http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2008/08/20/non-limericks-1-wm-thackeray/ Edward Lear and Nonsense News Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:14:04 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2008/08/20/non-limericks-1-wm-thackeray/comment-page-1/#comment-12535 A Blog of Bosh - » Non-Limericks 2: Alfred Crowquill Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:43:21 +0000 http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/?p=465#comment-12535 [...] Like Thackeray, Alfred Crowquill (pseudonym for Alfred Henry Forrester) has his place in the prehistory of comics thanks to an 1849 booklet entitled A Goodnatured Hint about California, a satire of the California gold rush. Besides publishing a successful series of illustrated fairy tales, Crowquill collaborated with several magazines of the time, Punch among them. [...] [...] Like Thackeray, Alfred Crowquill (pseudonym for Alfred Henry Forrester) has his place in the prehistory of comics thanks to an 1849 booklet entitled A Goodnatured Hint about California, a satire of the California gold rush. Besides publishing a successful series of illustrated fairy tales, Crowquill collaborated with several magazines of the time, Punch among them. [...]

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