Chapman, R.W. (Robert William), 1881-1960

Robert William Chapman (1881-1960) graduated from the University of Oxford, and was employed by the university's Clarendon Press from 1906 to 1942. He edited numerous scholarly editions of Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. The culmination of his career was The Letters of Samuel Johnson, which he began researching in the mid-1920s, and completed in 1952. This remained the definitive edition of Johnson's correspondence until Bruce Redford's The Letters of Samuel Johnson in 1992.

From the description of Papers, 1922-1965 (inclusive), 1925-1952 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84661307

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