James Lewis May
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James Lewis May (10 August 1873 – 28 May 1961) was an English author and translator.
Biography
James Lewis May was born in Holloway, London, the son of Lewis James May and Jane Trible. Throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s, he wrote critical studies of writers such as Charles Lamb and George Eliot. May converted to Roman Catholicism and subsequently wrote studies on Cardinal John Henry Newman and George Tyrrell. He also translated works of French writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Arthur de Gobineau, Joseph Peyré, Paul Hazard and specially Anatole France.
Works
- Anatole France, the Man and his Work: An Essay in Critical Biography (1924)
- Cardinal Newman (1929; 1951)
- George Eliot: A Study (1930)
- The Path through the Wood (1930; essays)
- An English Treasury of Religious Prose (1932; editor)
- Father Tyrrell and the Modernist Movement (1932)
- The Unchanging Witness: Some Detached Reflections on the Oxford Movement and Its Future (1933)
- Charles Lamb: A Study (1934)
- Thorn and Flower (1935; reminiscences)
- John Lane and the Nineties (1936)
- Fénelon: A Study (1938)
- Cardinal Newman and Education (1945)
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