George Lyman Kittredge
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George Lyman Kittredge was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also inv
A 1906 portrait of Kittredge
The first page of a 1946 edition of Kittredge's Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare
Roxbury Latin School
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The Roxbury Latin School is a private, college-preparatory, all-boys day school located in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1645 by Puritan missionary John Eliot, Roxbury Latin bills it
George Lyman Kittredge
…the desert before returning to Boston to marry a widow, Mrs. Deborah Lewis Benson, and start a family. Their precocious and bookish son George attended The Roxbury Latin School, which then had about a hundred pupils. George consistently led his class in marks and won a scholarship to Harvard, which he entered in 1878. As a…
Rev. John Eliot (1604–1690), founder of Roxbury Latin School