Chapter D

DEKKER, THOMAS. Born at London, about 1570; died about 1641. Little is
known of his life; imprisoned several times; had literary quarrels
with Ben Jonson. Lived in the great period of the English drama (the
age of Shakespeare); wrote many of his plays in collaboration with
other writers of the period. Among his best-known plays are "The
Shoe-makers' Holiday" and "Old Fortunatus." _The Happy Heart_.

DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. Born at New York City, Aug. 7, 1795; died there
Sept. 21, 1820. Author of "The Culprit Fay" and "The American Flag."
_The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife_.

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ELIOT, GEORGE (Mary Ann Evans Lewes Cross). Born at Arbury Farm,
Warwickshire, Eng., Nov. 22, 1819; died at Chelsea, London, Dec. 22,
1880. Educated at Nuneaton and Coventry; assistant editor of the
_Westminster Review_ 1851-3. Lived with George Henry Lewes from 1854
until his death in 1878; married John Walter Cross in 1880. Among her
books (mostly novels) are "Adam Bede," "The Mill on the Floss," "Silas
Marner," "Romola," "Felix Holt," "The Spanish Gypsy," "Middlemarch,"
"Daniel Deronda," and "Impressions of Theophrastus Such." _You May
Count That Day_.

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Born at Boston, Mass., May 25, 1803; died at
Concord, Mass., Apr. 27, 1882. Graduated at Harvard College 1821,
working his way; taught school; began to study for the ministry 1823;
licensed to preach 1826; trip to the South for his health 1827-8;
Unitarian minister in Boston 1829-32; European travel 1832-3; settled
at Concord 1834; lectured extensively for over thirty years.
Contributed to the _Dial_ 1840-4; visited Europe 1847-8 and 1872-3.
Lectured at Harvard 1868-70. Some of his works are "Nature," "The
American Scholar," "Essays" (first and second series), "Representative
Men," "English Traits," "The Conduct of Life," and "Society and
Solitude." _Duty; Fable_.

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FOLEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Born at St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4, 1874. Educated at
the University of South Dakota. Member of Masonic Order and Past Grand
Master of Masons. Had early ranch experience; knew Theodore Roosevelt
during his ranching days. Began newspaper work on the Bismarck, N.
Dak., _Tribune_ 1892. During the Great War he served seventeen months
in army camps as an entertainer and inspirational lecturer, traveling
fifty thousand miles and addressing a quarter of a million men. For
fifteen years he has been lecturing and writing. His work includes
books of verse, humorous sketches, and plays. At present associate
editor of the Pasadena, Cal., _Evening Post._ Among his books are
"Boys and Girls," "Tales of the Trail," "Friendly Rhymes," "Voices of
Song," "Letters of William Green," and "Songs of Schooldays." _A Hymn
to Happiness; A Toast to Merriment; Days of Cheer; Friends of Mine;
One of These Days; Song of Endeavor; Undismayed_.

FOSS, SAM WALTER. Born at Candia, N.H., June 19, 1858; died in 1911.
Graduated from Brown University 1882; editor 1883-93; general writer
1893-8; librarian at Somerville, Mass., from 1898; lecturer and reader
of his own poems. Among his books are "Back Country Poems," "Whiffs
from Wild Meadows," "Dreams in Homespun," "Songs of War and Peace,"
and "Songs of the Average Man." _The Firm of Grin and Barrett_, 118;
_The House by the Side of the Road_, 2.

FOWLER, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT (The Honorable Mrs. Alfred Felkin). Elder
daughter of 1st Viscount Wolverhampton; married to Alfred Laurence
Felkin 1903. Among her books are "Verses Grave and Gay," "Verses Wise
and Otherwise," "Cupid's Garden," "Concerning Isabel Carnaby," "A
Double Thread," "The Farringdons," "Love's Argument," "Place and
Power," "Miss Fallowfield's Fortune," "The Wisdom of Folly," "Her
Ladyship's Conscience," and "Ten Degrees Backward." _The Wisdom of
Folly_, 61.

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GARRISON, THEODOSIA. Born at Newark, N.J., 1874. Educated at private
schools at Newark. Married Joseph Garrison of Newark 1898; married
Frederick J. Faulks of Newark 1911. Among her books are "The Joy of
Life, and Other Poems," "Earth Cry, and Other Poems," and "The
Dreamers." _A Prayer_, 156; _One Fight More_, 145.

GATES, ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON. Born at Torrington, Conn., 1834; died at
New York City, Oct. 12, 1920. Schooling at Hamilton, N.Y. Among her
books are "Treasures of Kurium," "The Dark," "To the Unborn Peoples,"
and "The Marble House." _The Bars of Fate_, 158; _Your Mission_, 120.

