Edwin Percy Whipple was an American essayist and critic. Wikipedia
Born: March 8, 1819, Gloucester, MA
Died: June 16, 1886 (age 67 years), Boston, MA
Edited works: The Writings of Charles Dickens, Substance and Show: And Other Lectures, Little Dorrit, and more
Books
David Copperfield (with an Introduction by Edwin Percy Whipple)
Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays. by Lord Macaulay. with a Memoir and Index Volume 4
The Writings of Charles Dickens. With Critical and Bibliographical Introductions and Notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and Others; Illustrated With Steel Portraits and Engravings From the Original Designs by Browne, Cruikshank, Leech, and Others Volume 18
Eulogy on John Albion Andrew
1867
The Dickens dictionary, a key to the plot and characters in the tales of Charles Dickens, with copious indexes and bibliography; by Gilbert A. Pierce, with additions by William A. Wheeler. New and rev. ed
Some Recollections of Emerson in Recollections of Eminent Men