Mr William St Clair FBA

English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1992
Year of birth
1937
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Literature

Last post

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Past appointments

Institute for Fiscal Studies Senior Research Fellow

2005 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow

1998 -

School of Advanced Study, University of London Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies

1998 -

Publications

Mapping lives: the uses of biography

Published in 2002

Lord Elgin and the marbles

Published in 1967

That Greece might still be free

Published in 1972

The Godwins and the Shelleys

Published in 1989

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