Значение слова REEVE в Литературной энциклопедии

REEVE

1) CLARA (1729-1807).-Novelist, was the author of several novels, of which only one is remembered-_The Old English Baron_ (1777), written in imitation of, or rivalry with, H. Walpole's _Castle of Otranto_, with which it has often been printed. 2) REEVE, HENRY (1813-1895).-Editor, etc., _s._ of a physician, was on the staff of the _Times_, the foreign policy of which he influenced for many years. He was ed. of the _Edinburgh Review_ 1855-95, and of the Greville Memoirs 1865. He held a leading place in society, and had an unusually wide acquaintance with men of letters all over the continent.

Литературная энциклопедия.