Author:John Skelton (1831-1897)

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John Skelton
(1831–1897)

John Skelton

Works

• Early English Life in the Drama (1857) in Edinburgh Essays
• Nugæ Criticæ (1862)
• Thalatta, or the Great Commoner (1862)
• Edited second edition of Treatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland (1864)
• John Dryden, "In Defence" (1865)
• A Campaigner at Home (1865)
• Benjamin Disraeli: the Past and the Future (1868)
• The Great Lord Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (1868)
• The Boarding-out of Pauper Children in Scotland (1876)
• The Impeachment of Mary Stuart (1876)
• Edited The Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianæ by Christopher North (1876)
• The Crookit Meg: a Story of the Year One (1880), originally serialized in Fraser's Magazine
• Essays of Shirley (1882)
• Essays in Romance and Studies from Life (1883)
• The Scotland of Mary Stewart in Blackwood's Magazine and Volume 171 of Littell's Living Age (1886)
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
• Maitland of Lethington and the Scotland of Mary Stuart (1887–1888)
• Mary Stuart in Scotland - Part I in Blackwood's Magazine and Volume 178 of Littell's Living Age (1888)
• "The Casket Letters and Mary Stuart" in Blackwood's Magazine, 146 (890) (1889) (transcription project)
• The Local Government (Scotland) Act in relation to Public Health (1890)
• Introduction to Royal House of Stuart (1890)
• The Handbook of Public Health (1890–1891)
• Mary Stuart (1893)
• The Table Talk of Shirley (1895)
• Summers and Winters at Balmawhapple (1896)
• Possibly Spring Songs by a Western Highlander

Works about Skelton

• "Skelton, John (1831-1897)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Skelton, Sir John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)