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Meeting Edward Lear in Heaven

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

She wears a retro dress, the waist nipped small now that the tumors don’t bulge, a skirt that swirls, and dangling red earrings. Time’s different there and just this second she’s spotted the tall man excusing himself from Auden and … Continue reading →

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The Harvard Library Bulletin on Edward Lear is Now Online

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

You can reach it from Matthew Bevis’s Aspects of Edward Lear (Part I), we’re looking forward to Part II then, or directly from here.

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Edward Lear in the TLS

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

The Times Literary Supplement for 3 February has not one, not two, but three articles on Edward Lear: Adam Kendon’s “Edward Lear Painting Parrots” is a review of Robert McCracken Peck’s recent The Natural History of Edward Lear; Ben Westwood’s “Lear and … Continue reading →

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More Summer Reading

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

It seems I missed several more articles on Edward Lear: Marroni, Francesco. “Byron, Edward Lear and the Riddle of Albania.” Skills and Tools to the Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism Management. Eds. Santoro, Sara, Eva Subias and Gloria Bolzoni. Teramo: Edizioni D’Errico, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in the Third Millenium

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

I have just received a copy of the special issue of RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani devoted to “Edward Lear in the Third Millenium: Explorations into his Art and Writing” edited by Raffaella Antinucci and Anna Enrichetta Soccio; here is … Continue reading →

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Lear Drawings at King’s School, Canterbury

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

[In 2012, the King’s School in Canterbury held a bicentenary exhibition of its holdings of Edward Lear watercolours, part of an album of drawings donated by Hugh Walpole in 1938. Most of these works had already been presented by Charles … Continue reading →

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An Edward Lear Society, at Last

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

After a long incubation, I first heard about plans for it about two years ago, I am pleased to announce that the Edward Lear Society has finally seen the light of day with a very nice website, where you will … Continue reading →

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Gerace Celebrates Edward Lear

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

I found this article only a few days ago: it reports that Gerace, a small town in Calabria, put up a plaque last June to celebrate Edward Lear’s two visits to the town. Here is a photograph: The plaque reads: … Continue reading →

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More Edward Lear Manuscripts from Houghton

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Houghton Library is proceeding with the digitization of their Edward Lear manuscript holdings, and a few days ago a new resource was made available: Edward Lear Landscape Drawings, 1838-1884. The document contains over 3,500 links to good-resolution scans of Lear’s … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Greek Journals

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

The journals Edward Lear kept before 1858 are lost. Though we know that in 1885 he still had “60 volumes of Diaries” (letter to Fortescue, 30 April 1885, Selected Letters, p. 269), these were destroyed or distributed among Lear’s friends by … Continue reading →

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