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Title: THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CATS
LEAR IN LOVE: THE UNTOLD STORY
By: Michael Montgomery
Format: Hardback

List price: £20.00


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ISBN 10: 1780034601
ISBN 13: 9781780034607
Publisher: INDEPENPRESS PUBLISHING LTD
Pub. date: 21 September, 2012
Pages: 400
Synopsis: Edward Lear (1812-1888) is known the world over as the author of the Book of Nonsense, and The Owl and the Pussy Cat was voted top in the recent BBC Nation's Favourite Children's Poem poll. Less well known, but increasingly more recognised, is his reputation as a leading artist of the day, popular travel writer and even composer - he set many of his friend Tennyson's poems to music. Despite his popularity, he never married, prompting theories that he was homosexual. However, Michael Montgomery finds that his voluminous diaries and letters paint quite the opposite picture. 'I wish to goodness I could get a wife!', he wrote from Italy at the age of 25 while the diaries record nearly 40 pretty females that caught his fancy. A weak chest, poor eyesight, a permanent want of money and a fear, given his relatively humble origins, that he would not be considered 'good enough' in the elevated circles that he came to move in - all conspired against him. Greater than all these obstacles, however, was his epilepsy, which in those days was considered almost akin to madness.Even so, Lear found himself on the point of proposing three times before he was thwarted by events beyond his control, and it was only when in his 70s that fear of inflicting it on another finally got the better of him. The OWL and the PUSSY CATS tells the tragic story of a man who gave such pleasure to countless millions of children, yet was deprived the joy of having any of his own.
Illustrations: black and white illustrations throughout and plate section
Publication: UK
Imprint: Pen Press
Returns: Returnable
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