1st Edition

The Selected Letters of W.E. Henley

By Damian Atkinson Copyright 2000
392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

The text of the book consists of some 150 letters (out of a corpus of 2,500) written by the late nineteenth-century poet, critic, editor and journalist W.E. Henley, to various figures of the period, e.g. R.L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, J.M. Barrie, William Archer, Rodin, Wilde, Kipling, Arthur Morrison, Alice Meynell, and Edmund Gosse. Letters are also included to other figures within Henley’s... Read more
Contents: The ninteenth century general editors’ preface; Introduction; Sources of letters, abbreviations and short titles; Chronology: William Ernest Henley 1849-1903; The Selected Letters 1870-1903: The early years: 1870-81; The world of art: 1881-88; The Scots Observer and the New Review: 1889-97; The final years: 1898-1903; Index.

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Damian Atkinson