E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Wright, Thomas
(b. Ludlow, Shropshire, April 21st, 1810; d. Chelsea, December 23rd, 1877). “Queen Elizabeth and her Times” (1838); “England Under the House of Hanover” (1848); “The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon” (1852); “Domestic Manners in England during the Middle Ages” (1861); “Essays on Archæological Subjects” (1861); “A History of Caricature and the Grotesque in Literature and Art” (1865); “Womankind in Western Europe” (1869), etc., besides editions of “The Canterbury Tales,” “The Vision of Piers Plowman,” etc.
