Horace Howard Furness

(1833-1912)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 LBT ID: HoFurne1912 VIAF ID: 42617947 LOC ID: n83152267	B/BAP: 1833-11-02 DIED: 1912-08-13
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Harvard-educated lawyer and Shakespeare scholar; his massive variorum edition of Shakespeare began appearing in 1871. He was the brother of the architect Frank Furness.
REFERENCES TO Horace Howard Furness: Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 6