''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
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's, are quite lengthy.
[ ''A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature'', John William Cousin (1849–1910), published in 1910]
The book was the 5,000th
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