E. S. Dallas
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Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1828-1879) was a Victorian-era writer and journalist for The Times.
[edit] Life
E. S. Dallas was born on 1828 in Jamaica. He was the elder son of Jamaican physician, John Dallas. He entered and was educated at the University of Edinburgh in 1846. After earning his Bachelor's degree, he was a journalist for The Times for many years, and a special correspondent at Paris in 1867 and 1870. He contributed articles to the Daily News, the Saturday Review, the Pall Mall Gazette and The World. He edited Once a Week in 1868. He also published four books, two of which he authored. He was married in Scotland, December 1853 and again in London on July 12, 1855 to the well-known actress Isabella Glyn, (the widow of Edward Wills). Their marriage was dissolved in the divorce court in London on the wife's petition May 10, 1874. Dallas died at 88 Newman st. Oxford st. on January 17, 1879. He was 51 years old when he died.
[edit] Books
- Poetics, an Essay on Poetry - on the aesthetics of poetry, published in 1852.
- The Gay Science - in 2 volumes, on the aesthetics of poetry, published in 1866.
[edit] References
- Modern English Biography, Volume I (A -- H), ed. by Frederick Boase, London: Frank Cass & Co. LTD, 1965.
