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entry in Dictionary of National Biography
www.wikidata.orgCollins died in somewhat mysterious circumstances. He left Birmingham in July 1908, and subsequently made his habitual autumn sojourn in Oxford. Suffering from severe depression, he arrived on 21 August at Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft, on a visit to an intimate friend, Dr. Daniel, who was his medical adviser. On 12 September he met his death by drowning in a shallow dyke on a farm at Carlton Colville, in the neighbourhood. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The...
en.wikisource.orgJohn Churton Collins was a British literary critic.
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librivox.orgCollins was born in Gloucestershire, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Oxford. He, became in 1894 professor of English Literature at Birmingham. He wrote books on Sir J. Reynolds (1874), Voltaire in England (1886), Illustrations of Tennyson (1891), and also on Swift and Shakespeare, various collections of essays, Essays and Studies (1895), and Studies in Poetry and Criticism (1905), etc., and he issued editions of the works of C. Tourneur, Greene, Dryden, Herbert of...
pennyspoetry.fandom.com;JOHN CHURTON COLLINS (1848-1908), English literary critic, was born on the 26th of March 1848 at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire, From King Edward's school, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as
www.studylight.orgThe tragic mental collapse and subsequent passing of John Churton Collins at the young age of 60 raises many questions. While overexertion is often cited as the reason, it's worth noting that many accomplished individuals labor throughout their lives. Churton Collins was certainly diligent, having released around twenty books since 1874, predominantly focusing on literary criticism, and he also edited numerous educational texts. He contributed extensively to esteemed English journals and was...
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