Author:William Lucas Collins
British theologian, Anglican priest and essayist
This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "W. L. C."
Works edit
- The Luck of Ladysmede (1860)
- The Education Question (1863)
- Etoniana Ancient and Modern; being notes of the History and Traditions of Eton College (1866)
- The Public Schools: Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury. Harrow, Rugby: notes of their History and Traditions (1867)
- Montaigne, in 'Foreign Classics for English Readers' (1870)
- La Fontaine and other French Fabulists, in 'Foreign Classics' (1882)
Blackwood's Philosophical Classics for English Readers edit
- Butler (1881) (transcription project)
Ancient Classics for English Readers edit
- Homer: The Iliad (1870)
- Homer: The Odyssey (1870)
- Livy (1870)
- Cicero (1871)
- Virgil (1870)
- Aristophanes (1872)
- Plautus and Terence (1873)
- Lucian (1873)
- Thucydides (1878), Supplementary Series
Translations edit
- "The Clock and the Sun-Dial", by Antoine Houdar de La Motte. An argosy of fables, 1921.
Works about Collins edit
- "Collins, William Lucas," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "Collins, William Lucas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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