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Denson, Alan

 Person

Biographical Note

Alan Denson was born in 1929 in Rochford, Essex, and was a self-published compiler, bibliographer, and editor of works about Irish artists and writers, including sculptor John Hughes, painter William John Leech, and the writer and poet George William Russell, better known as AE. He is best known for his work as the editor of Letters from AE (1961), for which Monk Gibbon wrote the introduction.

Sources:

"Alan Denson in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005," Ancestry.com. Accessed 12 January 2017. /ancstry.me/2jIPIqv> .

Denson, Alan. John Hughes, sculptor, 1865-1941: a documentary biography. Kendal Westmorland: Alan Denson, 1969.

Denson, Alan, ed. Letters from A.E. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1961.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Boston College collection of Monk Gibbon

 Collection
Abstract

This collection documents the life of Irish author Monk Gibbon through his correspondence and manuscripts held in the papers of two of his peers: his bibliographer Alan Denson and one of his early publishers Alan Steele. Also included are portraits of Gibbon and his family, which may have belonged to Denson.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1929 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1975