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Irene Langridge
An early 20th-century writer best known for a lively study of William Blake, bringing the poet and artist's life and work to general readers. Her surviving public record is sparse, which gives her book an added sense of discovery.
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William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work
by Irene Langridge
About the author
Irene Langridge was a writer whose best-known work is William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work, published in 1904. The book introduces Blake's life, ideas, and art in a readable way, and it has remained available through major public-domain and library collections.
Reliable public information about Langridge herself is limited. Library and authority records confirm her as a writer, and Wikidata records her death as October 27, 1955, but beyond that, biographical details are hard to verify from readily available sources.
That scarcity makes her work especially interesting: for many readers, Langridge is known chiefly through the clarity and enthusiasm of her writing on Blake. Her book endures as a window into how early 20th-century readers approached one of England's most distinctive artists and poets.