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Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April 1902 – 1 January 1986) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord" by courtesy as a younger son of a marquess.
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5 de abr. de 2024 · Lord David Cecil (born April 9, 1902, London, Eng.—died Jan. 1, 1986, Cranborne, Dorset) was an English biographer, literary critic, and educator, best known for his discerning, sympathetic, and elegantly written studies of many literary figures.
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4 de ene. de 1986 · Lord David Cecil, a prominent British literary historian and biographer, died Wednesday at the age of 83. Best known for his biography of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's earliest...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Lord David Cecil [1] (sĬs´əl, sĕs–) (Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne Cecil), 1902–86, English biographer. He was professor of English literature [2] at Oxford (1948–70). Cecil's works are all distinguished for their artistry as well as for their sound scholarship.
Lord David Cecil not only contributed more to the Inklings overall than did some of its other members, he was also the first of the Inklings to achieve fame, though few remember him now.
Professor of English at Oxford University, LORD DAVID CECIL is a scholar, critic, and biographer of exceptional quality. His study of Couper, The Stricken Deer (1929), his volume on...
Lord David Cecil, in his influential book, Early Victorian Novelists, begins his chapter on Elizabeth Gaskëll by contrasting her with other Victorian women writers. Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, he says, though unmistakably women... are not ordinary women. Ugly, dynamic, childless, independent., in the placid dovecotes of Victorian
