Patrick Parrinder

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Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, formerly professor of English at the University of Reading who retired in 2008. [1]

Parrinder was educated at Leighton Park School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was taught English by Graham Hough. [2] [3] He has written books of literary criticism on James Joyce and H. G. Wells, and was associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , focusing on literary authors in the period 1890–1920.

He was Vice-President and President of the H.G. Wells Society in London. [4] [5] [6] [7]

He also edited texts of H. G. Wells published by Penguin Classics. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Professor Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Cambridge Tripos Examination Results", The Times, 24 June 1965, p. 18.
  3. ↑ "Letters to the Editor: George Steiner", The Times Literary Supplement , 3 April 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF3H9TLMmWw
  5. ↑ https://www.celebratewoking.info/events/the-prophet-of-science-by-partick-parrinder
  6. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/world/europe/hg-wells-coin-royal-mint.html
  7. ↑ https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Patrick-Parrinder/173889037
  8. ↑ Ryle, Martin H.; Bourne Taylor, Jenny (2005). George Gissing. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. vii. ISBN   0-7546-3675-5.


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