This English author/illustrator was born in 1812, the last of 21 children. Life was tough for the family, but he amused his siblings and himself with nonsense rhymes and limericks. He wrote The Owl and the Pussycat, The Scroobious Pip and The Nonsense Alphabet and never sought to moralise to Victorian children, only to entertain them. Although he never wrote a novel, he was mentioned as a novelist in a song by the Beatles, who admired his wordplay. This is Edward Lear.
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