John Matthews Manly, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Matthews Manly
American professor of English literature
Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1865
Date of Death: 02-Apr-1940
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About John Matthews Manly
- John Matthews Manly (September 2, 1865 — April 2, 1940) was an American professor of English literature and philology at the University of Chicago.
- Manly specialized in the study of the works of William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer.
- His eight-volume work, The Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940), written in collaboration with his former student Edith Rickert, has been cited as a definitive study of Chaucer's works.
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