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Update to Lear’s Works in Public Collections
Stephen Duckworth and Rowena Fowler’s very useful list of works by Edward Lear in public collections all over the world is now available in an updated version. I have also added a link to the...
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New Bibliography
Edward Lear, Amalfi (1839) Dubois, Martin. “Edward Lear’s India and the Colonial Production of Nonsense.” Victorian Studies 61.1 (2018): 35-59. Williams, James. “The Whole Situation.” Cambridge...
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Midsummer Readings
Edward Lear, Near Massa, 22 August 1838. Jagger, Jasmine. “Lear’s Tears.” Victorian Poetry 57.1 (2019). 101-129. And: Jagger, Jasmine. “The Endlessness of Alice.” The Cambridge Quarterly 45.1 (2016)....
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Edward Lear: A Life in Pictures
Christmas came early this year for me; last night I received an e-mail informing me that European Comic Art, 12.2, with my article “Edward Lear: A Life in Pictures” (pp. 17-44) is now published and...
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An Unpublished Poem by Edward Lear
Edward Lear, Mt. Generoso, July 1882. Amy Wilcockson and Edmund Downey have found a previously unknown poem by Edward Lear, dated 22 September 1882 and enclosed in a lettter to Mary Theresa Mundella...
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Why, How, and When to Write on Edward Lear
Matt Bevis, who has edited Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry with James Williams (now available in paperback), published several essays and posted lectures on Edward Lear (search for his name on the...
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Late Summer Reading
Uglow, Jenny. “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat: Edward Lear in the Villa Emily, San Remo.” Lives of Houses. Eds. Kennedy, Kate and Hermione Lee. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020....
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Victorian Poetry Issue on Edward Lear
The summer 2020 issue of Victorian Poetry (Volume 58, Number 2), edited by Jasmine Jaegger and Benjamin Westwood, is entirely devoted to Edward Lear. Here is the table of contents: Introduction: New...
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New Publications on Edward Lear (and more)
It’s been a long time since I updated the bibliographies, so here are quite a lot of items. Essays on Edward Lear: Walchester, Kathryn. “Non vedete. È una rivoluzione: Edward Lear Landscape Painter and...
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Edward Lear, the Caetani and Ninfa
My essay is now out and available either on Amazon and the publisher’s website. Marco Graziosi, “Prima di Gregorovius: Edward Lear, i Caetani e Ninfa.” In Ninfa: Percezioni nella scienza, letteratura...
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Edward Lear’s Studio Practice
Stephen Duckworth is at it again: he has created a new, very nice site, about Edward Lear and His Studio Practice, which covers all aspects of Lear’s painting activity: sketches, studio work. A very...
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