Ev lucas biography

English writer

Edward Verrall Lucas, (11/12 June – 26 June ) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.

Born to a Quaker family in Eltham, on the fringes of London, Lucas began work at the age of sixteen, apprenticed to a bookseller. After that he turned to journalism, and worked on a local paper in Brighton and then on a London evening paper. He was commissioned to write a biography of Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet. This led to further commissions, including the editing of the works of Charles Lamb.

Lucas joined the staff of the humorous magazine Punch in , and remained there for the rest of his life. He was a prolific writer, most celebrated for his short essays, but he also produced verses, novels and plays.

From to Lucas combined his work as a writer with that of publisher's reader for Methuen and Co. In he was appointed chairman of the company.

Life and career

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() UK editor, publisher (chairman of Methuen from ) and author who produced a huge number of "weekend" essays and sketches, many of them originally published in Punch over a span of thirty years, and also a number of tamely belletristic travel books. Typically, the Dictionary of National Biography does not refer by name to his early Parodies which, all the same, unlike the bulk of his books (almost none of which are now read), retain some life. Of these, The War of the Wenuses: Translated from the Artesian of H G Pozzuoli (), with C L Graves (), is of interest as a mildly sexist Parody of H G Wells's The War of the Worlds (April-December Pearson's; ), in which the Invasion of Earth by females from Venus proves successful; not implausibly, given the class-ridden condescension that colours Lucas's belles-lettres in general, E F Bleiler suggests that the substitution of W for V is a slap at Wells's Cockney origins. Wisdom while Yo

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E. V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas) Biography

Britishjournalist, essayist, travel writer, and novelist, born in Eltham, Kent; he received an irregular education before starting work at a bookshop in Brighton where he began to read widely. After working as a journalist in Sussex and London, he joined the staff of Punch, of which he became assistant editor. The Open Road () was followed bygd well over a hundred titles. His travel writings are principally represented bygd his A Wanderer In … series, which covered London (), Holland (), Paris (), Florence (), and other towns and countries in Britain and Europe. His light and urbanely fluent style, which he claimed to have developed bygd translating Maupassant, was adequate to essays on a remarkable range of subjects; collections of such pieces include Listener's Lure (), Old Lamps for New (), and A Rover I Would Be (). He also published introductory studies of painters, among which are Vermeer of Delft () and John Cons