Category Archives: Peter Newell

Peter Newell: Cupid’s Top

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Magazine, vol. 94, issue 562, March 1897, p. 653.

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Peter Newell: A Rebuff

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Magazine, vol. 94, issue 561, February 1897, p. 493.

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Santa Claus, Jr.

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

I thought I would keep this for Christmas, but since Edward Lear’s Diaries are taking so much of my time and I’m working on a long post I’m sure you will love, here comes: “Santa Claus, Jr.” by Wallace Irwin, … Continue reading →

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The Educated Love Bird

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

(Not translated from the Italian) by Peter Newell I teach-a da bird an’ a blow-a da ring, An’ ‘e fly into eet an’ ‘e roost an’ ‘e sing! An’ whn-a da ring ‘eet is not-a in sight Da bird ‘e … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, Needledee and Needledum

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, Needledee and Needledum: A Funnygraph Record by Peter Newell, from The Ladies’ World, April-May 1914.

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The Frog and the Heron: A Different Sort of Romance

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

The following poem by Peter Newell,  in Harper’s Young People, vol. XIV, 1893, p. 824,  shows that the theme of interspecies sexual-sentimental relationships would be used at least until the end of the century. Given his choice of a title, … Continue reading →

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The Frog and the Duck: A Romance

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

George du Maurier “took, in 1869-1870, a brief Darwinian respite from his usual labors of satirizing the Victorian drawing room” and, among other things, produced an “unusually extensive and charmingly anthropomorphic picture-story” (Kunzle 293), which appeared in three fortnightly instalments … Continue reading →

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Another Owl, Another Pussy-cat

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

“They call that thing a cat owl. Humph! It may have resembled one of my family before it was stuffed. But now — well — “I’ll leave it to anybody; does that bundle of hay and feathers look anything like … Continue reading →

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A Startling Illusion

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Young People, vol. XIV, 1893, p. 40.

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A Game of Croquet without Rules

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Marco Graziosi

Published in Harper’s Young People June 30, 1885

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