JOHN DORAN BIOGRAPHY
JOHN DORAN BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
DORAN, JOHN (1807-1878). —Miscellaneous writer, of Irish parentage, wrote a number of works dealing with the lighter phases of manners, antiquities, and social history, often bearing punning titles, e.g. , Table Traits with Something on Them (1854), and Knights and their Days . He also wrote Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (1855), and A History of Court Fools (1858), and ed. Horace Walpole's Journal of the Reign of George III. His books contain much curious and out-of-the-way information. D. was for a short time ed. of The Athenæum .