John Dickenson

John Dickenson (c.1570–1636)[1] was an English author, known as a romance-writer. He was a follower in the school of John Lyly and Robert Greene. He worked for a time in the Low Countries, and Germany. Employed by George Gilpin and Ralph Winwood, he may have been a spy, and certainly was an agent of the government on the ground at the time of the War of the Jülich succession of 1610. He was employed on further missions, in Poland and Scandinavia.[1]

Works

He was the author of:

According to recent scholarship, Dickenson translated from French Louis Leroy's edition of Aristotle's Politics in 1598, as Aristotles Politiques.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Alexander, Gavin, "Dickenson, John", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7601 
  2. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Dickenson, John (fl. 1594), romance-writer, by A. H. Bullen. Published 1888.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainDictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.