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Charles Isaac Elton

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Charles Isaac Elton (1839–1900) was an English lawyer, politician, and antiquary. After graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, he wrote a number of books on history and legal issues such as The Tenures of Kent (1867), Origins of English History (1882), and William Shakespeare: His family and Friends (1903). His poem “Luriana Lurilee,” was repeatedly quoted in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

 

Mary Augusta Elton (1838–1914) assisted her husband in writing The Great Book Collectors, and was an avid book collector herself.