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Edward Lear and Food

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

You would think that writing over 500 essential pages on Edward Lear should have been enough for Jenny Uglow who, not thinking so, has a long article on food in Lear on the Times Literary Supplement website entitled “Full of Veal-Cutlets and … Continue reading →

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Jenny Uglow’s Edward Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Another biography of Edward Lear! One could be excused for reacting like this at the news of Jenny Uglow’s new book, after all there are at least five other easily available. Even though I had enjoyed all the books by … Continue reading →

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Mary Crawford Fraser on Edward Lear

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

For some reason we were drawn to choose quite a new spot for our villegglatura in the summer of 1870, a retreat in the Maritime Alps, of which till then I had seen very little. I think the train took … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Copy of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord IDYLLS OF THE KING. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS FOR EDWARD MOXON & CO., 1859. 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 ins.; 171 x 109 mm). Eight-page publisher’s catalogue dated July 1859 bound  before front free endpaper; some minor … Continue reading →

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September Readings

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has digitized its Edward Lear collection, which consists mostly of letters: 11 to William Holman Hunt, 2 to Luard and one to his sister Ellen from India, among others. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear to Miss Selwyn

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear: Autograph letter addressed to Miss Selwyn, San Remo, 19 April, 1883, 3 pp., 8vo, with two pen and ink drawings of skipping lambs and a large self-portrait caricature of Lear taking a tumble, writing of his “head being bad. … Continue reading →

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Another Edward Lear Letter to Mrs Hankey

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear:  Autograph letter addressed to Mrs. Hankey, from Rendcomb Park, Cirencester, dated Sept. 1, 1872, 3pp. 8vo., written at speed in his characteristic hand, linking many of the words, concerning commissions for drawings, his movements and an account of a … Continue reading →

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An Edward Lear Letter to Mrs Thomson Hankey

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear: Autograph letter addressed to Mrs. Thomson Hankey, Brambridge Place, Winchester, dated 9 Sept. 1867, on blue paper, 2 pp. 4to, the first page nearly filled (c. 150 x 200mm) with a large drawing of Lear ensconced in a melon-bed … Continue reading →

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And What About Charles?

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] The 18th son Charles had an interesting story, he became medical Missionary and went to the West coast of Africa, was a great favourite of the Chiefs, and when he nearly died of malaria, … Continue reading →

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“Twentieth of Twenty-one”: Edward Lear and his Siblings (3)

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

[Part 1] [Part 2] The Lears were non-conformists and had their children baptized at the Meeting House at Haberdashers’ Hall by Pastor Joseph Brooksbank, and all the children who reached adulthood, except Charles, appear in the “Register of Births and … Continue reading →

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