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A.L. Rowse

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Born: December 03 1903

Died: 0202 10 19971997

Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH FBA, known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish historian. He is perhaps best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his work on Elizabethan England. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer. He developed a widespread reputation for irascibility and intellectual arrogance.

One of Rowse's great enthusiasms was collecting books, and he owned many first editions, many of them bearing his acerbic annotations. For example, his copy of the January 1924 edition of The Adelphi magazine edited by John Middleton Murry bears a pencilled note after Murry's poem In Memory of Katherine Mansfield: 'Sentimental gush on the part of JMM. And a bad poem. A.L.R.'

Upon his death in 1997 he bequeathed his book collection to the University of Exeter, and his personal archive of manuscripts, diaries, and correspondence. In 1998 the University Librarian selected about sixty books from Rowse’s own working library and a complete set of his published books. The Royal Institution of Cornwall selected some of the remaining books, and the rest were sold to dealers.

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Books from A.L. Rowse

Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses

Homosexuals in History

The England of Elizabeth

Shakespeare the Man

A Man of Singular Virtue

Apa Guna Sejarah?

The Expansion of Elizabethan England

The Annotated Shakespeare Volume II: The Histories, Sonnets And Other Poems

Clemenceau and the Third Republic

The Annotated Shakespeare: Volume II: The Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems

First Colonists: Hakluyt's Voyages to North America; a Modern Version

Peter, the white cat of Trenarren,

Howard

The Churchills: The Story of a Family

The Byrons and Trevanions

Annotated Shakespeare

The Story of Britain

Henry VI part one / Henry VI part two / Henry VI part three / King John / Pericles / Titus Andronicus (The Contemporary Shakespeare Series, Volume VII)

Tudor Cornwall

Eminent Elizabethans