"Wantage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Saxons, and writer and translator, s. of Ethelwulf, b. at Wantage. Besides being the deliverer of his country from the ravages of the Danes, and the restorer of order and civil government, AE. has earned the title of the father of English prose writing. The earlier part of his life was filled ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin |
