Arthur Augustus Tilley  

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Arthur Augustus Tilley (1 December 1851 – 4 December 1942) was an academic of the University of Cambridge. An Old Etonian, his first subject at Cambridge was Classics, after which he began a career as a barrister. He returned to his old college to teach Classics, going on to specialise in French literature and becoming both a literary critic and a historian.

He was a connoisseur of French Renaissance literature and author of The Literature of the French Renaissance (1904).

Major publications

• The Literature of the French Renaissance (1904)

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• From Montaigne to Molière (1908)<ref name=who/>
• The Dawn of the French Renaissance (1918)<ref name=who/>
• Cambridge Readings in French Literature (1920)<ref name=who/>
• Molière (1921)<ref name=who/>
• Studies in the French Renaissance (1922)<ref name=who/>
• The decline of the age of Louis XIV: or, French literature, 1687–1715<ref name=who/>
• Three French Dramatists: Racine, Marivaux, Musset<ref name=who/>
• Madame de Sévigné: some aspects of her life and character<ref name=who/><ref>outline at books.google.com</ref>
• Medieval France: a companion to French studies, vol. 5 (1922)<ref>outline and contents at books.google.com</ref>
• The Reformation in France in Cambridge Modern History vol. II The Reformation: The end of the Middle Ages (1903)
• The Early Renaissance in Cambridge Mediaeval History, vol. 7 (1932)
• The Renaissance in Europe in Cambridge Mediaeval History, vol. 8 (1936)