NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Harness, William, 1790-1869 NRA: Harness William (1790-1869) Curate of All Saints' Knightsbridge Shakespearean author DNB: Harness, William (1790-1869), literary scholar LBT ID: WiHarne1869 VIAF ID: 3342920 LOC ID: n88175059 | B/BAP: 1790-03-14 DIED: 1869-11-11 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
A Harrow friend and early correspondent of Byron. He later answered the poet in The Wrath of Cain (1822) and published an edition of Shakespeare
(1825) and other literary projects. Harness was a longtime friend of Mary Russell
Mitford. | |