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Irene Langridge
Best known for an early and accessible study of William Blake, this little-known writer helped bring the poet and artist’s life and ideas to a wider audience. Her work has remained in circulation through major library and public-domain collections.
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William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work
by Irene Langridge
About the author
Little is easy to confirm about Irene Langridge’s life, but reliable catalog and authority records do identify her as a writer, and her best-known work is William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work, first published in London in 1904.
That book introduced readers to Blake’s life, art, and imaginative world in a clear, approachable way. It has been preserved by Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and library authority records, which suggests it has had a lasting place as a readable early study of Blake.
Because solid biographical details about Langridge herself are scarce in the sources available here, it is safer to remember her through the work she left behind: a concise literary and art-critical portrait of one of England’s most original creative figures.