Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber
Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814 - 1890) was an American humorist.
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Biography
Shillaber was born in 1814 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and began work in a printing office in 1830. He moved to Boston in 183, and then became an editor with the Boston Daily Post and Saturday Evening Gazette.[1] He then became editor of The Carpet-Bag humor magazine in the 1850s, one of his creations was Mrs. Partington, the American version of Mrs. Malaprop. He died in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1890.
Works
- Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington (1854)
- Partingtonian Patchwork(1873)
- Ike and his Friends (1879)
References
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- Works by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
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