Richard D. Altick (1915–2008)

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1. Richard D. Altick

   Author of Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature, Art of Literary Research, The Scholar Adventurers

2. Joseph Gibaldi

   Author of MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures

3. Wilkie Collins

   Author of No Name, Armadale, Basil

4. M. H. Abrams

   Author of A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature

5. Elizabeth Gaskell

   Author of North and South, Wives and Daughters, Mary Barton

6. James L. Harner

   Author of Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies

7. Daniel Pool

   Author of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists

8. Mary Elizabeth Braddon

   Author of Lady Audley's Secret, The Doctor's Wife, The Trail of the Serpent

9. I. A. Richards

   Author of Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment

10. Asa Briggs

    Author of Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67, Victorian Cities

11. Walter E. Houghton

    Author of The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870

12. Maria Edgeworth

    Author of Castle Rackrent, Belinda, The Absentee

13. Cleanth Brooks

    Author of The Well Wrought Urn, Understanding Poetry

14. Eliza Fowler Haywood

    Author of Love in Excess, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

15. C. Hugh Holman

    Author of A handbook to literature

16. William Proctor Williams

    Author of An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies

17. Judith Flanders

    Author of The Victorian House

18. E. M. W. Tillyard

    Author of The Elizabethan World Picture

19. Nancy Armstrong

    Author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel

20. Jonathan Rose

    Author of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale Nota Bene)