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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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EDWAKl) A. IREEMAN. FREEMAN, Edward Augustus, an Englishhistorical writer, born at Harborne, Staffordshire,in 1823; died at Alicante, Spain, March 16, 1892.He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, ofwhich he was elected Scholar in 1841, Fellow in1845, ^^^ Honorary Fellow in 1880. He filledthe office of Examiner in the School of Law andModern History in 1857-58 and in 1863-64, andin the School of Modern History in 1873. He re-ceived the honorary degree of D.C.L. from theUniversity of Oxford in 1870, and that of LL.D.from the University of Cambridge in 1874, wasan honorary member of numerous learned socie.ties in Europe and America, and received hono-rary decorations from several European powers.His writings, mainly upon historical and archi-tectural subjects, are very numerous. Amongthem are History of Architecture (1849); Essays onWindow Tracery (1850); The History and Conquestsof the Saracens (1856); History of the Federal Gov-ernment (Vol. I., 1863); History of the Norman Con-gue

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