William E. Fredeman fonds Compiled by Erwin Wodarczak (2001, 2003) Table of Contents - Title / Dates of Creation / Physical Description
Biographical Sketch Scope and Content ... Catalogue entry (UBC Library) Fonds Description William E. Fredeman fonds. 2.78 m of textual records and other material. William Evan (Dick) Fredeman was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1928. He was raised in Little Rock and attended schools in Arkansas and in Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and then attended university in Arkansas and Oklahoma (Ph.D., 1956). While teaching high school and completing his graduate degrees, he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve. Fredeman joined UBC's Department of English in 1956. He received the first of many Canada Council, SSHRC, Killam, and Guggenheim Fellowship grants in 1959 and spent the following year in London doing research for Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study, based on his Ph.D. dissertation, which was published in 1965. Although he was enormously interested in and published widely about the Victorian era, Fredeman continued to focus on the Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters for the rest of his life. He wrote more than fifty articles and reviews on Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, Tennyson, and bibliography, as well as the Introductions to A Bookman's Catalogue: The Norman Colbeck Collection of nineteenth century and Edwardian poetry and belles lettres in the Special Collections of the University of British Columbia | |
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