JONES, EBENEZER

JONES, EBENEZER
   poet, born in Islington; author of "Studies in Sensation and Event," fraught with genuine poetic feeling; published a pamphlet on "Land Monopoly," in which he advocated the nationalisation of land, apparently as a disciple of Carlyle (1820-1860).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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