Robert Browning

Robert Browning

male, deceased (1889)
buried at Westminster Abbey, Victorian poetry, British, From Surrey, Victorian, English…Victorianliterature
Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic...
Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter

female, 68 years old
Toward a Feminist Poetics, Man Booker International Prize, hysteria, modern language association, Victorianliterature, feminist literary criticism
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the...
Carol T. Christ

Carol T. Christ

female, 65 years old
Literature educator, Board of Director, American university and college president, University of California, Berkeley faculty, English, teacher…Victorianliterature, norton anthology of english literature, english literature
Carol Tecla Christ (b. 1944) is a scholar of Victorian literature and English Literature in general. She is past editor of the "Norton Anthology of...
Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks

male, 76 years old
Stanford University, Sabbatical year, W. K. Wimsatt, Johnsonian, Balliol College, Oxford, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford…Victorian poetry, Victorianliterature, english literature
Christopher Ricks (born 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at...

Michael Sadleir

male, deceased (1957)
Concerning the Spiritual In Art, vorticist, First World War, abstract art, blast, german expressionist…victorian era, Victorian, Victorianliterature, Victorian fiction
Michael Sadleir (1888-1957) was a British novelist and book collector. He was born "Michael Sadler" but when he began to publish novels he altered...

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

male, deceased (1907)
Imaginary Sonnets, Annie E. Holdsworth, Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, English, victorian era, dramatic monologue…Victorian, Victorianliterature
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907) was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. He endowed a...

Walter Houghton

male, deceased (1983)
historian, American, Victorianliterature, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, Walter Edwards Houghton
Walter Edwards Houghton (September 21, 1904 in Stamford, Connecticut - April 11, 1983) was an American historian of Victorian literature, best...
Thomas Marc Parrott

Thomas Marc Parrott

male, deceased (1960)
shakespeare, University of Leipzig, Princeton University faculty, Princeton University, american civil war, English Renaissance theatre…Victorianliterature
Thomas Marc Parrott (1866 - 1960) was a prominent twentieth-century literary scholar, long a member of the faculty of Princeton University in New...
Ian Fletcher

Ian Fletcher

male, deceased (1988)
Arizona State University, British, Literary critic, john gray, English, fin-de-siecle…Victorianliterature
Ian Fletcher was a British professor who specialized in Victorian literature. He edited definitive editions of the works of John Gray and Lionel...
Ruth Aproberts

Ruth Aproberts

female, deceased (2006)
Christian, The Biblical Web, hebrew, torah, Robert apRoberts, The Moral Trollope…Medieval literature, British literature, Victorian, Victorianliterature
Ruth apRoberts (née Ruth Heyer was a Canadian scholar of Victorian and religious literature. Her work focused on 19th-century British literature a...