A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Part 62

VIZETELLY, ERNEST ALFRED (1853).--Novelist, etc. _The Scorpion_ (1894), _A Path of Thorns_ (1901), _The Lover's Progress_ (1902), has ed. most of E. Zola's works, etc.

WALFORD, MRS. LUCY BETHIA (1845).--Novelist. _Mr. Smith_ (1874), _Pauline_ (1877), _Troublesome Daughters_ (1880), _The Baby's Grandmother_ (1885), _The History of a Week_ (1886), _A Stiff-necked Generation_ (1888), _A Sage of Sixteen_ (1889), _The Mischief of Monica_ (1891), _The Matchmaker_ (1893), _Frederick_ (1895), _The Intruders_ (1898), _A Dream's Fulfilment_ (1892), _The Enlightenment of Olivia_ (1907), etc.

WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL, F.R.S., LL.D., etc. (1823).--Naturalist and evolutionist. _Travels on the Amazon_ (1853), _Palm Trees of the Amazon_ (1853), _The Malay Archipelago_ (1869), _Natural Selection_ (1870), _The Geographical Distribution of Animals_ (1876), _Tropical Nature_ (1878), _Australasia_ (1879), _Island Life_ (1880), _Darwinism_ (1889), _Studies Scientific and Social_ (1900), _Man's Place in the Universe_ (1903), _My Life_ (1905), etc.

WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM, Litt.D., LL.D. (1837).--Historian and critic.

_The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War_ (1869), _A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne_ (1875), _Lives_ of Chaucer (1880) and d.i.c.kens (1882) (English Men of Letters Series), _The Counter Reformation_ (1888), translated Curtius's _History of Greece_, ed. Pope's poetical works (Globe), Poems of John Byrom, and various other works, etc.

WARD, MRS. HUMPHREY (ARNOLD) (1851).--Novelist. _Milly and Olly_ (1881), _Miss Bretherton_ (1886), _Robert Elsmere_ (1888), _The History of David Grieve_ (1892), _Marcella_ (1894), _Sir George Tressady_ (1896), _Helbeck of Bannisdale_ (1898), _Lady Rose's Daughter_ (1903), _The Marriage of William Ashe_ (1905) _Fenwick's Career_ (1906); plays, _Eleanor_ (1902), _Agatha_ (1905), etc.

WATSON, HENRY BRERETON MARRIOTT (1863).--Novelist, etc. _Lady Faintheart_ (1890), _The Web of the Spider_ (1891), _Diogenes of London_ (1893), _At the First Corner_ (1895), _The Heart of Miranda_ (1897), _The Princess Xenia_ (1899), _The House Divided_ (1901), _Captain Fortune_ (1904), _Twisted Eglantine_ (1905), _The Privateers_ (1907), etc.

WATSON, WILLIAM, LL.D. (1858).--Poet. _The Prince's Quest_ (1880), _Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature_ (1884), _Wordsworth's Grave_ (1890), _Lachrymae Musarum_ (1892), _Lyric Love_ (1892), _The Eloping Angels_ (1893), _Excursions in Criticism_ (1893), _Odes and other Poems_ (1894), _The Father of the Forest_ (1895), _The Purple East_ (1896), _The Year of Shame_ (1896), _The Hope of the World_ (1897), _Collected Poems_ (1898), _Ode on the Coronation of King Edward VII._ (1902), _For England_ (1903), and _New Poems_ (1909).

WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE (1832).--Poet, novelist, and critic. _The Coming of Love_, _Rhona Boswell's Story_ (1897), _Aylwin_ (1898), _Christmas at the Mermaid_, _The Renascence of Wonder_ (1903), ed. Borrow's _Lavengro_ and _Romany Rye_; article _Poetry_ in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, and many other articles in the same.

WAUGH, ARTHUR (1866).--Critic. _Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Study_ (1892), _Robert Browning_ (in Westminster Biographies), has ed. Johnson's _Lives of the Poets_, d.i.c.kens, Milton, Lamb, Tennyson, etc.

WEDMORE, FREDERICK (1844).--Writer on art, etc. _Pastorals of France_, _Renunciations_, _English Episodes_, _Orgeas and Miradou_, _Studies in English Art_, _Meryon_, _Etching in England_, _Whistler's Etchings_, _Fine Prints_, _On Books and Arts_, _The Collapse of the Penitent_ (novel), etc.

WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE, B.Sc., etc. (1866).--Novelist. _Select Conversations with an Uncle_ (1895), _The Time Machine_ (1895), _The Stolen Bacillus_ (1895), _The Wonderful Visit_, _The Wheels of Chance_, _The Island of Dr. Moreau_ (1896), _The Invisible Man_ (1897), _The War of the Worlds_ (1898), _When the Sleeper Wakes_ (1899), _The First Men in the Moon_ (1901), _Mankind in the Making_ (1903), _The Food of the G.o.ds_ (1904), _A Modern Utopia_ (1905), _The War in the Air_ (1908), _Tono-Bungay_, _Ann Veronica_ (1909), etc.

WENDELL, BARRETT (1855).--American critic, etc. _William Shakespeare_ (1894), _A Literary History of America_ (1900), _Raleigh in Guiana_, etc.

(1902), _The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature_ (1904), _The France of To-day_ (1907), etc.

WERNER, ALICE (1859).--Miscellaneous writer. _A Time and Times_ (poems) (1886), _O'Driscoll's Weird_ (1892), _The Humour of Italy_ (1892), _The Humour of Holland_ (1893), _The Captain of the Locusts_ (1899), _Chapinga's While Man_ (1901), _Native Races of British Central Africa_ (1906).

WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN (1855).--Novelist. _The House of the Wolf_ (1890), _Francis Cludde_ (1891), _A Gentleman of France_ (1893), _Under the Red Robe_ (1894), _My Lady Rotha_ (1894), _The Red c.o.c.kade_ (1895), _The Man in Black_ (1896), _Shrewsbury_ (1897), _The Castle Inn_ (1898), _Sophia_ (1900), _The Long Night_ (1903), _The Abbess of Vlaye_ (1904), _Starvecrow Farm_ (1905), _Laid up in Lavender_ (1907).

WHARTON, EDITH (JONES) (1862).--American novelist. _The Great Inclination_ (1889), _A Gift from the Grave_, _Crucial Instances_ (1901), _The Valley of Decision_ (1902), _Sanctuary_ (1903), _Italian Backgrounds_ (1905), _The House of Mirth_ (1905), _Madame de Treymes_ (1907), _The Fruit of the Tree_ (1907).

WHIBLEY, CHARLES.--Critic and reviewer. _A Book of Scoundrels_, _Studies in Frankness_, _The Pageantry of Life_, _Thackeray_ (1903), _William Pitt_ (1906).

WHISHAW, FRED.--Novelist. _The Emperor's Englishman_, _Out of Doors in Tsarland_, _Boris the Bear-Hunter_, _The Romance of the Woods_, _Harold the Norseman_ (1896), _The White Witch_ (1897), _A Race for Life_ (1898), _The Diamond of Evil_ (1902), _A Splendid Impostor_ (1903), _The Great Green G.o.d_ (1906), _The Secret Syndicate_ (1907).

WHITE, WILLIAM HALE (_c._ 1830).--Novelist, etc. _The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford_ (1885), _Mark Rutherford's Deliverance_ (1885), _The Revolution in Tanner's Lane_ (1887), _Miriam's Schooling_ (1890), _Catherine Furze_ (1889), _Clara Hopgood_ (1896), translated Spinoza's _Ethics_, _Pages from a Journal_ (1900).

WHITEING, RICHARD (1840).--Novelist, etc. _The Democracy_ (1876), _No. 5 John Street_ (1899), _The Yellow Van_ (1903), _Ring in the New_ (1906), _All Moonshine_ (1907).

WHITNEY, ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) (1824).--American novelist. _Faith Gartney's Girlhood_, _The Gayworthys_, _Hitherto_, _Leslie Goldthwaite_, _Real Folks_, _Homespun Yarns_; poems, _Pansies_, _Daffodils_, _Holy Tides_, _Bird Talk_, etc.

WICKSTEED, REV. PHILIP HENRY (1844).--Writer on Dante, political economy, etc. _Translation of the Bible for Young People_ (1882), _Alphabet of Economic Science_ (1888), _Henrik Ibsen_ (1892), _Dante, Six Sermons_ (1895), _Trans.: De Witte's Select Essays on Dante_ (with C.M. Laurence) (1898), _Trans.: Dante's Paradiso_ (1899), _Dante and Del Virgilio_ (with E.G. Gardner) (1901), _Studies in Theology_ (with J.E. Carpenter) (1903), _Further Translations of Dante's Convivio_ (1903), _Early Lives of Dante_ (1904), _Dante's Latin Works_ (1904), etc.

WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS (MRS. GEORGE C. RIGGS).--American novelist.

_Timothy's Quest_, _Polly Oliver's Problem_, _The Story of Patsy_, _Penelope's Experiences_, _Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm_, _Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch_, etc.

WILKINS, MARY ELEANOR (MRS. C.M. FREEMAN) (1862).--American story-writer.

_A New England Nun_, _Young Lucretia_, _A Humble Romance_, _A Faraway Melody_, _Giles Cory_, _The Wind in the Rosebush_, _The Debtor_, etc.

"WINTER, JOHN STRANGE," (_see_ MRS. ARTHUR STANNARD).

WINTER, WILLIAM (1836).--American critic, etc. _Shakespeare's England_, _Grey Days and Gold_, _Old Shrines and Ivy Brown Heath and Blue Bells_, _Life and Art of Edwin Booth_, _The Stage Life of Mary Anderson_, etc.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS, LL.D., etc.--English scholar. Joint ed. of Globe Shakespeare and of the Cambridge Shakespeare. _Bible Word-Book_ and many other English Cla.s.sics, _Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald_ (1889), _The Works of Edward Fitzgerald_ (7 vols. 1903), etc.

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865).--Poet. _The Wanderings of Oisin_ (1889), _The Countess Kathleen_ (1892), _The Celtic Twilight_ (1893), _A Book of Irish Verse_ (1895), _Poems_ (1895), _The Secret Rose_ (1897), _The Wind Among the Reeds_ (1899), _The Shadowy Waters_ (1900), _Ideas of Good and Evil_ (1903), etc.

ZANGWILL, ISRAEL (1864).--Novelist. _Children of the Ghetto_ (1892), _Merely Mary Ann_ (1893), _Ghetto Tragedies_ (1893), _The King of Schnorrers_ (1894), _Dreamers of the Ghetto_ (1898), _They that Walk in Darkness_ (1899), _The Mantle of Elijah_ (1900), _The Grey Wig_ (1903), _Blind Children_ (verse) (1903), _Ghetto Comedies_ (1907); plays, _Children of the Ghetto_, _The Moment of Death_, _The Revolted Daughter_, _Merely Mary Ann_, _The Serio-Comic Governess_, etc.