Alfred Tennyson (poet laureate), Warren De la Rue (astronomer, chemist, and inventor), Richard Chenevix Trench (Irish ecclesiastic). Anne Hudson was the director from 2006 to 2013. The current director is Vincent Gillespie. Logo The Society emblem is a representation of the enamel plaque of the Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel, omitting its gold frame, but with an added scroll bearing the Society's name. Cultural references A. N. Wilson's novel Wise Virgin (1982) centres on Giles Fox, a blind scholar who has spent 20 years editing the Tretis of Loue Heuenliche, a 13th-century tract on virginity, for publication by the EETS. See also Aelfric Society, London publisher of Anglo-Saxon texts, 1842–1856 References External links EETS texts at Project Gutenberg List of Early English Text Society publications with brief descriptions Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Medieval literature 1864 establishments in England Learned societies of the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1864 Text publication societies