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Author Jenkins, Ellen J.

Title Eighteenth-Century British historians / Ellen J. Jenkins.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2007.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 336
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 336.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents John Aikin (1747-1822) -- Mary Astell (1666-1731) -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) -- Thomas Birch (1705-1766) -- William Blackstone (1723-1780) -- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Charles Burney (1726-1814) -- Thomas Carte (1686-1754) -- Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) - Anthony Collins (1676-1729) - Arthur Collins (1681?-1762) - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Laurence Echard (1670?-1730) - Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) - Andrew Fletcher (1653-1716) - Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - William Godwin (1756-1836) - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) - Thomas Gordon (ca. 1692-1750) - Richard Gough (1735-1809) - William Harris (1720-1770) - Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789) - Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) - John Home (1722-1808) - Nathaniel Hooke (1685?-1763) - David Hume (1711-1776) - White Kennett (1660-1728) - Thomas Leland (1722-1785) - Catherine Macaulay (1731-1791) - James Macpherson (1736-1796) - Conyers Middleton (1683-1750) - John Millar (1735-1801) - William Mitford (1744-1827) - Roger North (1651-1734) - Simon Ockley (1678-1720) - Charles O'Conor of Belanagare (1709 or 1710-1791) - Sylvester O' Halloran (1728-1807) - John Oldmixon (1673?-1742) - John Pinkerton (1758_1825) - Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) - William Robertson (1721-1793) - Owen Ruffhead (1723-1769) - Thomas Rymer (1643?-1713) - Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) - Adam Smith (1723-1790) - John Strype (1643-1737) - Gilbert Stuart (1743-1786) - William Stukeley (1687-1765) - Nicholas Tindal (1688-1774) - John Toland (1670-1722) - Joseph Towers (1737-1799) - John Trenchard (1662-1723) - Thomas Warton the Younger (1728-1790) - Browne Willis (1682-1760) - Francis Wise (1695-1767) - Robert Wodrow (1679-1734).
Summary Bio-bibliographical guide covering the lives and works of British historians who lived from 1700-1799, including the evolution of each author's career and his reputation.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 491 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Historians.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Historiography -- Great Britain -- History.
Historiography.
History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Gale Group.
ISBN 0787681547
9780787681548