#e.v. lucas

[thebeautifulbook]

FORGOTTEN TALES OF LONG AGO edited by E.V. Lucas, 1868-1938. (London: Wells-Gardner-Darton/New York:Stokes, 1906). Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.

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[book0ftheday]

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, translated from Danish to English by E.V. Lucas and H.B. Paull, illustrated by Arthur Szyk, printed 1945.

[thephilosophyofwho]

The art of life is to show your hand.

-E.V. Lucas

[sublimequotesilove]

"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."

E.V. Lucas.

[fatalbellman]

Illustrated initial from E.V. Lucas's Old Fashioned Tales by F.D. Bedford, 1905

[snailandhammer]

MR. SIDNEY LEE. LEE, SIDNEY, Cryptogrammatist, was born in Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn, in 1859. He is reported to have said at the age of three, 'Donnelly's theory was rash, but mine shall be rasher.' Hence it is that when Mr. Lee set to work, he went further than most Baconians; he maintained that Shakespeare's work is not merely Bacon's, but Bacon and Greene's. His Life of Bacon (1898), brought him much fame, and is still being re-issued in a variety of editions, including a version in words of one syllable for the nursery. Mr. Lee is the editor of the most serious imitation and rival of the present work—The Dictionary of National Biography, which has been described as 'Who's Who (the undertaker intervening).' Mr. Lee's favourite recreation is swan-shooting on the Avon. Authorities: Letters from Dead Authors, Memoires d' Outre Toinbe.

Lives of the 'lustrious: A Dictionary of Irrational Biography (1901) By Sidney Stephen and Leslie Lee. This parody of the Dictionary of National Biography was published the same year as the completion of the DNB. The pseudonymous author(s) names interchange those of the DNB editors Sidney Lee and Leslie Stephen. At the time, Lee was under heavy criticism in the literary press from Baconians for his Life of William Shakespeare, and conversely Lee was extremely critical of Baconians in his Life and elsewhere. The actual authors of Lives of the 'Lustrious were E.V. Lucas and C.L. Graves, who collaborated on a number of pieces of literary satire, including War of the Weenuses, a parody of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, and separate parodies of Sherlock Holmes for Punch.

[wordsreveal]

One of the most adventurous things left to us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

- E. V. Lucas

[deanpauljones]

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E.V. Lucas (1868-1938) Author