Name Caleb Winchester | Education Wesleyan University | |
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Died 1920, Middletown, Connecticut, United States Books Some Principles of Literary, William Wordsworth: How to K, A group of English essayists, The life of John Wesley, An Old Castle and Other Ess | ||
Caleb Thomas Winchester (January 18, 1847 – March 24, 1920) was an American English scholar.
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Biography
He was born in Montville, Connecticut. He prepared for college at Wilbraham Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He then attended Wesleyan University, where he graduated in 1869. He remained at Wesleyan, where he was librarian until 1873, professor of rhetoric and English literature until 1890, and simply professor of English literature after that. During 1880-81 he studied in Leipzig, Germany. He was noted for the quality of his lectures.
He married Julia Stackpole Smith in 1872. She died in 1877, and he married Alice Goodwin Smith in 1880.
Works
He wrote:
Besides serving on the deliberative assembly which revised The Methodist Hymnal, he edited:
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