Whitwell Elwin

Whitwell Elwin

Whitwell Elwin (1816 - 1900), critic and editor, son of a country gentleman of Norfolk, studied at Cambridge, and took orders. He was an important contributor to the "Quarterly Review", of which he became editor in 1853.

He undertook to complete Croker's edition of Alexander Pope, and brought out five volumes, when he dropped it, leaving it to be finished by Mr.Courthope. As an editor he was extremely autocratic, and on all subjects had pronounced opinions, and often singular likes and dislikes.


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