Ernest De Selincourt

Standard Name: Selincourt, Ernest De

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Dorothy Wordsworth
Virginia Woolf published an essay on DW in 1929 (reprinted in the Common Reader: Second Series, 1932). As early as 1940 (in his edition published the following year) Ernest de Selincourt wrote, Dorothy Wordsworth...
Literary responses Sylvia Pankhurst
There was not much response in the way of reviews, and her biographer Patricia W. Romero speculates that her earnings from this writing would have been small.
Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987.
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Ernest de Selincourt reviewed Delphos for the...
Literary responses Dorothy Wordsworth
Ernest de Selincourt called the Recollections of a Tour made in Scotlandone of the most delightful of all books of travel, and . . . undoubtedly, her masterpiece.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Preface”. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Ernest De Selincourt, Macmillan, 1941, p. 1: v - xix.
vii
Publishing Dorothy Wordsworth
She worked on this account during the year following the actual journey, and found it very hard going, chiefly on account of what she now felt to be the excessive quantity of her notes compiled...
Publishing Dorothy Wordsworth
This is the latest writing which Ernest de Selincourt includes in his edition of DW 's journals.
Reception Dorothy Wordsworth
Editor Ernest de Selincourt praised these journals as a veritable transcript of real life, valuable both for its self-picturing and as a picture of a typical village community.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Preface”. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Ernest De Selincourt, Macmillan, 1941, p. 1: v - xix.
vii
To his idea of typicality it...
Residence Edmund Spenser
For the rest of his life Spenser was primarily resident in Ireland, first in Dublin and later in the south-west, travelling around the war-torn country in the course of his work (sometimes on military actions)...
Textual Production Dorothy Wordsworth
DW envisaged its publication only anonymously and [t]hirty or forty years hence.
qtd. in
Wolfson, Susan J. “Individual in Community: Dorothy Wordsworth in Conversation with William”. Romanticism and Feminism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Indiana University Press, 1988, pp. 139-66.
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Ernest de Selincourt edited it in 1936 as George & Sarah Green, A Narrative.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Dorothy Wordsworth
DW 's manuscripts survive in the collection at Dove Cottage in Grasmere. The twentieth century saw a burst of publication of her writing in scholarly editions. Ernest de Selincourt edited her Journals in 1941...

Timeline

9 November 1580: At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland...

National or international item

9 November 1580

At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland the English Lord Deputy, Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton , ordered the massacre about 600 European mercenary soldiers who had already surrendered to him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Spenser

Texts

Wordsworth, Dorothy. George & Sarah Green. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon, 1936.
Selincourt, Ernest De. “International Language”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1330, p. 516.
Spenser, Edmund. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, edited by Ernest De Selincourt et al., Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916, p. vii - lxvii.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Preface”. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Ernest De Selincourt, Macmillan, 1941, p. 1: v - xix.
Selincourt, Ernest De. “The Brontës: Review of All Alone by Romer Wilson”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1376, p. 446.
Wordsworth, William et al. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Editors Selincourt, Ernest De et al., Clarendon, 1993, 8 vols.
Wordsworth, William, and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Later Years. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon Press, 1939, 3 vols.
Spenser, Edmund. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Editors Smith, James Cruikshank and Ernest De Selincourt, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916.