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Edward Lear (1812–1888)
Lear, Edward. An English writer and draughtsman of nonsense verses and pictures; born at London, May 12, 1812; died at San Remo, 1888. He wrote a ‘Book of Nonsense’ (1846); and thereafter ‘Nonsense Songs and Stories’; ‘Nonsense Songs, Pictures, etc.’; ‘Laughable Lyrics’; ‘Nonsense Botany’; ‘Nonsense Alphabets.’ He wrote also: ‘Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania’ (1851); ‘Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria’ (1852); ‘Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica’ (1870).