David Nichol Smith papers ca. 1904-1910

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

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

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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...

Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir, 1861-1922

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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English critic and essayist. In 1885, Raleigh went out to India having been appointed the first Professor of English literature at Aligarh Muslim University. In 1889, he was appointed Professor of modern literature at University College, Liverpool, and he began to write THE ENGLISH NOVEL (his first novel), ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: AN ESSAY and STYLE. He was Clark lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1899, and incorporated his lecture...

Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962

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David Nichol Smith (1875-1962) was Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1929 until his retirement in 1946. He was an authority on English Literature from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. 1895-1959. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225810188 David Nichol Smith assisted Sir Walter Raleigh with the Arden Shakespeare Series for several years, authored a number o...

Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952

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Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford, English publisher. From the guide to the Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford manuscript material : 3 items, 1903-1927, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: Publisher to Oxford University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0000ef ...

Sampson, John, 1862-1931

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