the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Edward Lear : Book of Nonsense

'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had sampled Wilde's Intentions (1891).'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Max Beerbohm      Print: Book

Edward Lear : Nonsense Songs and Stories

'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "The Old Man from the Kingdom of Tess", were favorites, but he enjoyed reading all of them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Edward Lear : unspecified

'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs de la Mer" which I read at the age of seven. But within the last two years I’ve participated in my son’s (age 5) course of reading, and I share his tastes – in prose, Grimm and Andersen; in verse, Lear.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

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