Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913

Edward Dowden, Irish literary scholar and poet. He wrote several literary biographies, the most substantial being The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1886).

From the description of Edward Dowden manuscript material : 1 item, 1880 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 173998315

From the guide to the Edward Dowden manuscript material : 9 items, 1870's-1908, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.)

Edward Dowden was an Irish critic, biographer, and poet. Educated at Queen's College, Cork, and Trinity College, Dublin, Dowden became professor of English literature at Trinity in 1867 and lectured at Oxford (1890-93) and Cambridge (1893-96). His publications include Shakspere : a critical study of his mind and art (1875), Shakespeare scenes and characters (1876), Shakspere (1877), and Life of Shelley (1886).

From the description of Correspondence of Edward Dowden, 1868-1913. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122559963

Edward Dowden was an Irish author and Shakespearian critic. He was educated at Queen's College, Cork and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1863, where he became professor of English in 1867. He was also a friend and correspondent of Walt Whitman.

From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Frederick James Furnivall, and William J. Rolfe, 1876-1907. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190590974

Clara Barrus (1864-1931) was a physician and author best known as the official biographer of the prominent American naturalist writer, John Burroughs (1837-1921). Barrus was born in Port Byron, New York and received an M.D. in 1888 from Boston University. During her medical career she practiced privately in Utica, New York, served on the staff of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, and as professor of psychiatry at the Woman's Medical College of New York City.

Barrus met John Burroughs in 1902 and became his devoted follower, interviewer, and frequent companion. She published several essays on Burroughs during his lifetime and, after his death, was named his literary executrix and official biographer. She devoted most of her remaining years to Burroughs' memory, editing his posthumous works and journals and publishing the two-volume Life and Letters of John Burroughs in 1928 and Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades in 1931.

From the guide to the Clara Barrus papers, 1906-1931, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)