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Edwin W. (Edwin Winfield) Bowen
1866–1953
A teacher and language scholar with a long career at Randolph-Macon College, he wrote about American literature, English speech, and the history of language. His work has the feel of a classroom guide shaped by decades of study and teaching.
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Questions at Issue in Our English Speech
by Edwin W. (Edwin Winfield) Bowen
About the author
Born in 1866, Edwin Winfield Bowen was an American educator and writer whose published work ranged from literary study to language history. Records of his books show titles such as Makers of American Literature, Questions at Issue in Our English Speech, and An Historical Study of the O-Vowel in Accented Syllables in English.
Available reference sources describe him as an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri in the early 1890s and, for much of his career, a professor of Latin at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. Those same sources note that he remained associated with Randolph-Macon for decades and retired from the department chairmanship in 1950.
Bowen died in 1953. Though not a household name today, he stands out as one of those scholar-teachers whose books grew directly out of a lifetime in the classroom, bringing literary and language study to general readers and students.