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Who are these Fowlers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2003

Robert Allen
Robert Allen
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ROBERT ALLEN in Edinburgh, formerly himself an Oxford lexicographer
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‘Who are these Fowlers?’ wrote a reviewer in the New York Times, quoted on page 56 of this much-needed biography of the more famous of the brothers, Henry Watson Fowler. The review was not of Modern English Usage or any of their other well-known books, but of an earlier work they wrote for Oxford University Press, a translation of the Syrian Greek writer Lucian of Samosata, published in 1905, the work that first brought them into contact with the strange world of academic publishing.

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Review
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English Today , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 62 - 64
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© Cambridge University Press 2003

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