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M. R. James

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Also known as Montague Rhodes James, M.R. James, MR James, M R James

20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936)

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M. R. James, born Montague Rhodes James in Dover in 1862, was a British writer, children’s writer, prose writer, and art historian. He wrote in English and was educated at King’s College. His professional career began in 1893, during which he was employed by King’s College and Eton College. He was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy, and the Medieval Academy of America.

James is known for works in the genres of ghost story and children’s literature. His notable works include *Ghost Stories of an Antiquary*, *The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover*, *The apocryphal New Testament*, *The history of Lambeth Palace Library*, *The Medieval Manuscript Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge*, and *More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary*. He received an honorary doctorate and was a Fellow of the British Academy. He died in Eton on 12 June 1936.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1 Aug 1862
Died
12 Jun 1936
Works
256

Top works

  • The sculptured bosses in the roof of the Bauchun Chapel of Our Lady of Pity in Norwich Cathedral
  • The Dublin Apocalypse
  • The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover
  • The apocryphal New Testament
  • On fine art as applied to the illustration of the Bible in the ninth and five following centuries exemplified chiefly by Cambridge mss

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Writing · Dover, Kent, England

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the…

Known for

  • M.R. James: Supernatural Storyteller — Self2004

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1862
Active to
1936
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
400
Total plays
51,587

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Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predece

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 85,040x

  2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

    · 1976 · cited 68,291x

  3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,856x

  4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,510x

  5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

    · 1988 · cited 31,716x

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Quotes

  • “I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.”
  • “"There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning…He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive."”
  • “A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!"”
  • “Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
James
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Dover
Place of death
Eton
Occupation
art historian
Employer
Eton College
Languages spoken
English language
Image
MRJames1900.jpg
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date of birth
1862-08-01
date of death
1936-06-12
Commons category
M. R. James
name in native language
Montague Rhodes James
start of work period
1893-00-00
Commons Creator page
Montague Rhodes James
writing language
English language
P12749
2010 SummerSlam
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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to M. R. James, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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