Frank PercyWilson Papers 1912-1961

McManaway, James Gilmer, 1899-1980

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James G. McManaway was a Shakespeare scholar, acting director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington (1946-8), and editor of the journal Shakespeare Quarterly....

Ferguson, F. S. (Frederic Sutherland), 1878-1967

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Wilson, John Dover, 1881-1969

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Davin, Dan, 1913-1990.

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D.M. Davin : The Clarendon Press, Oxford. From the description of [Letters] 1951 June 11 - November 7, Oxford [to] R.M. Dawkins / D.M. Davin. - 1951. (University of Oxford). WorldCat record id: 44831859 ...

Wilson, F.P. (Frank Percy), 1889-1963

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Frank Percy Wilson was born in Birmingham, England, the youngest of nine children. He took a first class in English (1911) and an M.A.(1912) at the University of Birmingham, and a B.Litt from Lincoln College, Oxford in the following year. Wilson's thesis was on Thomas Dekker. He volunteered for the Army in September 1914, and was badly wounded at the battle of the Somme in July 1916, spending over a year in the hospital and enduring repeated surgeries. After brief service as the Min...

Janson, Cobb, Pearson and Co.

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Shipton, Clifford Kenyon, 1902-1973

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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...

Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

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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. ...

Greg, W.W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959

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Walter Wilson Greg, bibliographer and literary scholar, was born in Wimbledon Common, England, on July 9, 1875. He was the only child of the idustrialist and author William Rathbone Greg and Julia Wilson Greg, daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist . Greg's family hoped that he would assume the editorship of the newspaper someday, and he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he received a "pass" degree in 1897. During...

Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954

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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...