Author:James Sheridan Knowles

Sir James Sheridan Knowles
(1784–1862)

Sir James Sheridan Knowles

Works

Poetry

• The Welch Harper (1796)
• Fugitive Pieces (1810)
• Leo, or the Gipsy (1810)
• Brian Boroihme, or the Maid of Erin (1811)
• A Masque on the Death of Sir Walter Scott (1832)
• The Bridal (1837)
• True unto Death (1863)

Prose

• George Lovell (1846)
• Fortescue (1847)
• The Rock of Rome, or the Arch Heresy (1849)
• The Idol Demolished by its own Priest (1851)
• The Gospel attributed to Matthew is the Record of the whole original Apostlehood (1855)

Plays

• Caius Gracchus (1815)
• Virginius (1820)
• William Tell (1825)
  • "Tell's Speech"
• Alfred the Great, or the Patriot King (1831)
• The Hunchback (1832)
• The Wife, a Tale of Mantua (1833)
• The Beggar of Bethnal Green (1834)
• The Daughter (1837)
• The Love Chase (1837)
• Woman's Wit (1838)
• The Maid of Mariendorpt (1838)
• Love (1839)
• John of Procida, or the Bridals of Messina (1840)
• Old Maids (1841)
• The Rose of Arragon (1842)
• The Secretary (1843)

Works about Knowles

• "Knowles, James Sheridan," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Knowles, James Sheridan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Knowles, James Sheridan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

On his works

• "Virginius," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)