Papers of E.H.W. Meyerstein late 19th-20th century

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Papers of E.H.W. Meyerstein late 19th-20th century

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Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952

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Edward Harry William Meyerstein was an English scholar, author, and man of letters. He was born in London and educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He worked in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, and served in World War I. After the war he turned to writing full-time, producing poetry, translations, plays, fiction, music criticism, and biography; he was perhaps best known for his life of Thomas Chatterton. Elements of his personal life were sometimes controversial and uncomp...

E. H. W. Meyerstein

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Edward Harry William Meyerstein (1889-1952) was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and worked briefly in the Manuscript department of the British Museum before spending the rest of his life as a writer and poet. Details are given in Who Was Who . The typescript of an unpublished biography by Gordon Hawkins, an independent scholar who knew Meyerstein in Cambridge, was lodged at the library in 2001. From the guide to the Papers of E.H.W. Meyerstein, late 19th-20th century, (Universi...