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Born on April 9, 1902, Lord David Cecil was one of the younger members of the Inklings, a decade younger than Tolkien and a few years younger than Lewis. [7] He attended Eton College from 1915 to 1919, then attending and matriculating from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1920, earning a first in history and being deeply influenced by the famous ...
Lord David Cecil. Scholar and biographer; A Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History at Wadham College in the 1920s, Cecil left academic life in 1930 to devote himself to writing biography and criticism. He returned and was Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford University (1948-69); His works include a study of William Cowper, The ...
David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter (c. 1600–1643), 17th Century British MP and peer; Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), British biographer, literary scholar and academic; David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905–1981), British athlete, sports official and Conservative politician; David Cecil (producer), British theatre producer
25 dic 2019 · Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil ( April 9, 1902 – January 1, 1986 ), was an English aristocrat, literary scholar, biographer and academic. He was also a fellow Inkling with J.R.R. Tolkien . His title was a courtesy title: he was a younger son of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury.
1 gen 1978 · David Cecil. 3.97. 220 ratings37 reviews. The late 18th century world in which Jane Austen lived was one that combined good sense, elegant manners, intelligence and piety with a liberal dash of spirited fun. Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels, and other people's memories of her, David Cecil sets out to "reconstruct and depict her living ...
My journalist gene made me order a used specimin of David Cecil's biography about his relative, the real Lord Melbourne. It is so very well written, in beautiful English (of course) - so well told. Very sad actually, since Lord M for the rest of his life missed the queen every single day - and died only 7 years (I think) after his resignation.
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Lord David Cecil, a literary historian and a correspondent of LCA, thought her letters just as amusing and charming and individual as those of Dorothy Osborne, Lady Sarah Lennox, Jane Welsh Carlyle, or Emily Eden. View reference. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
