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James Fitzmaurice

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1858–1923), English writer on Spanish literature

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

He was a Taylor Lecturer at Oxford University from 1902 and was invited to the United States in 1907 to deliver speeches at the Hispanic Society of America and several American Universities such as Harvard University and Yale University.

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Obtaining work in 1885 as a tutor in Jerez de la Frontera to Buenaventura Misa y Busheroy, the son of the I Count of Bayona, later the Marquis of Misa.

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In 1898 he published his Historia de la literatura española in the Collection of Literatures of the World under Edmund Gosse.

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Born in Glasgow, He was the son of Colonel Thomas Kelly of the 40th Regiment of Foot and was educated at St Charles's College, Kensington, where he learned Spanish from a fellow pupil and taught himself to read Don Quixote.

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