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		English Men of Letters was a series of literary biographies written by leading literary figures of the day and published by Macmillan, under the general editorship of John Morley. The original series was launched in 1878, with Leslie Stephen's biography of Samuel Johnson, and ran until 1892. A second series, again under the general editorship of Morley, was published between 1902 and 1919.


First Series[edit]



 
	
	1. Leslie Stephen, Samuel Johnson, 1878
	2. James Cotter Morison, Gibbon, 1878
	3. Richard H. Hutton, Sir Walter Scott, 1878
	4. John Addington Symonds, Shelley, 1878
	5. Thomas Henry Huxley, Hume, 1879
	6. William Black, Goldsmith, 1878
	7. William Minto, Daniel Defoe, 1879
	8. John Campbell Shairp, Robert Burns, 1879
	9. R. W. Church, Spenser, 1879
	10. Anthony Trollope, Thackeray, 1879
	11. John Morley, Burke, 1879
	12. Mark Pattison, Milton, 1879
	13. Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1879
	14. Edward Dowden, Southey, 1879
	15. Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer, 1879
	16. Goldwin Smith, Cowper, 1880
	17. James Anthony Froude, Bunyan, 1879
	18. John Nichol, Byron, 1880
	19. Thomas Fowler, Locke, 1880
	20. Leslie Stephen, Alexander Pope, 1880


 


	
	21. Alfred Ainger, Charles Lamb, 1882
	22. David Masson, Quincey, 1881
	23. Sidney Colvin, Landor, 1881
	24. George Saintsbury, Dryden, 1881
	25. F. W. H. Myers, Wordsworth, 1881
	26. Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Bentley, 1882
	27. Leslie Stephen, Swift, 1882
	28. Adolphus William Ward, Dickens, 1882
	29. Edmund Gosse, Gray, 1882
	30. H. D. Traill, Sterne, 1882
	31. James Cotter Morison, Macaulay, 1882
	32. Austin Dobson, Fielding, 1883
	33. Mrs. Oliphant, Sheridan, 1883
	34. W. J. Courthope, Addison, 1884
	35. R. W. Church, Bacon, 1884
	36. H. D. Traill, Coleridge, 1884
	37. John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney, 1886
	38. Sidney Colvin, Keats, 1887
	39. John Nichol, Thomas Carlyle, 1892


 






Further reading[edit]

	Fenwick, Gillian (1995), "Nourishing the curiosity: Leslie Stephen and the English Men of Letters series", Nineteenth-Century Prose
	
Kijinski, John L. (Winter 1991), "John Morley's "English Men of Letters" series and the politics of reading", Victorian Studies, 34: 205–225
	
Kijinski, John L. (1994), "Macmillan's English Men of Letters, First Series",  in Serafin, Steven (ed.), Nineteenth Century British Literary Biographers, Dictionary of Literary Biography, 144, Detroit: Gale Research Inc.
	Amigoni, David. Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse. London: Routledge, 2014.






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