Autograph letters from Alexander Balloch Grosart, Blackburne, Lancashire and elsewhere, to various people [manuscript], 1875-1894.

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Autograph letters from Alexander Balloch Grosart, Blackburne, Lancashire and elsewhere, to various people [manuscript], 1875-1894.

Correspondents: Robert Browning, Joseph W[oodfall] Ebsworth, F[rederick] G[ard] Fleay, J[ohn] W[illiam] Jarvis, [Henry Morley], [Robert] Roberts, A.C. [Algernon Charles] Swinburne and another. The majority of the letters are to Ebsworth and discuss details of the early texts Grosart was publishing. Ebsworth helped with the woodcuts and notes. The letters to Browning ask him, as president of the New Shakespere Society, to restrain Furnivall in his attacks on Swinburne.

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Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899

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Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

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Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall, 1824-1908

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The Reverend Joseph Woodfall, M.A. was born in 1824; graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1864, and was ordained in the same year; in 1871 he became the vicar of Molash, Kent; collected and edited English ballads and poetry; publications include The Roxburghe ballads (editor, 1869), and the Westminster drolleries of 1671 and 1672 (editor, 1875); he died in 1908. From the description of Papers, ca. 1860-1904. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 4029...

Roberts, Robert, 1839-1898

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Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910

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English scholar and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mrs. Mark's, Temple Gardens, Lincoln, to an unknown correspondent, 1890 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125491 Frederick James Furnivall (1825-1910) was an English scholar and editor who helped to organize the Working Men's College. Various organizations he founded include the Early English Text Society, Chaucer Society, New Shakspere Society, Wiclif Society, Browning Society, and Shelle...

Morley, Henry, 1822-1894

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English man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Prof. W. A. Knight, 1889 May 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612851 The collection comprises photocopies of letters to Henry Morley concerning the business of the periodical Household Words, from William Henry Wills, the assistant editor, 32 dated 1850-51 with 11 more down to 1862; and 9 from other correspondents; and 2 addressed to Charles Dickens, 1851-1868. ...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...

Jarvis, John William, active 19th century

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

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British poet. From the description of The descent into hell [manuscript poem], 1873 Jan. 9. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416044 From the description of Autograph quotation, [ca. 1890?]. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315968127 Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English lyric poet, dramatist, and critic of the Victorian era. He was famous for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Victorian morality. ...

Fleay, Frederick Gard, 1831-1909

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