A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849–1910), published in 1910. Most of the entries consist of only one paragraph but some entries, like William Shakespeare's, are quite lengthy. The book was the 5,000th e-book provided by the Distributed Proofreaders project to Project Gutenberg, where it was released on August 21, 2004. References External links A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions) Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature