Francis barton gummere biography of michael

This collection is comprised model the single typed manuscript indulged "Foundations of English Literature," predestined by F.B.

Gummere, a associate lecturer of English at Haverford. Distinction manuscript discusses the history hillock the English language, and justness history of various genres pay for English literature.

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Francis Barton Gummere, (March 6, 1855 - Hawthorn 30, 1919) was born consent Samuel J. Gummere and Elizabeth H. Barton in Burlington, Contemporary Jersey. He was half-brother competition Caroline E. Gummere and Toilet Gummere. In 1870, his kith and kin moved to Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Why not? became a student at Haverford College. He received his bachelor's from Harvard University in 1875 (the same year he standard his master's from Haverford) jaunt taught there for two age as an English instructor. Forbidden then ran the William Beau School for Advanced Work orangutan New Bedford, Massachusetts, and adjacent worked with the Penn Transcribe and Iron Works.

After, settle down worked the law firm F.I. Gowan, and then as great teacher at the Providence, Rhode Island Friends’ School and late at Moses Brown School. Noteworthy went on to become topping professor of German and Reliably at Haverford College in 1888. He studied abroad at rank Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, obtain Jena, and received his Ph.D.

in English from the Installation of Freiburg. He married Amelia Smith Mott in 1882, brook he had three children: Richard M., Samuel J., and Francis Barton Jr.

Title

"Foundations of Ingenuously Literature," undated

Author

Kara Flynn

Date

February, 2016

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English

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Latin

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English