Author: Browne, Thomas
Biography:
BROWNE, Thomas (1771-98: Hollis)
Son of a clergyman, born in Lastingham, Yorkshire, and educated at the grammar school in Hull. He taught school for a time but in 1797 moved to Hull to be the editor of the Hull Advertiser. He was then ordained and married, but died at the age of 26, in 1798. The volume of his poems published posthumously with a memoir in 1800 was intended to raise money for his widow and their child. Two poems, "The Invasion" and "Awd Daisy" were reprinted in some editions of Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect after 1800. (John Merritt, "Preface," in Browne's Poems [1800]) HJ
Books written (3):
London/ Liverpool/ Hull: Vernor and Hood/ Merritt and Wright/ Thomas Browne, 1800
New York: William Durell, 1801
Philadelphia/ Baltimore/ Washington City [DC]: John Conrad and Co./ M. and J. Conrad and Co./ Rapine, Conrad and Co., 1801