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3iographical History Of England: 3RANGER, James (1723-1776), English biogra-jher and print collector, from whose name the :erm "grangerizing" is derived. He was born at ihaston, Dorsetshire, studied at Christ Church, Oxford, took holy orders, and spent his life as dear of Shiplake, Oxfordshire. He wrote A 3iographical History of England . . . with a pref-ice showing the utility of a collection of engraved portraits, etc. (1769). By 1824 other editors had added enough biographies and por-raits to swell the work to six volumes.
Goldsmith's historical writings include the 2-volume History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son (1764), the 4-volume History of England (1771), a 2-volume history of Rome (1769), and a 2-volume work on Greece (1774). None of these were products of original research; Goldsmith merely read through the authoritative histories in print and digested them in his own more readable style.
Green then attempted a history for scholars, of which only two parts were published: The Making of England (1881), which covers the period from the departure of the Romans to the consolidation of England under Egbert; and The Conquest of England (1883), which ends with the arrival of the Normans. The latter, edited by his wife Alice Sophia Amelia Green (q.v.), was published after his death on March 7, 1883, at Menton, France. |
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