William Sharp
Scottish writer
- Lived
- 1855–1905
- Also writes as
- Fiona Macleod
Updated September 2026
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About William Sharp
William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
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