Francis Henry Underwood

Francis Henry Underwood

Francis Henry Underwood (1825 - 1894), Massachusetts-born critic and biographer, was American Consul at Glasgow and Leith in Scotland.

He wrote "Hand-books of English Literature","Builders of American Literature","Lord of Himself", "Man Proposes", and "Dr. Gray's Quest", as well as biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier, and the novel "Cloud Pictures."


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