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http://garamond.stanford.edu/depts/spc/johnson/images.html

added 16 April 2005

Edmund Burke Ireland 1729-1797

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/31/
100-best-nonfiction-books-reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france-edmund-burke

Horace Walpole UK 1717-1797

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/restoration/restoration_2004/horace_walpole.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/restoration/profiles/?2

Edward Gibbon 1737-1794

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/04/
100-best-nonfiction-books-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-edward-gibbon

Robert Burns 1759-1796

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/robertburns

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/31/robert-burns-poetry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jan/01/robert-burns-letters

http://burnsletters.wordpress.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/robertburns

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/25/historybooks.comment

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/19/poetry.classics

Samuel Johnson Byname Dr. Johnson 1709-1784

http://garamond.stanford.edu/depts/spc/johnson/images.html

added 16.4.2005

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/johnson/sjov.html

http://www.nbbl.demon.co.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/classics.wordsandlanguage

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/classics.wordsandlanguage1

http://garamond.stanford.edu/depts/spc/johnson/intro.html

Thomas Gray 1716-1771

http://www.thomasgray.org/

Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne

Samuel Richardson 1689-1761

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/14/
100-best-books-clarissa-samuel-richardson

George Berkeley Ireland, England 1685-1753

George Berkeley (...)

owned slaves

in colonial Rhode Island

and wrote pamphlets

supportive of slavery.

A fellow of Trinity

and the former librarian there,

Berkeley is regarded by academics

as one of the most influential thinkers

of the early modern period.

Some view

his philosophical and scientific ideas

on perception and reality

as foreshadowing the work of Albert Einstein.

But last month,

the governing board of Trinity,

Ireland’s oldest university,

announced that it had voted

to “dename” the library

after months of research and consultation

by a group established

to review problematic legacies.

The group based its recommendations

on an analysis of historical records,

already in the public domain,

showing that Berkeley had purchased

several enslaved people for a plantation

that he operated

while living in Rhode Island

from 1729 to 1732.

Already a noted scholar,

Berkeley went to America

with plans to use wealth

from the plantation,

as well as public donations,

to open a school in Bermuda

that would take

Native American children

— by force if need be —

and convert them to Christianity.

His plans never materialized,

however,

and Berkeley donated his farm,

along with its enslaved people,

to Yale University before returning

to Britain and then Ireland,

where he eventually became

the Anglican Church’s

Lord Bishop of Cloyne.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/
world/europe/george-berkeley-trinity-college-dublin.html

Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

pseudonyms:

Isaac Bickerstaff, A Dissenter,

A Person of Quality,

A Person of Honour, M.B. Drapier,

T.R.D.J.S.D.O.P.I.I.

(The Reverend Doctor Jonathan Switft,

Dean of Partick's in Ireland)

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/swiftov.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/jonathanswift

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/
100-novels-swift-gullivers-travels-mccrum

the Scriblerus Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriblerus_Club

Alexander Pope 1688-1744

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope

John Gay 1685-1732

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay

Daniel Defoe 1660 - 1731

original surname Foe,

Defoe altered it in 1703

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe

18th and 19th century journals

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

John Evelyn 1620-1706

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Evelyn

Samuel Pepys 1633-1703

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pepys_samuel.shtml

Henry Vaughan 1621-1695

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/09/
poem-of-the-week-henry-vaughan

John Bunyan 1628-1688

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/23/
100-best-novels-pilgrims-progress

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester 1647-1680

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/feb/25/
poetry-wilmot-earl-rochester

John Milton 1608-1674

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/
books/review/paradise-lost-manuscript-john-milton.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/
books/review/making-darkness-light-john-milton-joe-moshenska.html

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