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![]() Kittredge garnered highest honors and joined several clubs, wrote light verse, and won Bowdoin prizes for his essays and translations, including one from English into Attic Greek. George consistently led his class in marks and won a scholarship to Harvard, which he entered in 1878.Īs a freshman, George lived at home in Boston and walked to Harvard every day to save money. Their precocious and bookish son George attended The Roxbury Latin School, which then had about a hundred pupils. Deborah Lewis Benson, and start a family. His father, Edward "Kit" Lyman Kittredge, participated in the California Gold Rush of 1849, been shipwrecked, and had walked 700 miles across the desert before returning to Boston to marry a widow, Mrs. Kittredge was born in Boston on February 28, 1860. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England. ![]() He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. George Lyman Kittredge (Febru– July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. ![]()
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