biography
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Methuen, Sir Algernon (Methuen Marshall)
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originally Stedman
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pronunciation:
[methyooen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1924)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in London, UK. He was a teacher of classics and French (1880–95), and began publishing as a sideline with Methuen & Co in 1889 to market his own textbooks. His first publishing success was Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), and he also published works of Belloc, R L Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. He was created a baronet in 1916. |
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