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This category lists articles which were incorporates text copied from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. The biography is in the Public Domain and served by Project Gutenberg [1]. There are copies of the article on Wikisource as sub-pages under Wikisource:A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

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