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JOHN COLIN DUNLOP (1785-1842)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 681 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:COLIN See also:DUNLOP (1785-1842)  , Scottish See also:man of letters, was See also:born on the 30th of See also:December 1785 . In 1816 he became See also:sheriff of See also:Renfrewshire, and retained this See also:office until his See also:death at See also:Edinburgh, on the 26th of See also:January (according to others, in See also:February) 1842 . The See also:work by which he is best known, and which will always hold an See also:honourable See also:place in See also:English literature, is his See also:History of Fiction (1814; new edition, 1888, with notes by H . See also:Wilson, in See also:Bohn's "See also:Standard Library") . In spite of the somewhat contemptuous notices in See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine (See also:September 1824) and the Quarterly See also:Review (See also:July 1815), it may be pronounced the best See also:book on the subject in English . F . Liebrecht, by whom it was translated into See also:German (1851) with valuable notes, describes it as the only work of its See also:kind . See also:Dunlop was also the author of A History of See also:Roman Literature (1823—1828), and of See also:Memoirs of See also:Spain during the Reigns of See also:Philip IV. and See also:Charles II . (1834) .

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