Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630) was an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse which reflect the follies and humours of lower middle-class life in his day. He seems to have had no literary reputation at the time, but his work throws much light on the development of popular literature and social life in London,[1] where he spent his life. His contact with the middle and lower classes of society included working in 1600–1615 for William White, and then George Loftus, booksellers, who published Rowlands's pamphlets in this time.[2]
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rowlands, Samuel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787.
- ^ Selected English Renaissance Religious Writing – Samuel Rowlands University of Saskatchewan
