school-mastered

Updated: June 20, 2025

He wrote a little for Blackwood; he took pupils unsuccessfully, and school-mastered with a little better success; and during a short time he lived with a Leeds publisher who took a fancy to him and induced him to write his only large book, the Biographia Borealis.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)