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GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK (1798-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE LILLIE See also:CRAIK (1798-1866)  , See also:English See also:man of letters, the son of a schoolmaster, was See also:born at Kennoway, Fifeshire, in 1798 . He studied at the university of St See also:Andrews with the intention of entering the See also:church, but, altering his plans, became the editor of a See also:local newspaper, and went to See also:London in 1824 to devote himself to literature . He became connected with a See also:short-lived See also:literary See also:paper called the Verulam; in 1831 he published his Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties among the See also:works of the Society for the See also:Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; he contributed a considerable number of See also:biographical and See also:historical articles to the See also:Penny Cyclopaedia; and he edited the Pictorial See also:History of See also:England, himself See also:writing much of the See also:work . In 1844 he published his History of Literature and Learning in England from the See also:Norman See also:Conquest to the See also:Present See also:Time, illustrated by extracts . See also:Craik is best known for his abridged version of this work, The History of English Literature and the English See also:Language (1861), which passed through several See also:editions . In the next See also:year appeared his See also:Spenser and his See also:Poetry, an abstract of Spenser's poems, with historical and biographical notes and frequent quotations; and in 1847 his See also:Bacon, his Writings and his See also:Philosophy, a work of a similar See also:kind . The two last-mentioned works appeared among See also:Knight's Weekly Volumes . Two years later Craik obtained the See also:chair of history and English literature at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Belfast, a position which he held till his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 25th of See also:June 1866 . He had married See also:Miss See also:Jeannette See also:Dempster (d . 1856) in 1826, and his daughter, Georgiana See also:Marion Craik (Mrs A . W . May), wrote over See also:thirty novels, of which Lost and Won (1859) was the best .

Besides the works already noticed, Craik published the History of See also:

British See also:Commerce from the Earliest Times (1844), See also:Romance of the See also:Peerage (1848–1850) and The English of See also:Shakespeare (1856) .

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