The Serious Nonsense Festival will return to Prescot town centre on Saturday, August 23, running from 11am to 6pm with a full day of free family entertainment. The event celebrates Knowsley’s historic ...

Edward Burra was a trailblazer, said Nancy Durrant in The Times. Whether painting the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s, or scenes from the Spanish Civil War, Burra (1905- 1976) was "as acute an ...

What3words is the result. Mr Sheldrick chose to divide the world into those squares, to give the precision that would help find not merely a venue but a particular entrance. A mathematician friend ...

Edward Gorey’s surreal back-of-the-envelope illustrations tell a moving story The writer and artist’s delightful illustrated correspondence chronicle a long friendship Tobias Carroll 28 April 2025 ...

Edward gave his name not just to a period but an atmosphere. “Edwardian” conjures up something very different from “Victorian”: the world of The Wind in the Willows, EM Forster, picture ...

The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who Invented Nonsense Wolverton Hill, illus. by Laura Carlin. Enchanted Lion, $22.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-59270-413-2 ...

Last week, 60 years after Edward Lear and his faithful old cat-traveling companion Foss died, Manhattan galleryites got a chance to judge Edward Lear the artist through his spontaneous sketches.

Daniell totally failed, in his eyes, to capture the colour and bustle of Benares, a place that Lear finds “startlingly radiant”. Edward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Benares, 1873.

Such is the captivating cover of The Viceroy’s Artist (Hachette India), a novel by academician and author Anindyo Roy. This fictionalised, inner-world narrative is one that explores the thoughts and ...

S om etimes it seems to me that the lives of the Victorians show more color, more ambition, more brilliance, more eccentricity, more sheer energy, more strangeness than the cast of characters from any ...

BOOK EXCERPT A new novel imagines artist-poet Edward Lear’s little-known Indian sojourns An excerpt from ‘The Viceroy’s Artist,’ by Anindyo Roy.

To explain why, I need to say something more about Edward Lear (1812-1888), who is to be featured here as the latest in the Famous Travellers to Türkiye series. Lear is certainly still famous today, ...