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Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a man of many talents: a physician, a scholar and educator, a columnist, and the editor of multi-volume collections of both English and world literature. He rubbed shoulders with the leading literary figures of his day—Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, the Brownings—and the Dictionary of National Biography eulogized him for his work “as a populariser of literature.”
In 1883, Morley edited a three-volume edition of The Spectator. The Spectator was a favorite of John Steinbeck, who grew up reading his grandfather’s copy of the Morley 1883 edition and took it with him on his Travels with Charley.
References
Banerjee, Jacqueline. “Henry Morley (1822-1894).” The Victorian Web.
Hunter, Fred. "Morley, Henry (1822-1894)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.