Papers of F.P. Wilson [manuscript], 1928-1962.

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Papers of F.P. Wilson [manuscript], 1928-1962.

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Mainly newspaper cuttings and correspondence from P. Simpson and W.W. Greg concerning Jonson and this edition of his works. Like some of the notes in the volumes, these note errata. A few letters discuss Ralph Crane's transcriptions of plays, (31-34, 37-39).

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Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962

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Percy Simpson (1865-1962) graduated from Cambridge but spent the most productive years of his scholarly career at Oxford. He is best-known as an editor of Ben Jonson's Works (1925-52), first with C. H. Herford and, from 1937, with Evelyn Spearing Simpson, his wife. He was also the author of Shakespearian Punctuation (1911) and Proofreading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (1935). He married Evelyn Spearing in 1921. From the description of Percy Simpson papers 1...

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...

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

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Crane, Ralph

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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...