Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was a British lexicographer and the author of A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, among other reference books.
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1810 to 1897 · aged 86
Written about in
4 languages
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