Author talk:Hugh Macdonald

Sources

Name: Hugh Macdonald
Birth - Death: 1817-1860
Source Citation:

• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
• Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. First edition. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1967. (ChhPo)
• The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1, From the beginnings to 1900. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Contains abstracts of the biographies found in The Dictionary of National Biography (21 volumes, New York: Macmillan Co.; London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908). (DcNaB)

Allibone's supplement

Macdonald, Hugh, 1817-1860, b. in Glasgow, of humble parentage; was early sent to work at the block-printing trade, and afterwards began to contribute poems and descriptive articles to the Glasgow Citizen and to other journals. 1. Rambles round Glasgow, Descriptive, Historical, and Traditional, Glasgow, 1856, 12mo; new ed., 1860. 2. Days at the Coast: Frith of Clyde Sketches, Glasgow, 1857, 12mo; new ed., 1874. 3. Poems; with Memoir, 1863.