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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Thomas Miller (1807–1874)

Miller, Thomas. An English poet, novelist, and writer on rural life; born at Gainsborough, 1807; died in London, Oct. 24, 1874. He supported himself as a basket-maker, till Rogers the poet enabled him to open a bookstore in London. He wrote: ‘Royston Gower’ (1838), a novel; ‘Rural Sketches’ (1839), in verse; ‘Gideon Giles, the Roper’ (1840) and ‘Godfrey Malvern’ (1843), novels; ‘History of the Anglo-Saxons’ (1848; four editions since); etc. With G. W. M. Reynolds, he wrote Vol. v. of the ‘Mysteries of London.’