Earle wrote more than a dozen books and was the author of Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1865),[1] and Anglo-Saxon Literature (1884).
[2] Charles Plummer edited Earle's Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel, producing a Revised Text with notes, appendices, and glossary in 1892.
[4] Earle was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he obtained first-class honors in classics.
[4] Earle held the position of Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford as well as the rectory of Swanswick until his death in 1903.
His address in the 1903 Who's Who (UK) is listed as Swanswick Rectory, Bath, 84 Banbury Road, Oxford.