SABINE BARING-GOULD
\sɐbˈiːn bˈe͡əɹɪŋɡˈʊd], \sɐbˈiːn bˈeəɹɪŋɡˈʊd], \s_ɐ_b_ˈiː_n b_ˈeə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ_ɡ_ˈʊ_d]\
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An English antiquary and novelist; born in Exeter in 1834. He graduated from Cambridge in 1856, and has been since 1881 rector of Lew-Trenchard in Devon. He is author of "Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas" (1864); "The Book of Werewolves" (1865); "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages" (series 1 and 2, 1866-67); "Lives of the Saints" (1872-79); "Yorkshire Oddities" (2 vols., 1874); and "Germany Past and Present" (2 vols., 1879). He has written religious books, and of late years novels which have become popular. They include: "Mehalah: a Story of the Salt Marshes" (2 vols., London, 1880); "John Herring" (2 vols., 1883); "Red Spider" (1887); "Grettis the Outlaw" (1890); and "The Broom Squire" (1896).
By Charles Dudley Warner
Word of the day
Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
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