Edward Lear by Ian Malcolm

Posted by Marco on January 30th, 2010

You can now read Ian Malcolm’s 1908 overview of Lear’s career (mostly from the point of view of the Baring family) in the Nonsense section of the site bookshelf:

Ian Malcolm, “Edward Lear.” The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 24, January 1908, pp. 25-36, as reprinted in The Living Age, vol. 256, no. 3319, 15 February 1908, pp. 467-75.

I have also added, in the Comics section, a long article on Ally Sloper:

Elizabeth Robins Pennell. “The Modern Comic Newspaper. The Evolution of a Popular Type.” The Contemporary Review, vol. 50, October 1886, pp. 509-23.

The Jumblies Comic

Posted by Marco on December 27th, 2009

Hunt Emerson, whose comic book adaptation of Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” was mentioned in a previous post, has also posted a version of “The Jumblies,” executed as a private commission. Click on the images below to get larger ones.

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An Exile in Paradise

Posted by Marco on December 2nd, 2009

Derek Smith of Lear Productions informs me that their documentary on Lear’s travels in Albania and Greece, which won the Arts Silver World Medal at the 2009 New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotion Awards, will be shown again on Sky Arts in December on both high definition and standard definition channels (the links below are not working for me at the moment, but were last night):

Previous Articles

Edward Lear and George Grove

Posted by Marco on October 27th, 2009

Polly Sleepyhead

Posted by Marco on October 1st, 2009

Verbeek’s Botanies

Posted by Marco on September 9th, 2009

The Grave of Edward Lear

Posted by Marco on August 27th, 2009

Cassowary vs Missionary

Posted by Marco on August 22nd, 2009

The Ladies and Scott

Posted by Marco on August 7th, 2009

Peter Newell, Independence Day in the Country

Posted by Marco on July 3rd, 2009

In the Papers