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Aubrey Beardsley’s Limerick on Illustrating Le Morte Darthur
This manuscript records memories of Aubrey Beardsley’s mother about amateur theatricals put on at home by the adolescent Aubrey and his sister, Mabel, and her son’s reluctance to fulfil his commission to illustrate an edition of Le Morte Darthur (1893–1894). … Continue reading
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Tagged Aubrey Beardsley, Limerick, nonsense rhymes, poems
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