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Birth date
1823
Death date
1882
Country
England
Poems by this Poet
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The Dream of a Boy Who Lived at Nine-Elms
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The Dream of a Girl Who Lived at Seven-Oaks
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The Cat of Cats
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Polly
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Little Ditties I
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I Saw A New World
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Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World
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Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore
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Dressing the Doll
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Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree
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Born in 1823, William Brighty Rands published several volumes of children's literature anonymously and contributed to various periodicals under various pseudonyms, especially Matthew Browne, Henry Holbeach, and T. Talker. He worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and died in 1882. His major publications were:


[Browne, Matthew] Chaucer's England (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869).
Lilliput Levee (1864)
Lilliput Lectures (London: Strahan, 1871). PR 5209 R2 L5 York University Library
Lilliput Revels (New York: G. Routledge, 1871). Microopaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1970. Center of Research Libraries Database.
Lilliput Legends (1872)
W. B. Rand, Lilliput Lyrics, ed. R. Brimley Johnson (London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1899). del F Fisher Rare Book Library