A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John W. Cousin, published around 1910. Most of the entries consist of only one paragraph but some entries like William Shakespeare are quite lengthy.

It is notable for being the 5,000th e-book to be provided by the Distributed Proofreaders project, to Project Gutenberg. It was released on August 21, 2004 as EBook #13240.