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See also:PAYN, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1830-1898) , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at See also:Cheltenham, on the 28th of See also:February 1830, his See also:father being clerk to the See also:Thames Commissioners and treasurer to the See also:county of See also:Berkshire. He was educated at See also:Eton, and afterwards entered the Military See also:Academy at See also:Woolwich; but his See also:health was not equal to the demands of a military career, and he proceeded in 1847 to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He was among the most popular men of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and served as See also:president of the See also:Union. Before going to Cambridge he had published some verses in See also:Leigh See also:Hunt's See also:Journal, and while still an undergraduate put forth a See also:volume of Stories from See also:Boccaccio in 1852, and in 1853 a volume of Poems. In the same See also:year he See also:left Cambridge, and shortly afterwards married See also:Miss Louisa See also:Adelaide Edlin, See also:sister of See also:Sir See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Edlin. He then settled down in the See also:Lake See also:district to a See also:literary career and contributed regularly to See also:Household Words and See also:Chambers's Journal. In 1858 he removed to See also:Edinburgh to See also:act as See also:joint-editor of the latter periodical. He became See also:sole editor in 1859, and conducted the See also:magazine with much success for fifteen years. He removed to See also:London in 1861. In the pages of the Journal he published in 1864 his most popular See also:story, Lost Sir Massingberd. From this time he was always engaged in novel-See also:writing, among the most popular of his productions being Married Beneath Him (1865), Carlyon's Year (1868), By See also:Proxy (1878), and The Talk of the See also:Town (1885). In 1883 he succeeded See also:Leslie See also:Stephen as editor of the See also:Corn/till Magazine and continued in the See also:post until the breakdown of his health in 1896. He was also literary adviser to Messrs See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, See also:Elder & See also:Company. His publications included a Handbook to the English Lakes (1859), and various volumes of occasional essays, See also:Maxims by a See also:Man of the See also:World (1869), Some Private Views (1881), Some Literary Recollections (1884). A See also:posthumous See also:work, The Backwater of See also:Life (1899), revealed much of his own See also:personality in a See also:mood of kindly, sensible reflection upon See also:familiar topics. He died in London, on the 25th of See also:March 1898.
A See also:biographical introduction to The Backwater of Life was furnished by Sir Leslie Stephen.
End of Article: PAYN, JAMES (1830-1898)
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