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I have added several new entries to the “Studies on Edward Lear” bibliography, among others:

Gordon Ginzburg, Etti. “Voracious Nonsense: The Cannibalistic Pleasures and Gluttonous Delights of Edward Lear’s and Laura Richards’s Nonsense Poetry.” Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature: National, International and Transnational Perspectives. Eds. Gasperini, Anna, Björn Sundmark and Laura Tosi. Malmö: Malmö University Press, 2024. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.24834/isbn.9789178775651_4

Hoffman, A. Robin. “The Perils and Pleasures of Pronunciation and Perspective in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Alphabets.” In Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye: British Approaches to Literacy through the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 88-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198938163.001.0001

Leonardi, Angela. “‘Travelling with the eyes open’. Il senso del non-luogo nel viaggio in Basilicata e Calabria di Edward Lear.” Scritture del Paesaggio e Memoria nei Luoghi. Eds. lo Feudo, Michela, Antonio Rollo and Erminia Surmonte. Napoli: Federico II University Press, 2025. 57-74. http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/view/763/849/3897.

Wales, Katie. “Where Owls Nest in Beards: Making Sense of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense.” Style as Motivated Choice: In Memory of Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Eds. Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2025. 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.44?locatt=mode:legacy

Graziosi, Marco. “The Evolution of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense: The Making of the 1846, 1855, and 1861 Editions.” Book History 28.2 (2025): 282-315. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2025.a976869.

Dilworth, Thomas. Edward Lear as a Victorian Modernist: The Illustrated Limericks. New York and London: Routledge, 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003675020