John Dickenson (author)

Not to be confused with John Dickinson (author).

John Dickenson (c. 1570–1636)[1] was an English author, known as a romance-writer. He was a follower in the school of John Lyly and Robert Greene. He worked for a time in the Low Countries, and Germany. Employed by George Gilpin and Ralph Winwood, he may have been a spy, and certainly was an agent of the government on the ground at the time of the War of the Jülich succession of 1610. He was employed on further missions, in Poland and Scandinavia.[1]

Works

He was the author of:

According to recent scholarship, Dickenson translated from French Louis Leroy's edition of Aristotle's Politics in 1598, as Aristotles Politiques.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Alexander, Gavin. "Dickenson, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7601. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2.  "Dickenson, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Attribution

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