Bibliography
- Contemporary Socialism (1884; and new editions 1891, 1901, 1908)
- 'The Eight Hours Day in Victoria' (1891), in: The Economic Journal (EJ), Vol. 1, pp. 15–42 (in
Wikisource) - Eight Hours for Work (1894)
- Life of Adam Smith (1895)
John Rae (1845 – 1915) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. The long-time editor of The Contemporary Review , and contributor to The British Quarterly Review , he became famous for his 1895 biography of Adam Smith, Life of Adam Smith, which replaced the Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith of 1811, by Dugald Stewart, as the standard Smith reference. [1]
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Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Also known as "The Father of Economics" or "The Father of Capitalism", he wrote two classic works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, often abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. In his work, Smith introduced his theory of absolute advantage.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot, known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.
Goldwin Smith was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada. In the 1860s he also taught at Cornell University in the United States.
John Churton Collins was a British literary critic.
Sir Walter Besant was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".
Francis William Lauderdale Adams was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.
John Mackinnon Robertson was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918. Robertson was best known as an advocate of the Christ myth theory.
Henry Duff Traill, was a British author and journalist.
George William Erskine Russell PC, known as George W. E. Russell, was a British biographer, memoirist and Liberal politician.
Charles Norris Williamson (1859–1920) was a British writer, motoring journalist and founder of the Black and White who was perhaps best known for his collaboration with his wife, Alice Muriel Williamson, in a number of novels and travelogues.
Howard Overing Sturgis was an English-language novelist who wrote about same-sex love. Of American parentage, he lived and worked in Britain.
Albert Shaw was an American journalist and academic.
Pearl Mary Teresa Richards was an Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen-name of John Oliver Hobbes. Though her work fell out of print in the twentieth-century, her first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling eighty-thousand copies in only a few weeks.
David Christie Murray was an English journalist, who turned to writing fiction.
James Macaulay was a Scottish medical man, journalist and author, best known as an anti-vivisectionist and periodical editor.
Herbert Vivian was an English journalist, author and newspaper owner, who befriended Lord Randolph Churchill, Charles Russell, Leopold Maxse and others in the 1880s. He campaigned for Irish Home Rule and was private secretary to Wilfrid Blunt, poet and writer, who stood in the 1888 Deptford by-election. Vivian's writings caused a rift between Oscar Wilde and James NcNeil Whistler. In the 1890s, Vivian was a leader of the Neo-Jacobite Revival, a monarchist movement keen to restore a Stuart to the British throne and replace the parliamentary system. Before the First World War he was friends with Winston Churchill and was the first journalist to interview him. Vivian lost as Liberal candidate for Deptford in 1906. As an extreme monarchist throughout his life, he became in the 1920s a supporter of fascism. His several books included the novel The Green Bay Tree with William Henry Wilkins. He was a noted Serbophile; his writings on the Balkans remain influential.
Ian Simpson Ross was a Scottish academic and biographer of Adam Smith.
Oscar Wilson was an English painter and illustrator who trained in both London and Belgium. He was a painter, illustrator, and joke cartoonist.
Lura Eugenie Brown Smith was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and author. She wrote short stories, poems, and miscellany, and did editorial work in newspapers. She was the author of Victory's Divorcement, On the Track and Off the Train, and The Autocrat of Arkansas.
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