SAMUEL LOVER BIOGRAPHY
SAMUEL LOVER BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868). —Song-writer and novelist, was a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He produced a number of Irish songs, of which several—including The Angel's Whisper , Molly Bawn , and The Four-leaved Shamrock —attained great popularity. He also wrote some novels, of which Rory O'More (in its first form a ballad), and Handy Andy are the best known, and short Irish sketches, which, with his songs, he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights . He joined with Dickens in founding Bentley's Magazine .