Background
The son of an apothecary, Henry Morley was born in Hatton Garden, London.
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Jerome Cardan: The life of Girolamo Cardano, of Milan, physician
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Palissy the Potter. The Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes. In Two Volumes.
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Cornelius Agrippa
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Henry Morley
Henry Morley was a writer on English literature and one of the earliest Professors of English Literature.
Education
Henry Morley was educated at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's College London.
Career
Henry Morley wrote in periodicals (including Household Words and All the Year Round for Charles Dickens), and from 1859–1864 edited the Examiner. From 1865-1889, he was Professor of English Literature at University College London, where among his pupils was Rabindranath Tagore. From 1882 to 1889, he was principal of University Hall, as Arthur Hugh Clough had been a generation before. The building, on the west side of Gordon Square in the heart of Bloomsbury, at that time also housed Manchester New College, and is now the home of Doctor Williams"s Library.
His biography was written by Henry Shaen Solly, the son of prominent reformer Henry Solly.
Achievements
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Henry Morley edited a large number of classics for Morley's Classical Library and Cassell's National Library and is perhaps best remembered for his zeal in making literature widely available.
Works
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Cornelius Agrippa
(This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)
- Jerome Cardan: The life of Girolamo Cardano, of Milan, physician
- Palissy the Potter. The Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes. In Two Volumes.
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Cornelius Agrippa
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Died
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Nationality
United Kingdom