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Aspects of the Victorian book, at the British Library
Lear only appears in the “Illustration” section with the Javan Squirrel, but the whole exhibition provides interesting background on the production and publishing of books in the 19th century.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA: Treasures from the World’s great libraries
The National Library of Australia is proud to announce a landmark international exhibition, Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries.This will include “Edward Lear’s illustrated version of the nursery rhyme High Diddle Diddle”.

Artistic Alpine views
WATERCOLOURS and oil paintings depicting Alpine scenes captured from the mid-18th century up to the 1950s will be on show from the end of the month. Peaks and Glaciers, showing at John Mitchell & Son in London, will include paintings by Turner and Edward Lear, and range from early romanticised (and frankly imaginary) [...]

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
Nonsense writers come into a special category, and perhaps we shouldn’t expect their posthumous reputations to follow the usual patterns. But still it’s surprising to realise, reading Vivien Noakes’s new edition, that Edward Lear is no longer homosexual.Guardian Unlimited Books | Observer review

G.K. Chesterton, “Child Psychology and Nonsense”, Illustrated London News, October 15, 1921.For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put [...]