E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Howitt, William
(b. Heanon, Derbyshire, 1795; d. March 3rd, 1879). “The Book of the Season” (1831); “The History of Priestcraft” (1833); “The Rural Life of England” (1837); “Student Life in Germany” (1841); “The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany” (1842); “The Aristocracy of England” (1846); “The Haunts and Homes of British Poets” (1847); “The Man of the People” (1860); “The Ruined Castles and Abbeys of England” (1861); “The History of the Supernatural” (1863), “The Mad War Planet, and other Poems” (1871), etc.
