A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1819–1881).—Novelist and poet, b. in Massachusetts, helped to found and ed. Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote Bitter Sweet (1858), Kathrina, etc.