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Frank Edgar Farley
b. 1868
A careful scholar of English language and literature, this early 20th-century teacher wrote grammar books and literary studies that stayed useful long after their first publication. His work ranges from classroom editions of Milton to a substantial study of Scandinavian influence on English Romantic writing.
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An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises
by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley
About the author
Frank Edgar Farley was an American scholar of English born in 1868. Sources connected with his academic career describe him as Professor of English at Simmons College, and list earlier teaching posts at Harvard, Radcliffe, and Haverford, along with Harvard degrees including a Ph.D.
He is best remembered as the co-author, with George Lyman Kittredge, of An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises, a practical and influential textbook. He also edited school editions of Milton's Paradise Lost and published Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement, showing a strong interest in both language study and literary history.
There are also traces of a quieter artistic side: Wesleyan University holds a small collection of Farley's landscape watercolors. That combination of literary scholarship, classroom teaching, and personal creativity gives a fuller picture of a writer whose work was meant to help readers understand how English is built and how literature travels across cultures.