A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849-1910), published in 1910. Most of the entries consist of only one paragraph but some entries, like William Shakespeare's, are quite lengthy.

The book is notable for being the 5,000th e-book to be provided by the Distributed Proofreaders project, to Project Gutenberg. It was released on August 21, 2004.

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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, available freely at Project Gutenberg


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