Storey, Graham 1920–2005

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born November 8, 1920, in Sheffield, England; died November 6, 2005, in Cambridge, England. A longtime faculty member of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Storey was particularly noted for his monumental work in editing the correspondence of Charles Dickens. Completing his undergraduate work at Trinity Hall in 1941, he served in the British Royal Artillery during World War II, achieving the rank of lieutenant. He returned to Trinity to earn his master's degree and read for the Bar, which he passed in 1950. Storey never practiced law, however, and instead continued his work as a fellow at Trinity Hall. He served there as senior tutor from 1958 to 1968 and as vice master from 1970 to 1974. In addition, he was a lecturer in English at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1981, chaired the faculty board of English from 1972 to 1974, and was a reader in English from 1981 until his 1988 retirement. Storey became involved with the Dickens project after Humphry House, who had been organizing the letters, died unexpectedly in 1955. Over the next five decades, Storey collected and edited the Dickens papers, publishing twelve volumes from 1965 to 2002. This extraordinary work led to his appointment to the Order of the British Empire in 1997. Storey edited several other literary works, as well, and was the author of such books as Gerard Manley Hopkins (1984) and David Copperfield: Interweaving Truth and Fiction (1991).

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Independent (London, England), November 15, 2005, p. 59.

Times (London, England), November 18, 2005, p. 69.