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English Studies
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Contributions to periodicals
An unnamed habit of language. Macmillan’s Mag 31, Nov 1874.
On local names. Trans of the Bristol and Gloucestershire
Archaeological Soc 1884.
Alexander John Ellis 1814–90
Phonetics: a familiar system of the principles of that science, by A. J.
E. 1844.
The essentials of phonetics: containing the theory of a universal
alphabet, together with its practical application. 1848.
An extension of phonography to foreign languages: containing a
complete phonographic alphabet; and hints towards the construction
of a phonographic short hand in French and German. 1848.
Phonetic spelling familiarly explained, for the use of romanic
readers: with numerous examples. 1849.
On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to
Shakespeare and Chaucer; containing an investigation of the correspondence
of writing with speech in England, from the Anglo-
Saxon period to the present day, including a re-arrangement of F.
J. Child’s memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower. 5 pts
1869–89 (Chaucer Soc, Philological Soc, EETS). Pt 5 a dialect
survey of England.
On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of
music, by Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz; translated from the
third German edition, with additions and notes. 1875, 1885 (rev
with addns). ‘More than a third consisted of work by Ellis
himself’ – DNB.
The English, Dionysian and Hellenic pronunciations of Greek, considered
in reference to school and college use. 1876.
An early English hymn to the Virgin, with notes on the Welsh phonetic
copy. 1876 (English Dialect Soc).
The history of musical pitch, reprinted with corrections and an
appendix, from the Journal of the Society of Arts. 1880.
Ellis also wrote many other papers and bks on phonetics, phonography, music,
mathematics, philosophy, etc, and produced phonetic texts of the Bible,
Macbeth, The Tempest, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, etc. He edited
The Fonetic Frend (1849) and The Spelling Reformer (1849–50), and
was a significant figure in the movement for spelling reform.
Frederic Thomas Elworthy 1830–1907
The dialect of West Somerset. 1875–6.
An outline of the grammar of the dialect of West Somerset. 1877.
Specimens of English dialects. 1879.
The West-Somerset word-book: a glossary of dialectal and archaic
words used in the west of Somerset and east Devon. 1886.
Horns of honour: and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology.
1900.
Contributions to periodicals
On West Somerset patois. Somersetshire Archaeological and
Natural History Soc Proc 1876.
Devonshire speech the true classic English. Report and Trans of the
Devonshire Assoc 1880.
On the Devonshire pronoun min or mun = them. Report and Trans
of the Devonshire Assoc 1881.
Further unnoted grammatical peculiarities in the dialect of
Somerset and Devon. Proc of the Philological Soc 1883–4.
On some fresh words and phrases in the Somerset dialect. Trans of
the Philological Soc 1898.
Elworthy also wrote on folklore and traditional custom and belief.
Frederick Gard Fleay 1831–1909
Almond blossoms. 1857. Poems.
The poetry of Catullus rendered into English. 1864.
Shakespeare manual. 1876.
Guide to Chaucer and Spenser. 1877.
Introduction to Shakespearian study. 1877.
Marlow’s tragedy of Edward the second, with introductory remarks
and notes. 1877.
English sounds and English spelling. 1878.
The life and death of King John, by William Shakespeare, together
with the troublesome reign of King John, edited with notes.
1878.
The logical English grammar. 1884.
A chronicle history of the life and work of William Shakespeare.
1886.
A chronicle history of the London stage 1559–1642. 1890.
A biographical chronicle of the English drama 1559–1642. 2 vols
1891.
Egyptian chronology: an attempt to conciliate the ancient schemes
and to educe a rational system. 1899.
Fleay also produced several grammars and papers on education, etc. He was
editor of Spelling Reformer (1880–1), and contributed to Trans of the
New Shakespeare Soc many important papers and edns of Pericles and
Timon without the non-Shakespearian scenes.
Harry Buxton Forman 1842–1917
Editions
The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in verse and prose, edited with
prefaces, notes and appendices. 8 vols [1876]–80. Also poems only,
4 vols 1876, and with memoir 5 vols 1892 (Aldine edn).
Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, written in the years 1819
and 1820, with introduction and notes. 1878, 1889 (rev and
enlarged).
The poetical works and other writings of John Keats, edited with
notes and appendices. 4 vols 1883; suppl 1890; [poems only]
1884.
The letters of John Keats: complete edition. 1895.
The complete works of John Keats. 5 vols Glasgow 1900–1.
The poetical works of John Keats, edited with an introduction and
textual notes. Oxford 1906.
Note books of Percy Bysshe Shelley, deciphered, transcribed and
edited, with a full commentary. 1911 (Boston Bibliophile Soc).
The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Thomas Medwin, with an introduction
and commentary. 1913.
Forman also supervised edns of separate poems by Shelley as well as works by
Matthew Arnold, the Brownings et al.
Other works
Our living poets: an essay in criticism. 1871.
The Shelley library: an essay in bibliography. 1886.
The books of William Morris described, with some account of his
doings in literature and in the allied crafts. 1897.
Forman also contributed to Literary anecdotes of the nineteenth
century, ed Sir W. R. Nicoll and T. J. Wise, 2 vols 1895–6, as well as publishing
papers on Shelley, Chatterton et al.
§2
Barker, N. and J. Collins. A sequel to an enquiry. The book forgeries
of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise re-examined. Newcastle DE
1992.
Collins, J. The two forgers: a biography of Harry Buxton Forman
and T. J. Wise. Aldershot 1992.
Edward Augustus Freeman 1823–92
Contributions to periodicals
Literature and language. Contemporary Rev 52, Oct 1887.
Freeman wrote extensively on politics, geography and medieval history, and
against blood sports. See also col 2423 above.