A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Underwood, Francis Henry

by John William Cousin

Underwood, Francis Henry (1825-1894).—Critic and biographer, b. in Massachusetts, was American Consul at Glasgow and Leith. He wrote Hand-books of English Literature, Builders of American Literature, etc., some novels, Lord of Himself, Man Proposes, and Dr. Gray's Quest, and biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier