877) was shortly followed by…

Hodgson, Ralph

(Encyclopedia) Hodgson, Ralph, 1871–1962, English poet. He wrote five volumes of poetry before his collected poems appeared in 1917. After a silence of nearly 40 years—during which time he taught in…

Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson

(Encyclopedia) Burnett, Frances Eliza HodgsonBurnett, Frances Eliza Hodgsonbərnĕtˈ [key], 1849–1924, American author, b. Manchester, England. In 1865 she went to Knoxville, Tenn., with her family.…

Harvey, William Hope

(Encyclopedia) Harvey, William Hope, 1851–1936, American writer on economics, called Coin Harvey, b. Buffalo, Putnam co., W.Va. He studied at Marshall College, practiced law, and interested himself…

Jane Hodgson 2006 Deaths

Jane HodgsonAge: 91 abortion-rights activist and subject of a 1970 test case in which she became the only doctor in the United States to be convicted of illegally performing an abortion in a…

Wordsworth, Christopher

(Encyclopedia) Wordsworth, Christopher, 1774–1846, English clergyman, educator, and writer; youngest brother of William Wordsworth. He was master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1820 to 1841.…

Hope

(Encyclopedia) Hope, city (2020 pop. 9,425), seat of Hempstead co., SW Ark. Hope is a commercial center and a distribution point for an agricultural…

Frederick William I

(Encyclopedia) Frederick William I, 1688–1740, king of Prussia (1713–40), son and successor of Frederick I. He continued the administrative reforms and the process of centralization begun by…

Baur, Ferdinand Christian

(Encyclopedia) Baur, Ferdinand ChristianBaur, Ferdinand Christianfĕrˈdĭnänt krĭsˈtēän bour [key], 1792–1860, German Protestant theologian. He was from 1826 on the theological faculty of Tübingen. He…

Hilton, Walter

(Encyclopedia) Hilton, Walter, d. 1396, English religious writer, an Austin canon of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire. His spiritual treatise The Scale of Perfection (ed. by Evelyn Underhill, 1923) is a…