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Montague Rhodes James

Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15).

Though James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some regard as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

Source: M. R. James on Wikipedia.

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20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost

Born 1 Aug 1862
Died 12 Jun 1936

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20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost

Born 1 Aug 1862
Died 12 Jun 1936
Subjects
English Ghost stories, Fiction, Fiction, ghost, Manuscripts, Fiction, short stories (single author), Manuscripts, catalogs, Ghost stories, Catalogs, Great britain, antiquities, Horror tales, American Horror tales, Illumination of books and manuscripts, short stories, Children's fiction, Short stories, Bible, Fiction, horror, History, Horror stories, short story, American literature, Criticism, interpretation, horror, Bowhunting, Classic Literature
Places
Great Britain, England, London, Cambridge, New England, Ely, Eton College, Jamaica, Massachusetts, North America, Norwich, Salem Village, Toledo, Alabama, Baker Street, Bury Saint Edmunds (England), Calcutta, Cambridge (England), Dublin, Eng Wells, Falmouth, Germany (West), Illinois, India, Ireland
People
M. R. James (1862-1936), John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Aldhelm Saint (640?-709), Billy Weaver, Carlos, Christopher Mulholland, Devil, Faith Brown, Father Time, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Gregory W. Temple, Hugh Morgan, Matthew Parker (1504-1575), William Harker, A. Hamilton Thompson (1873-1952), Alban Saint (-304?), Archie, Berenice, Bill Hutchinson, Booth, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Colonel Sartoris, Duncan Ross
Time
Medieval, 1600s, 400-1400, To 400, 1861-65, 1880 - 1912, 1889, 1890, 19th century, 20th century, 400-1450, Antebellum era, Jusqu'à 400, carnival

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  • M. R. 1862-1936 James
  • M. R. (Montague Rhodes) 1862- James

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