biography
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Cecil, Lord (Edward Christian) David (Gascoyne)
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pronunciation:
[sesil]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1902–86)
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| biography:
| Literary critic, born in London, UK. He was professor of English literature at Oxford (1948–70), and is known chiefly as a literary biographer, in such works as Sir Walter Scott (1933), Jane Austen (1935), and Thomas Hardy (1943). |
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