A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

by John W. Cousin

GIBERNE, AGNES. —Novelist and scientific writer. Tales, Conlyng Castle, Life Tangles, Roy, Stories of the Abbey Precincts, Rowena (1906), Astronomy, Sun, Moon, and Stars, Starry Skies, The World's Foundations, Radiant Suns, etc.

GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836). —Dramatist and humorist. The Palace of Truth (1870), Pygmalion and Galatea (1871), Trial by Jury (1878), Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Yeomen of the Guard, Bab Ballads.

GOLLANCZ, ISRAEL, Litt.D. (1864). —Scholar. Ed. Cynewulf's Christ (1892), Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Early English Text Society), and ed. Temple Shakespeare (1894-96).

GORDON-STABLES, WILLIAM (1840). —Novelist and writer of boys' books. Has written 136 books, including Cruise of the "Snowbird," Every Inch a Sailor, Our Humble Friends and Fellow-Mortals, Pirates' Gold, Frank Hardinge, The Rose o' Allandale, etc.

GOSSE, EDMUND, LL.D. (1849). —Poet and critic. On Viol and Flute (1873), King Erik (1876), New Poems (1879), Firdausi in Exile (1885), Collected Poems (1896), Seventeenth Century Studies (1883), History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889), Secret of Narcisse (1892), The Jacobean Poets (1894), History of Modern English Literature (1897), French Profiles (1905), Father and Son (1908), and Lives of Gray (1882), Congreve (1888), P.H. Gosse (1890), Donne (1899), Jeremy Taylor (1904), C. Patmore (1905), Sir Thomas Browne (1905), etc.