Edgar Allan Poe b. 1809 - d. 1849

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George Orwell b. 1903 - d. 1950

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William Stoughton b. 1631 - d. 1701

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Author of: "New-Englands true interest; not to lie: or, A treatise declaring from the word of truth the terms on which we stand, and the tenure by which we hold our hitherto-continued precious and pleasant things. Shewing what the blessed God expecteth from his people, and what they may rationally look for from him."

Donald Grant Mitchell b. 1822 - d. 1908

American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel.

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Bibliography:

• Fresh Gleanings, or a New Sheaf from the Old Fields of Continental Europe (1847)

• Battle Summer (1850; originally planned as a two volume work, only the first was published.

• The Lorgnette, or Studies of the Town, by an Opera-Goer (1850)

• Reveries of a Bachelor (1850)

• Dream Life (1851)

• Fudge Doings (1855)

• My Farm of Edgewood (1863)

• Seven Stories (1864)

• Wet Days at Edgewood (1865)

• Doctor Johns (1866)

• Rural Studies (1867; reprinted as Out-of-Town Places in 1884)

• About Old Story Tellers (1877)

• The Woodbridge Record (1883)

• Bound Together (1884)

• English Lands, Letters, and Kings (1889–90)

• American Lands and Letters (1897–9)

Noah Webster Jr. b. 1758 - d. 1843

American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

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