Charles Keene was one of a small group of mid-Victorian draughtsmen, among them John Tenniel and George du Maurier, who was responsible for greatly improving the quality of British illustration during the 1860s and 1870s. Untrained, but with pre-Raphaelite devotion to studying from nature, Keene became the strongest black and white artist of his time contributing not only to Punch, but to many of the other periodicals of the gay such as Once a Week. Almost alone among these men, Keene obtained an international reputation and was widely admired in America and Europe. The American artist James McNeil Whistler described Keene as 'the greatest artist since Hogarth'. Edgar Degas owned his books and Camille Pissaro recommended him to his son Lucien.

The Work of Charles Samuel Keene

HOUFE, Simon

Keene, Charles

Biographies & Memoirs

Scolar Pr

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Literature & Fiction

DOYLE, Richard

Leech., John

Essays & Correspondence

BiblioLife

JERROLD, DOUGLAS

Douglas William Jerrold (3 January 1803 - 8 June 1857) was an English dramatist and writer. Jerrold wrote for the magazine Punch. Under the pseudonym 'Q', Jerrold's liberal and radical perspective filled the magazine. His satire attacked institutions of the day. Jerrold published his comic series Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, in the 1840s, which was later published in book form. Some of the lectures in this collection are as follows. Mr. Caudle has Lent Five Pounds to a Friend, Mr. Caudle has Been at a Tavern with a Friend, and is "Enough to Poison a Woman" with Tobacco-Smoke, Mr. Caudle Joins a club--"The Skylarks.," Mr. Caudle has been Called from His Bed to Bail Mr. Prettyman from the Watch-House, Mr. Caudle has Remained Downstairs till Past One, with a Friend, and Mr. caudle has Lent an Acquaintance the family Umbrella.

Our People (1881)

Community & Culture

Kessinger Publishing

Sea Kings and Naval Heroes: A Book for Boys

Edgar, John George

Johnson, Edward Killingworth

Nabu Press

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