GILLILAN, STRICKLAND W. Born at Jackson, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1869. Attended
Ohio University to junior year; began newspaper work on the Jackson,
Ohio, _Herald_ 1887; and has since been on the staffs of many
newspapers and magazines in various capacities. Writer of humorous
verse, and popular lyceum lecturer. Among his books are "Including
Finnigan," "Including You and Me," and "A Sample Case of Humor." _Keep
Sweet_, 220.

GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS. Born at Hartford, Conn., July 3, 1860.
Excellent home instruction; school attendance scant; real education
reading and thinking, mainly in natural science, history, and
sociology. Writer and lecturer on humanitarian topics, especially
along lines of educational and legal advancement. _The Forerunner_, a
monthly magazine, entirely written by her, published for seven years
from 1910. Among her publications are "In This Our World," "Women and
Economics," "Concerning Children," "The Home," "Human Work," "The
Yellow Wallpaper," "The Man-made World," "Moving the Mountain," "What
Diantha Did," and "The Crux." _Resolve; The Lion Path_.

GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER. Born at Paris, France, Dec. 15, 1876. Educated
at the Hill School and Yale. Interior decorator, poet, and essayist.
At present scenario writer at Hollywood, California. Author of "Beggar
and King" and "Literary Snapshots." _Man or Manikin_.

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany,
Aug. 28, 1749; died at Weimar, Mar. 22, 1832. Famous poet, dramatist,
and prose writer. Among his well-known works are "The Sorrows of Young
Werther," "Wilhelm Meister," "Hermann and Dorothea," and "Faust."
_Lose the Day Loitering_.

GRAY, THOMAS. Born at London, Dec. 26, 1716; died at Cambridge, July 30,
1771. Educated at Eton and Cambridge; went with Horace Walpole on trip
to Continent 1739-41; became professor of modern history at Cambridge
1768, but did not teach. A man singularly retiring and shy throughout
his life. Among his well-known poems are "Ode on a Distant Prospect of
Eton College," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "The Progress
of Poetry," "The Bard," "The Fatal Sisters," and "The Descent of
Odin." _Opening Paradise_.

GUEST, EDGAR ALBERT. Born at Birmingham, Eng., Aug. 20, 1881; brought to
the United States 1891; educated in grammar and high schools of
Detroit, Mich. Connected with the Detroit _Free Press_ since 1895;
syndicates a daily poem in several hundred newspapers. His books are
"A Heap o' Livin'," "Just Folks," "Over Here," "Path to Home," and
"When Day is Done." _Can't; How Do You Tackle Your Work?; It Couldn't
Be Done; See It Through; There Will Always Be Something to Do; The
Things That Haven't Been Done Before; The World Is Against Me; To a
Young Man_.

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HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST. Born at Gloucester, Eng., Aug. 23, 1849; died
July 11, 1903. Educated at the Crypt Grammar School at Gloucester.
Afflicted with physical infirmity, and in hospital at Edinburgh
1874--an experience which gave the material for his "Hospital
Sketches." Went to London 1877; edited _London_ (a magazine of art)
1882-6; the _Scots Observer_ (which became the _National Observer_)
1888-93; and the _New Review_ 1893-8. Besides three plays which he
wrote in collaboration with Robert Louis Stevenson, he is the author
of "Views and Reviews," "Hospital Sketches," "London Voluntaries" and
"Hawthorn and Lavenden" _Invictus_, 5; _Praise the Generous Gods for
Giving_, 194; _Thick Is the Darkness_, 151.

HERBERT, GEORGE. Born at Montgomery Castle, Wales, Apr. 3, 1593; died at
Bemerton, near Salisbury, Eng., Feb., 1633. Graduated from Cambridge
1613; took M.A. degree 1616. He was in high favor at court; appointed
by the King as rector to Bemerton Church in 1630, and there wrote the
religious poems for which he is remembered. _The Gifts of God_, 211.

HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT. Born at Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819; died
at New York City, Oct. 21, 1881. Editor of the _Springfield
Republican_ 1849-66; editor-in-chief of _Scribner's Monthly_ (which
later became the _Century Magazine_). Among his poems are "Kathrina"
and "Bitter-Sweet." _Gradatim_, 200.

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Born at Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809; died
there Oct. 7, 1894. Physician; professor of anatomy and physiology in
the medical school of Harvard University 1847-82. Some of his
best-known poems are "Bill and Joe," "The Deacon's Masterpiece," and
"The Chambered Nautilus." Of his three novels "Elsie Venner" is the
best known. His "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," "Professor at the
Breakfast-Table," "Poet at the Breakfast-Table," and "Over the
Tea-Cups" all appeared originally in the _Atlantic Monthly_. _The
Chambered Nautilus_, 30.

HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH. Born at Southgate, Eng., Oct. 19, 1784; died
at Putney, Eng., Aug. 28, 1859. Imprisoned for radical political
views; writer of popular poems and essays, _Abou Ben Adhem_, 133.