Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), known as Austin Dobson, was a distinguished English poet and essayist. He published his first collection of poems, Vignettes in Rhyme, in 1873. In addition to poetry, he also wrote a number of biographies, including studies of Henry Fielding, Richard Steele, Fanny Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, and Horace Walpole.
W. Hall Griffin was a professor of English Language and Literature at Queens College, Oxford. He wrote The Life of Robert Browning with Notices of his Writings, His Family, and His Friends (1910).
