Donald Adamson

Donald Adamson (Born 1939 in Culcheth, Cheshire ) is a French literature critic, biographer and historian. He has written thirteen books including Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God. His most recently published book is The Curriers' Company: A Modern History.

Contents 1 Education 2 Fellowships 3 Honours 4 Bibliography 5 External links

Education

• Manchester Grammar School (1949-1956)
• Magdalen College, Oxford (1956-1959)
• University of Paris (1960-1961)

Fellowships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Honours

• Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes académiques

Bibliography

• The Genesis of Le Cousin Pons (1966)
• The Black Sheep (trans. Balzac's La Rabouilleuse) (1970)
• Dusty Heritage (1971)
• T. S. Eliot: A Memoir (ed.) (1971)
• The House of Nell Gwyn: The Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family, 1670-1974 (jntly) (1974)
• Ursule Mirouët (trans. Balzac) (1976)
• A Rescue Policy for Museums (1980)
• Balzac: Illusions Perdues (1981)
• Les Romantiques français devant la peinture espagnole (1988)
  • (republished as Interprètes français de la peinture espagnole à l'époque romantique (1990)
• presented Old Goriot in Everyman series (1991)
• Bed 29 & Other Stories: An Anthology of 26 of Maupassant's Short Stories (1993)
• Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God (1995)
• Rides Round Britain: The Travel Journals of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (ed.) (1996)
• The Curriers' Company: A Modern History (2000)
• Balzac and the Tradition of the European Novel (2001)

External links

• The Dodmore website

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