Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber

Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber

Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814 - 1890) was an American humorist.

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

1. Gilder, Jeannette Leonard Gilde (1910). Masterpieces of the world's best literature, Volume 8. Classic pub. co. p. 36.

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Partington, Mrs.". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.

• Works by or about Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber at Internet Archive
• Works by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Excerpt from Ike and his Friends.
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature