This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips (1820-1889), the eminent
Shakespearean scholar and author, whom critics of widely diverse
orientation recognize as the greatest contributor of his age to our
knowledge of Shakespeare's life and times. Halliwell was a man of
prodigious energy and wide interests. Some six hundred publications
deal not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature but also
with mathematics, lexicography, the history of science,
archaeology, dialectology, history and theology. He was a founder
or council member of the Shakespeare Society, Percy Society, Camden
Society, among others, as well as a member of numerous local,
national and international organizations. Before the age of 20 he
was Fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. In
the course of his career he received many other honours, at home
and abroad: at age 18, he was the youngest Fellow ever elected to
the Royal Society, and he became the first honorary member of the
Shakespeare Society of New York. Also noteworthy were his efforts
to establish Stratford-upon-Avon as a fitting memorial to
Shakespeare, beginning with his purchase of Shakespeare's house,
New Place, and continuing with his promotion of its library and
museum. From beginning to end, his life was colourful as well as
productive: his exclusion in the mid-1840s from the British Museum
Library for purportedly stealing manuscripts from Trinity College,
Cambridge (where he had been a student), caused a national uproar,
as did his involvement toward the end of the century, along with
Algernon Swinburne, in a controversy with F.J. Furnivall and his
New Shakespeare Society over the direction of literary studies.
Very Victorian was Halliwell's long conflict with his
father-in-law, the renowned collector Sir Thomas Phillips, who was
enraged and unforgiving because Halliwell had eloped with his
daughter. Halliwell's life affords a panoramic as well as a
personal view of Victorian literary theory and practice, the
founding and organization of scholarly societies, popular
education, the book trade, and, not the least interesting, the
domestic everyday of England in the 19th century.
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