Eric Sutherland Robertson Explained

Eric Sutherland Robertson (1857 – 24 May 1926)^{[1] [2]} was a Scottish man of letters, academic in India, and clergyman.

Life

Robertson graduated at Edinburgh University in 1873 and then moved to London where he became a journalist.^[2] Between 1880 and 1881 Robertson edited the Magazine of Art.^[3] In 1882 he shared rooms at 18 Clement's Inn with his journalist friend Hall Caine, where they often hosted intellectual gatherings. They frequently had their evening meals delivered from nearby Clare Market, which were brought by two young women. Months later their father's confronted Robertson and Caine demanding marriage, claiming the young women had been ‘ruined’. According to Caine's biographer, nothing more than 'a bit of flirting' had taken place.^[4] Robertson moved to Redhill, Chislehurst and wrote English Poetesses, published by Cassell in September 1883.

In 1884 Robertson acted as best man for his friend William Sharp.^[5] He set up the Great Writers series, published from 1887.^[6] At the same period he was appointed to Lahore Government College of the University of the Punjab, where he was Professor of English Literature and Philosophy.^[3]

From 1896 Robertson was vicar of Bowness-on-Windermere.^[7]

Works

• English Poetesses: A Series of Critical Biographies (1883)^[8]
• Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887)^[8]
• The Dreams of Christ, and Other Verses (1891)^[8]
• Wordsworth and the English Lake Country: An Introduction to a Poet's Country (1911)
• The Bible's Prose Epic of Eve and her Sons: the 'J' Stories in Genesis
• Wordsworthshire
• From Alleys and Valleys^[8]
• The Human Bible: A Study in the Divine (1920)

External links

• • • Online Books page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eric Sutherland Robertson. Statutory Births 1855-2013. 23 March 2015. ScotlandsPeople. subscription. 21 November 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081121080520/http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search/birth/index.aspx. dead.
2. News: Distinguished St Andrews Resident Dead. 25 May 1926. Dundee Courier. British Newspaper Archive. 23 March 2015.
3. Book: Roger W. Peattie. Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. August 1986. Penn State Press. 0-271-02662-6. 498 note 1.
4. Book: Vivien Allen. Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer. 1 July 1997. A&C Black. 978-1-85075-809-9. 153–4.
5. Book: Elizabeth Amelia Sharp. William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by his wife Elizabeth A. Sharp. 11 December 2014. New York Duffield & Company. 66. GGKEY:CE1WA7HLC8Z.
6. Book: George Alexander Kennedy. A. Walton Litz. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism. 10 August 2000. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-30012-4. 381.
7. Web site: Bowness-on-Windermeer History & Genealogy Resources, Windermere, Westmorland. 23 March 2015.
8. Book: Frederick Wilse Bateson. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1966. CUP Archive. 355–. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.