Background
Houghton, Walter Edwards was born on September 21, 1904 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Walter Edwards and Nancy (Acheson) Houghton.
Houghton, Walter Edwards was born on September 21, 1904 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Walter Edwards and Nancy (Acheson) Houghton.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Yale 1924, Master of Arts, 1927, Doctor of Philosophy., 1931. D.L.H. (honorary), Wellesley College, 1976.
Instructor, Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1924-1925, Phillips Andover Academy, 1927-1929. Instructor, tutor in history and literature Harvard, Radcliffe College, 1931-1938, assistant professor, tutor history and literature, 1938-1941. Associate Professor of English literature Wellesley College, 1942-1948, Professor of English literature, 1948-1969, Sophie C. Hart Professor of English, 1957-1969.
Active in Civil Defense, Cambridge and Wellesley, Massachusetts, World World War World War II.
Author: The Formation of Thomas Fuller’s Holy and Profane States, 1938. The Art of Newman’s Apologia, 1945. The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870, 1957.
The Poetry of Clough, 1963. Editor: (with Spencer, Ferry, Barrows) British Literature from 1800 to the Present Day, 1952, 3d edit., 1974. (with G. Robert Stange) Victorian Poetry and Poetics, 1959, 2d. edit., 1968.
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, volunteer 1, 1966, volunteer II, 1972. Advisory editor Victorian Studies, 1960-1969, Victorian Poetry, 1963-1976.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Conference British Studies, Modern Language Association.
Married Esther Lowrey Rhoads, June 22, 1929. Children: Nancy Acheson, Esther Edwards.