from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
12th edition (2007)
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People: W-
(other than writers, artists, scientists, intellectuals, saints and main political rulers)
Waad, William
Secretary to Elizabeth I of England, c. 1600.
Waad, William. Letter to David Cecil, on Abraham Edwardes. Calendar of the Manuscripts of . . . the Marquis of Salisbury. 18 vols. London, 1904. 10.172-3.
Wafer, Lionel
Pirate
Wafer, Lionel. A New Voyage. 1699.
Wakeman, George (Sir)
Physician to Queen Caroline, 1680s.
Wallenstein
Lagoni, Frederike. Fiktionales versus faktuales Erzählen fremden Bewusstseins. (Narratologia, 53). Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016.* (Represented speech; represented thought; Goethe, Wilhelm Meister; George Foster, Cook der Entdecker; Eduard Mörike, Maler Nolten; Karl Falkenstein, Kosciuszko; Gottfried Keller, Der grüne Heinrich; Friedrich Meinecke, Hermann von Boyen; Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg; Ernst Kantorowicz, Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite; Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit; Golo Mann, Wallenstein).
Walsingham, Francis (Sir) (c. 1530-1590)
English statesman, Secretary of State 1573-90
Literature
Lane, Jane. Conies in the Hay: A Novel. Davies, 1973. (Walsingham, Paris, 1586).
Watson, T. Eclogue upon Death of Walshingham. 1590. Rpt. Arber.
Walter (General)
El general Walter. Delsan, c. 2012.
Ward, John
News from the Sea of Ward the Pirate. Pamphlet on John Ward. Early 17th?
Waterford, Louisa, Marchioness of
Surtees, Virginia, ed. Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden, and Ellen Heaten. London: Joseph, 1972.
Watt, James
British engineer, improved steam engine, 1769.
Internet resources
"James Watt." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt
2013
Wegener, Einar
Danish artist, underwent sex-change operation in 1930.
Welby (Lady)
Peirce, C. S., and Victoria Lady Welby. Semiotic and Significs: The Correspondence between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby. Ed. C. S. Hardwick. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977.
Peirce, C. S. Excerpts from Letters to Lady Welby (1906-08). In The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Volume 2 (1893-1913). Ed. Nathan Houser et al. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. 477-91.* (on semiotics).
Related works
Peirce, Charles S. From Letters to Lady Welby. In Critical Theory since 1965. Ed.. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahassee: UPs of Florida / Florida State UP, 1986. 1990. 639-45.*
Wellington (Duke of)
Hibbert, Christopher. Wellington: A Personal History. London: HarperCollins, 1997.
Weller, Jac. Wellington in India. London: Longman, 1972.
Literature
Tennyson, A. "Ode" on the Death of Wellington. 1852.
Music
Beethoven. Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria op. 91. 1813. Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan. Prod. 1969. In Orchesterwerke - Bühnenmusik. 5 CDs. (Complete Beethoven Edition, vol. 3). Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 1997.* (Wellington's Victory, or The Battle of Vitoria / "Battle Symphony").
Thomas Wentworth, Earl Strafford
Browning. Strafford.
Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-41. 1959.
Rushworth, John., ed. The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford. 1680.
Wedgwood, C. V. Strafford.
Weston, Richard (Sir); Earl of Portland
Alexander, Michael. Charles I's Lord Treasurer: Sir Richard Weston Earl of Portland. Preface by A. Rowe. North Carolina UP, 1975.
Wharton (Thomas, Earl of)
Swift, Jonathan. A Short Character of T[homas] E[arl of] W[harton]. 1711.
Whittington, Dick
Heywood, Thomas. The Famovs and Remarkable History of Sir Richard Whittington. 1656. In Literature Online: Early English Prose Fiction. Cambridge: Chadwick-Healey.
Wild, Jonathan
British racketeer and thief gang leader, hanged 1725.
Howson, Gerald. Thief-Taker General: The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Wild. London: Hutchinson, 1970.
_____. It Takes a Thief: The Life and Times of Jonathan Wild. Cresset, 1987.
Mackay, Charles. "Popular Admiration of Great Thieves." In Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Ware: Wordsworth, 1995. 632-46.*
Fiction
Fielding, Henry. The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. Satirical novel. In Fielding, Miscellanies. Vol. 3. 1743.
Wildman, John
Ashley, Maurice. John Wildman. 1947.
Wilkinson, John.
English industrialist (18th c.)
Wilkinson, Robert
Clergyman, fl. 1607.
William the Marshal
Duby, Georges. Guillermo el Mariscal. Madrid: Alianza.
Williamson, Joseph
Retired tobacco merchant and philantropist, built a network of tunnels under Liverpool.
Internet resources
Friends of Williamson Tunnels
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/
2004-10-16
Wilson, Henry (Henry Jeremiah Jones Colbath Wilson, 1812-1875)
US politician, vice-president of the US 1873-75.
Winchester (Marchioness of)
Literature
Milton, John. "An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester." Poem. In Poems. 1645.
_____. "An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester." In The Poetical Works of John Milton. London: Bliss Sands & Co., n.d. [c. 1898] 315.*
_____. "An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester." Poem. In Poems. 1645. In The Poems of John Milton. Ed. H. Darbishire. London: Oxford UP, 1961. 16-18.*
Windsor (House of)
Prince Henry
García Landa, José Angel. (In that very line, vile participation). In García Landa, Blog de notas 13 Jan. 2005.
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-1.html#ylast
2006-07-08
Withers, Henry
Literature
Pope, Alexander. "On General Henry Withers, In Westminster-Abbey, 1729." Epitaph. In The Poetical Works of Pope. Ed A. W. Ward. London: Macmillan, 1879. 459.*
Wolford, George (Dartmouth College).
Wright brothers
(Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, built first successful airplane 1903)
Literature
Perrine, Laurence. "Two brothers devised what at sight." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 863.*
Wriothesley, Henry (Earl of Southampton) (b. 1573)
Shakespeare's patron, involved in the Earl of Essex' conspiracy, imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth.
Akrigg, G. P. V. Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton. 1968.
Wuormos, Aileen
US prostitute, serial killer, executed.
Films
Monster. Writer and dir. Patty Jenkins. Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley, Scott Wilson. Musc by BT and Howard Paar. Coprod. Brent Morris. Prod. des. Edward T. McAvoy. Ed. Jane Kurson and Arthur Coburn. Photog. Steven Bernstein. Exec. prod. Sammy Lee, Meagan Riley-Grant, Stewart Hall, Andreas Grosch, Andreas Schmid. Prod. Charlize Theron, Mark Damon, Clark Peterson, Donald Kushner, Brad Wyman. Media 8 Entertainment / DEJ Productions / KW Productions / Denver & Delilah Films, 2003. DVD: Prism Leisure, 2005.* (Prostitute who is a serial killer, based on the Aileen Wuormos case).
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521-1554)
Son of Sir Thomas Wyatt; rebel leader against Mary Tudor, executed.
"Thomas Wyatt the Younger."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wyatt_the_younger
2011
Wyld
Morley, Henry. "The Globe in a Square." Household Words 12 July 1851. Online at Rhode Island College.* (Wyld).
http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/globe.html
2015