About the Author
John Morley (1838-1923) was an English journalist, historian, and politician. In addition to his government work as Chief Secretary for Ireland and, later, Secretary of State for India, he wrote popular biographies. Among the best remembered of these are his biographies of Edmund Burke (1867), Voltaire (1871), and Rousseau (1873). He was ennobled as Viscount Morley of Blackburn in 1908.
