Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear and G.F. Bowen

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

Lear first met George Fergusson Bowen in Rome in 1847, accepted his invitation to visit Corfu, and even considered the possibility of taking a post at the University of Corfu. In a letter to Ann during his first visit to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear by Ian Malcolm

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

You can now read Ian Malcolm’s 1908 overview of Lear’s career (mostly from the point of view of the Baring family) in the Nonsense section of the site bookshelf: Ian Malcolm, “Edward Lear.” The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 24, January 1908, … Continue reading →

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The Jumblies Comic

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Hunt Emerson, whose comic book adaptation of Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” was mentioned in a previous post, has also posted a version of “The Jumblies,” executed as a private commission. Click on the images below to get … Continue reading →

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An Exile in Paradise

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Derek Smith of Lear Productions informs me that their documentary on Lear’s travels in Albania and Greece, which won the Arts Silver World Medal at the 2009 New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotion Awards, will be shown again … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and George Grove

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

One of the most famous of Edward Lear’s self caricatures is certainly the one in which he portrays himself while looking straight into the eyes of a strange “bug,” which is itself gazing at him. I had never cared to … Continue reading →

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Verbeek's Botanies

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Sunday Press has announced the availability of their new collection reprinting in full colour the whole run of  Gustave Verbeek’s The Upside-Downs of Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, the late Terrors of the Tiny Tads, as well the first … Continue reading →

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The Grave of Edward Lear

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Mr. Eden Phillpotts, […] who lives in Devonshire and spends all his time in the beautiful English country, has written a book called “My Garden,” which will be published by the English Country Life. It is the thoughts of a … Continue reading →

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Cassowary vs Missionary

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

The tragic consequences of being a missionary in Timbuctoo were the subject of one of the infrequent comic strips in Punch (22 February 1868, vol. 54, pp. 80-1). The little poem around which the story turns is known in several … Continue reading →

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The Ladies and Scott

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Moonshine, a magazine established in 1879, published the following parody of Edward Lear’s “Akond of Swat” on 1 January 1898 (p. 2); it was prompted by the leading dramatic critic of its age Clement Scott’s assertion that “it was practically … Continue reading →

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Before Little Nemo

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

“Wicked Willie’s Dream” by Walter M. Dunk appeared in Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 821, 23 July 1895, 760 (click for full story): It clearly anticipates Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, in particular for Willie’s position after his … Continue reading →

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