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William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries: Volume 1
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1876 edition by Henry S. King & Co., London.
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First published January 1, 2006
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C. Kegan Paul
50 booksCharles Kegan Paul, 1828-1902, was both a publisher (of Kegan Paul & Trench) and an author and translator.
He was originally a man of the church, curate at Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and vicar at Sturminster Marsahall in Dorset, as well as a master at Eton College before he went into publishing, firstly as a partner in Henry S. King and Co, then on his own as Kegan Paul, then with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co before he resigned from the firm, which in 1912 joined with George Routledge and became Routledge and Kegan Paul.
After school at Ilminster, Somerset, he attended Eton College, where he later became a master, and Exeter College, Oxford. He left Oxford with a BA that he later converted into an MA.
As well as translating foreign works, he wrote on religious subjects, biographical topics and his own autobiography entitled 'Memories, which was published in 1899.
He died in West Kensington, London.
He was originally a man of the church, curate at Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and vicar at Sturminster Marsahall in Dorset, as well as a master at Eton College before he went into publishing, firstly as a partner in Henry S. King and Co, then on his own as Kegan Paul, then with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co before he resigned from the firm, which in 1912 joined with George Routledge and became Routledge and Kegan Paul.
After school at Ilminster, Somerset, he attended Eton College, where he later became a master, and Exeter College, Oxford. He left Oxford with a BA that he later converted into an MA.
As well as translating foreign works, he wrote on religious subjects, biographical topics and his own autobiography entitled 'Memories, which was published in 1899.
He died in West Kensington, London.
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