Peter Martin | |
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Born | 1940 (age 83–84)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
[1] |
Nationality | Argentina, United States, England, Spain |
Education | Principia College (1962), Syracuse University (2020) |
Occupation(s) | Historian, biographer, English literature scholar |
Known for | English literature scholar |
Peter Martin (born 1940) is an English literature scholar, biographer, and an 18th century garden historian. He was educated and has taught in the United States. He lives in England and Spain.
Martin has been a professor at Miami University; [2] the College of William & Mary; [3] New England College in Arundale, West Sussex, England; [3] and in the English department of Principia College (1993–2002). [4] [5] For several years, he was a garden historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. [3] [6] [5]
He has written several books on historical and biographical topics, including Samuel Johnson: A Biography, A Life of James Boswell, and about Edmond Malone. [7] His has written about gardens and gardening in Williamsburg and Colonial Virginia, including British and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, [6] The Gardening World of Alexander Pope and Pursuing Innocent Pleasures. [8] He also created 'the dictionary wars' in American lexicography [7] and A Dog Called Perth about the 21-year relationship with his dog. [5]
Martin was born and lived in Argentina until the age of ten. He is a 1962 graduate of the Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. [5] He has lived in a village in Sussex, England and El Campello, Spain. [5]
Martin's is not the first biography to make use of the Yale archive. Boswell's earlier and later careers were written up by Frederick A. Pottle and Frank Brady, in two densely documented, though readable, works of record. This new life of James Boswell makes available to nonscholarly readers a vivid and sensitively observed narrative that takes account of the full range of new information.
In conveying a picture of this constant wavering, Martin's treatment of his material is dextrous and assured, and he offers a refreshingly ambiguous portrait of his subject.
Peter Martin | |
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Born | 1940 (age 83–84)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
[1] |
Nationality | Argentina, United States, England, Spain |
Education | Principia College (1962), Syracuse University (2020) |
Occupation(s) | Historian, biographer, English literature scholar |
Known for | English literature scholar |
Peter Martin (born 1940) is an English literature scholar, biographer, and an 18th century garden historian. He was educated and has taught in the United States. He lives in England and Spain.
Martin has been a professor at Miami University; [2] the College of William & Mary; [3] New England College in Arundale, West Sussex, England; [3] and in the English department of Principia College (1993–2002). [4] [5] For several years, he was a garden historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. [3] [6] [5]
He has written several books on historical and biographical topics, including Samuel Johnson: A Biography, A Life of James Boswell, and about Edmond Malone. [7] His has written about gardens and gardening in Williamsburg and Colonial Virginia, including British and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, [6] The Gardening World of Alexander Pope and Pursuing Innocent Pleasures. [8] He also created 'the dictionary wars' in American lexicography [7] and A Dog Called Perth about the 21-year relationship with his dog. [5]
Martin was born and lived in Argentina until the age of ten. He is a 1962 graduate of the Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. [5] He has lived in a village in Sussex, England and El Campello, Spain. [5]
Martin's is not the first biography to make use of the Yale archive. Boswell's earlier and later careers were written up by Frederick A. Pottle and Frank Brady, in two densely documented, though readable, works of record. This new life of James Boswell makes available to nonscholarly readers a vivid and sensitively observed narrative that takes account of the full range of new information.
In conveying a picture of this constant wavering, Martin's treatment of his material is dextrous and assured, and he offers a refreshingly ambiguous portrait of his subject.