Edward Dowden

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		Apr 30, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Mar 31, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 28, 2024
	Add new Web site: Ricorso - Biography of Edward Dowden.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Jun 02, 2017
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 04, 1999