Tag Archives: Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells’s Lovely Lilly

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells often contributed to the children’s sections of newspapers in the first decade of the XX century. One of the weirdest of these contributions was no doubt Adventures of Lovely Lilly, which ran in the Sunday New York Herald from December 1906 … Continue reading →

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Carolyn Wells, The Troubled Whale

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells, “The Troubled Whale.” Illustrated by J.M. Condé. The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 5, August 1905, p. 545.

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Carolyn Wells, The Pround Eel

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells, “The Proud Eel.” Illustrated by J.M. Condé. The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 4, July 1905, p. 512.

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Carolyn Wells, The Scientific Goose

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells, “The Scientific Goose.” Illustrated by J.M. Condé. The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 3, June 1905, p. 3377.

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The Provident Centipede

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Carolyn Wells, “The Provident Centipede.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. 22, no. 6, September 1905, p. 751.

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Carolyn Wells on the Limerick

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

A new article is available on the nonsenselit.org bookshelf: Carolyn Wells, “Limericks.” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, vol. 55, no. 5, March 1903, pp. 532-5. It mostly consists of limericks by authors well-know at the turn of the twentieth century. Worth … Continue reading →

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