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4 unusual facts about Henry William Weber


Henry William Weber

He was "afflicted with partial insanity," especially under the influence of strong drinks, to which he was occasionally addicted (Scott, Journal, 1890, i. 149).

Henry William Weber (1783–1818) was an English editor of plays and romances and literary assistant of Sir Walter Scott.

He is said to have been the son of a Westphalian who married an Englishwoman, and to have been born at St. Petersburg in 1783.

Richard Coer de Lyon

The Gonville and Caius manuscript was used by Henry Weber for an edition of the poem included in his Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries (1810).



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