John Well’s phonetic blog discusses what we can learn on Victorian pronunciation from Edward Lear’s limericks.

The Opinionator NY Times blog suggests that Victorian naturalists might be a model for some of Lear’s most famous characters: The Brittle-Stars Danced. The Stingray Smoked a Pipe.

The Financial Times has an article by Jackie Wullschlager on the new Birmingham exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite drawings: The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours.