Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear's Nervous Family

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library has scans of a few of their Edward Lear manuscripts online; the small collection includes self-caricatures taken from letters and original cartoons for the Nonsense Botanies, but also the full manuscript of … Continue reading →

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The Edward Lear Diaries Project

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear’s diaries have been used by all major biographers and extracts have been published in books about  particular locations, most notably by Philip Sherrard for Corfu and Rowena Fowler for Malta. Except for the Indian Journal, published by Ray … Continue reading →

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Irish Sources of Edward Lear's Early Picture Stories

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

In a previous post I quoted a passage from Prothero’s biography of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley reporting the event that might have originated Edward Lear’s picture story “St. Kiven and the Gentle Kathleen,” an illustrated version of Tom Moore’s “By that … Continue reading →

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Non-Limericks 2: Alfred Crowquill

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Like Thackeray, Alfred Crowquill (pseudonym for Alfred Henry Forrester) has his place in the prehistory of comics thanks to an 1849 booklet entitled A Goodnatured Hint about California, a satire of the California gold rush. Besides publishing a successful series … Continue reading →

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Non-Limericks 1: W.M. Thackeray

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

In his recent book on the Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007), David Kunzle also discusses British parallels to the Genevan inventor of comics; among them a special section is devoted to William … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in The Beano

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Lew Stringer posts on Hunt Emerson’s comic strip adaptation of Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.” If anyone has scans of the complete three-page story I would be interested in getting them (I can’t find The Beano here in … Continue reading →

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The Pig-Faced Woman and the Limerick

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

In the early months of 1815 London was swept by reports of a pig-faced lady living in Manchester Square: In the earlier part of this century, there was a kind of publication in vogue, somewhat resembling the more ancient broadside, … Continue reading →

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A Photographer's Day Out… with Edward Lear

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Nancy Hill, a photographer and writer as well as old time fan of Edward Lear’s nonsense, has a new site showcasing her photographic work. Of particular interest are two portfolios: Fools and Limericks.

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Edward Lear to the Rev. Ellis Ashton

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a previously unpublished letter by Edward Lear which was offered some time ago on eBay. It includes one of his delightful self-caricatures representing the painter watching the swallows. 15 Stratford Place, Oxford Street, W 4 Sept. 1865. My … Continue reading →

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Poems and Essays in Honour of Edward Lear

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

In July 2000 Charles Lewsen gave a performance at the Redgrave Theatre in Bristol of the solo theatre piece, How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear, first given in 1968 at Hampstead Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival, and subsequently at venues … Continue reading →

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