James Ashcroft Noble

NOBLE, James Ashcroft. b. Liverpool, 25 June 1844; d. Wandsworth, London, 3 April 1896. Noble became a literary critic and an active man of letters in Victorian England: he wrote essays for The Spectator, produced a book on shorthand, and became the editor of a periodical, The Illustrator. Among his many books were The Pelican Papers: Reminiscences and Remains of a Dweller in the Wilderness (1873), Morality in English Fiction (Liverpool, 1886), The Sonnet in England, & other essays (1893), and Impressions and Memories (1895). His poems were published as Verses of a Prose Writer (1887). He lived and worked in London, returning to his native Lancashire at Birkdale, Southport, in 1884...