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Turner, Sharon
(b. London, September 24th, 1768; d. London, February 13th, 1847). “History of the Anglo-Saxons” (1799–1805); “A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Antient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems” (1803); “A History of England from the Norman Conquest to 1509” (1814–23); “Prolusions on the Present Greatness of Britain, on Modern Poetry, and on the Present Aspect of the World” (1819); a “History of the Reign of Henry VIII.” (1826); a “History of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth” (1829); “The Sacred History of the World” (1832); and “Richard III.,” a poem (1845).
