David Masson

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David Masson was a 19th-century Scottish literary critic, biographer, and professor best known for his scholarship on John Milton and his influential role in Victorian literary culture.

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instanceOf Scottish person
biographer
human
literary critic
university professor
birthDate 1822-12-02
birthPlace Aberdeen NERFINISHED
Scotland
burialPlace Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh NERFINISHED
child Rosaline Masson NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfRetirement 1895
deathDate 1907-10-06
educatedAt Marischal College, Aberdeen NERFINISHED
University of Aberdeen NERFINISHED
employer University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED
era Victorian era
ethnicGroup Scottish
familyName Masson NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork English literature
biography
literary criticism
genre literary biography
literary criticism
givenName David NERFINISHED
influenced Victorian literary studies
knownFor contributions to Victorian literary culture
scholarship on John Milton
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society of Edinburgh NERFINISHED
name David Masson NERFINISHED
notableStudent Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED
notableWork Life of John Milton NERFINISHED
The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time NERFINISHED
occupation biographer
literary critic
professor of rhetoric and English literature
positionHeld Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh
religion Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism
spouse Emily Rosaline Orme NERFINISHED
subjectOf studies on John Milton
workLocation Edinburgh NERFINISHED
London, England
surface form: London

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