Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
William Elstob
Standard Name: Elstob, William
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
's brother
died: she lost her emotional, intellectual, and financial support. Editor Ruth Perry
gives this date as 3 March, as does the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, wheras editors C. E.
and... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
wrote a short biography of her brother
, which remained unpublished until a generation after her death. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Elstob | Elizabeth's brother, William
(who was a scholar ten years older than she was, a Fellow of University College, Oxford
from 1696, and a clergyman in London from 1702), was an important figure in her earlier... |
| Residence | Elizabeth Elstob | As a young adult EE
lived with her brother
. She may have been with him in Oxford from 1696; she was certainly with him in Bush Lane, London, from 1702, when he became... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | Most important among EE
's scholarly circle were George Hickes
and her brother
. The group of scholars known as the Oxford Saxonists, to their credit, seems to have welcomed her on terms of equality... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Elstob | The single homily appeared as a costly production, with a two-colour title-page, commissioned illustrations, and specially designed type to encompass the several languages necessary. The original Old English and Elstob's translation appear on facing pages... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | Thomas Hearne
on the one hand called it fanciful, vain, and affected, and n the other hand supposed that it must have been written by William Elstob
, not Elizabeth. Sutherland, Kathryn. “Editing for a New Century: Elizabeth Elstob’s Anglo-Saxon Manifesto and Ælfric’s St Gregory Homily”. The Editing of Old English: Papers from the 1990 Manchester Conference, edited by Don G. Scragg and Paul E. Szarmach, D. S. Brewer, pp. 213-37. 213 |
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