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John Bayley
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Wrote a book, Widower's House, about his adventures with the women who pursued him after his first wife's death.
Educated at Eton and Oxford.
Was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1960-1990.
Second wife Audi Villers is an old friend of the family.
He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1999 for his services to Literature.
He was the youngest of three boys in a British military family. He was born in Lahore, and grew up in England.
He served in the Grenadier Guards during WWII.
Is a literary critic and author, known for his writings on
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Alexander Pushkin
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Jane Austen
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Thomas Hardy
, and
Henry James
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