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Richard Le Gallienne
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or RICHARD LE GALLIENNE (1866-), English poet and critic, was born in Liverpool on the 10th of January 1866. He started life in a business office in Liverpool, but abandoned this to turn author. My Lady's Sonnets appeared at Liverpool in 1887, and in 1889 he became for a short time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett. In the same year he published Volumes in Folio, The Book Bills of Narcissus and George Meredith: some Characteristics (new ed., 1900). He joined the staff of the Star in 1891, and wrote for various papers over the signature of "Logroller." English Poems (1892), R. L. Stevenson and other Poems (1895), a paraphrase (1897) of the Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, and Odes from the Divan of Hafiz (1903), contained some light, graceful verse, but he is best known by the fantastic prose essays and sketches of Prose Fancies (2 series, 1894-1896), Sleeping Beauty and other Prose Fancies (r ' goo), The Religion of a Literary Man (1893), The Quest of the Golden Girl (1897). The Life Romantic (1901), &c. His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894, and in 1897 he married Julie Norregard, subsequently taking up his residence in the United States. In 1906 he translated, from the Danish, Peter Nansen's Love's Trilogy.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Richard Le Gallienne'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/richard-le-gallienne.html. 1910.
