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Edward Lear
Standard Name: Lear, Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Leonora Carrington | One of LC
's first teachers was her nanny, Mary Kavanagh
, who tutored Leonora and told her ghost stories. When LC
was a child she was also exposed to stories by Beatrix Potter
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Pigling Bland (written, significantly, in the days of BP
's own courtship) is a love-story in whose happy ending Pigling and his beloved Pig-wig go dancing off hand-in-hand Over the hills and... |
| Occupation | Ethel M. Arnold | In addition to women's political progress, EA's second tour featured talks about a range of subjects: Lewis Carroll
, Kenneth Grahame
, and Edward Lear
; the historians J. R. Green
, Edward Augustus Freeman |
| Textual Features | Penelope Fitzgerald | The style of these Thirteen Poems suggests a lineage of Edward Lear
, Stevie Smith
, and Ogden Nash
. The briefest, A Lover's Humble Request, runs (in full): Look at me / O... |
Timeline
12 May 1812: Edward Lear, writer and artist, was born...
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12 May 1812
Edward Lear
, writer and artist, was born at Holloway, London.
10 February 1845: Edward Lear's first publication, A Book of...
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10 February 1845
Edward Lear
's first publication, A Book of Nonsense, appeared, containing short, deliberately inconsequential poems (not yet known as limericks) illustrated with his own line drawings.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 February 2009
1871: Edward Lear published Nonsense Songs, Stories,...
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1871
Edward Lear
published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and The Jumblies.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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29 January 1888: Edward Lear, writer and artist, died at San...
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29 January 1888
Edward Lear
, writer and artist, died at San Remo, Italy.
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