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Mark Kinkead-Weekes

1931 – 2011

South African literary scholar

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Lived 1931 – 2011 (aged 79). Mark Kinkead-Weekes was a literary scholar, university teacher and man of letters.

Mark Kinkead-Weekes FBA (26 April 1931 – 7 March 2011) was a South African literary scholar. From 1974 to 1984, he was professor of English and American literature at the University of Kent, where he had been an academic since 1965. He had previously taught at the University of Edinburgh from 1956 to 1965. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1992.

Publications (with Ian Gregor) William Golding: A Critical Study (London: Faber and Faber, 1967; 2nd edn, 1984; 3rd edn, 2002) Samuel Richardson: Dramatic Novelist (London: Methuen, 1973) (Editor) Twentieth-Century Interpretations of The Rainbow: A Collection of Critical Essays (Hoboken, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971) (Editor) D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912–1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

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Birth century
Education
Brasenose College
Awards
Rhodes Scholarship
Also known as
Marcus Oscar Kinkead-Weekes

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Who was Mark Kinkead-Weekes?

South African literary scholar (1931–2011)

When was Mark Kinkead-Weekes born?

Mark Kinkead-Weekes was born on 26 April 1931 in Pretoria.

When did Mark Kinkead-Weekes die?

Mark Kinkead-Weekes died on 7 March 2011.

What was Mark Kinkead-Weekes's occupation?

Mark Kinkead-Weekes was a literary scholar, university teacher and man of letters.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Mark Kinkead-Weekes

· Wikidata: Q19335533

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