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bibliography
Antony and Cleopatra (1944)
Augustus John. Fifty-two Drawings (1957)
The Bodley Head Beerbohm (1970)
The Cecils of Hatfield House: A Portrait of an English Ruling Family (1973)
A Choice of Tennyson's verse (1971)
Desmond MacCarthy, the Man and His Writings (1984)
Early Victorian novelists : essays in revaluation (1934)
The English Poets (1941)
The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies (1957)
Hardy the Novelist, an Essay in Criticism (1942)
Jane Austen (1936)
Lady Ottoline 's Album (1976)
Library Looking-Glass (1975)
Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord Melbourne (1954)
Max (1964)
Men of the R.A.F. (1942)
Modern Verse in English 1900-1950 (1958)
Oxford Book Of Christian Verse (1941)
Poetry of Thomas Gray (1945)
Poets & story-tellers (1949)
A portrait of Charles Lamb (1983)
A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978)
Reading as one of the fine arts (1949)
Sir Walter Scott: The Raven Miscellany (1933)
Some Dorset Country Houses (1985)
The Stricken Deer or The Life of Cowper (1929)
Two Quiet Lives (1948)
A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and her Circle (1975)
Visionary and dreamer : two poetic painters : Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones (1969)
Walter De La Mare (1973)
Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist (1955)
The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb (1939)
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basic biography
Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil was born April 9, 1902. He was the fourth child of
the 4th Marquess of Salisbury who was a Member of Parliament at the time and became leader of
the House of Lords. Like his family before him, he attended Eton College and eventually made
his way to Oxford, specifically Christ Church.
He married Rachel MacCarthy, the daughter of a literary critic and editor, and had at least one son.
They appear to have had a happy relationship, though not much is known about them. He took up writing,
mostly biographies, which became quite popular. His general literary preferences were quite similar
to that of the other Inklings, particularly Tolkien.
He spent a lot of his time in and around Oxford for almost the rest of his life, although he also
ended up in London for a while was well. He is best known as Professor of English Literature at
the Oxford from 1948 - 1970, a post which Tolkien had suggested for him. David Cecil died in 1986.
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