Eric Sutherland Robertson

Eric Sutherland Robertson (1857 – 24 May 1926)[1][2] was a Scottish man of letters, academic in India, and clergyman.

Life

Robertson edited the Magazine of Art in 1880–1.[3] In 1882 he was sharing rooms in Clement's Inn with Hall Caine, an arrangement that led to his marrying a girl from Clare Market, the friend of Mary with whom Caine lived. With family support he went to live at Chislehurst.[4]

In 1884 Robertson acted as best man for his friend William Sharp.[5] He set up the Great Writers series, published from 1887.[6] At the same period he was appointed to Lahore Government College of the University of the Punjab, where he was Professor of English Literature and Philosophy.[3]

From 1896 Robertson was vicar of Bowness-on-Windermere.[7]

Works

  • English Poetesses (1883)[8]
  • Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887)[8]
  • The Dreams of Christ, and Other Verses (1891)[8]
  • Wordsworth and the English Lake Country: An Introduction to a Poet's Country (1911)
  • The Bible's Prose Epic of Eve and her Sons: the 'J' Stories in Genesis
  • Wordsworthshire
  • From Alleys and Valleys[8]
  • The Human Bible: A Study in the Divine (1920)

Notes

  1. ↑ "Eric Sutherland Robertson". Statutory Births 1855-2013. ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 23 March 2015. (Subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ "Distinguished St Andrews Resident Dead". Dundee Courier. 25 May 1926. Retrieved 23 March 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. 1 2 Roger W. Peattie (August 1986). Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Penn State Press. p. 498 note 1. ISBN 0-271-02662-6.
  4. ↑ Vivien Allen (1 July 1997). Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer. A&C Black. pp. 153–4. ISBN 978-1-85075-809-9.
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (11 December 2014). William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by his wife Elizabeth A. Sharp. New York Duffield & Company. p. 66. GGKEY:CE1WA7HLC8Z.
  6. ↑ George Alexander Kennedy; A. Walton Litz (10 August 2000). The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism. Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-521-30012-4.
  7. ↑ "Bowness-on-Windermeer History & Genealogy Resources, Windermere, Westmorland". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Frederick Wilse Bateson (1966). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. pp. 355–. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.
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