Obituary of Andrew Brown

Authors

• Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester

Date of this Version

2014

Document Type

Article

Citation

The George Eliot Review 45 (2014)

Comments

Published by The George Eliot Review Online https://GeorgeEliotReview.org

Abstract

I first met Andrew Brown on the conference circuit in the early 1980s. As the recently appointed senior editor for literature at Cambridge University Press he was a regular presence at Victorian Studies conferences, wearing his Press hat, but unlike many other publishers, attending as a productive scholar in his own right. He got in touch with me in 1989 asking if he could come to Leicester to talk about a project he was contemplating, a new edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, the nineteenth-century volume of which had been last updated under George Watson's editorship in 1969. I was intrigued by the prospect. I was equally surprised several days later to receive a phone message from his office to say that unfortunately Dr Brown had broken his arm in a cricket match at the weekend, and was unable to drive to Leicester. Would I mind coming to Cambridge instead?