Biographie de David Cecil
David Cecil (1902-86), son of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Wadham College (1924-30) and of New College (1936-69), and was Goldsmith Professor of English Literature at Oxford from 1948 to 1970.
His many books include: The Stricken Deer (1929), Sir Walter Scott (1933), Jane Austen (1935), The Young Melbourne (1939), Thomas Hardy (1943), Lord M (1954), The Fine Art of Reading (1957), Max (1964), The Cecils of Hatfield House (1973), A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978) and A Portrait of Charles Lamb (1983).