Who are these Fowlers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20358210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Allen (0000-0003-2885-1758, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 62-64 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266078403003134 |
| OpenAlex | W2047478343 |
| Language | EN |
‘Who are these Fowlers?’ wrote a reviewer in the New York Times , quoted on page 56 of this much-needed biography of the more famous of the brothers, Henry Watson Fowler. The review was not of Modern English Usage or any of their other well-known books, but of an earlier work they wrote for Oxford University Press, a translation of the Syrian Greek writer Lucian of Samosata, published in 1905, the work that first brought them into contact with the strange world of academic publishing
Art · Art history · Biography · Literature · Publishing · Watson · African history and culture analysis · Classics · Computer Science · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |