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JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHNSON, See also:RICHARD (1573–1659 ?) , See also:English See also:romance writer, was baptized in See also:London on the 24th of May 1573. His most famous romance is The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom (1596 ?). The success of this See also:book was so See also:great that the author added a second and a third See also:part in 16o8 and 1616. His other stories include: The Nine Worthies of London (1592); The Pleasant Walks of Moorefields (1607); The Pleasant Conceites of Old Hobson (1607), the See also:hero being a well-known See also:haberdasher in the Poultry; The Most Pleasant See also:History of Tom a Lincolne (1607); A Remembrance of . . . See also:Robert See also:Earle of See also:Salisbury (1612); Looke on Me, London (1613); The History of Tom Thumbe (1621). The See also:Crown See also:Garland of See also:Golden See also:Roses . . . set forth in Many Pleasant new Songs and Sonnets (1612) was reprinted for the See also:Percy Society (1842 and 1845).

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