About John Dickenson
Lived 1570 – 1636 (aged 65–66). John Dickenson was an English poet and writer.
John Dickenson ( 1570–1636) was an English author, known as a romance-writer. He was a follower in the school of John Lyly and Robert Greene. He worked for a time in the Low Countries, and Germany. Employed by George Gilpin and Ralph Winwood, he may have been a spy, and certainly was an agent of the government on the ground at the time of the War of the Jülich succession of 1610. He was employed on further missions, in Poland and Scandinavia.
According to recent scholarship, Dickenson translated from French Louis Leroy's edition of Aristotle's Politics in 1598, as Aristotles Politiques.
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British writer
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John Dickenson was born in 1570.
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John Dickenson died in 1636.
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John Dickenson was a poet and writer.
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John Dickenson was English.
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