John Dickenson

Male, Deceased Person

1570 – 1636

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Who was John Dickenson?

John Dickenson 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.

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Born
1570
Died
1636

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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