Author:John Wilson (1785-1854)

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John Wilson
(1785–1854)

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Scottish classical scholar; editor of Blackwood's Magazine; wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North

Works

Homer and His Translators
The Greek Drama
The Isle of Palms (1812)
The City of the Plague (1816)
Noctes Ambrosianæ
Sailor and Shepherdess (1822)
Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life (1822)
The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay (1823)
The Foresters (1825)

Short works

"Stray Leaves" in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (1831) (transcription project)

Works about Wilson

"John Wilson," in The Maclise Portrait-Gallery (pp. 58−63), by William Bates, illustrated by Daniel Maclise, London: Chatto and Windus (1883)
"Wilson, John (1785-1854)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Wilson, John (7)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Wilson, John (poet)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Wilson, John (writer)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Wilson, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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