Edward Lear

Nonsense Books (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 107
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783968651842
• Artikelnr.: 59880310

Autorenporträt

Lear was born into a middle-class family at Holloway, North London, the penultimate of 21 children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear, a stockbroker formerly working for the family sugar refining business. He was raised by his eldest sister, also named Ann, 21 years his senior. Jeremiah Lear ended up defaulting to the London Stock Exchange in the economic upheaval following the Napoleonic Wars; owing to the family's now more limited finances, Lear and his sister were required to leave the family home, Bowmans Lodge, and live together when he was aged four. Ann doted on Edward and continued to act as a mother for him until her death, when he was almost 50 years of age.