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Article: In memoriam: Barry Roth: 1942-2008.(Obituary)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Barry Roth, indefatigable compiler of Jane Austen studies and Professor of English at Ohio University, died on August 17, 2008, as a result of a brain tumor. Barry was among the members of the Jane Austen Society whom Joan Austen-Leigh and J. David Grey contacted in 1979 at the founding of the new Jane Austen Society of North America.
Anyone who searched for scholarly work on Austen before the days of computerized databases understands the inestimable value of Barry Roth's compendious and systematic bibliographies. In 1973, with Joel Weinsheiiner, he ...