Peter Martin

Peter Martin (born 1940) is an English literature scholar, biographer, and an 18th-century garden historian. He was educated and has taught in the United States. He lives in England and Spain.

Biography Martin has been a professor of English Literature at Miami University; the College of William & Mary; New England College in Arundel, West Sussex, England; His has also published about gardens and gardening in Williamsburg and Colonial Virginia, including British and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, The Gardening World of Alexander Pope and Pursuing Innocent Pleasures. He also authored the highly acclaimed The Dictionary Wars about American lexicography He earned his PhD from Syracuse University. He spends his time between West Sussex, England and El Campello, Spain.

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