Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber
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Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814 - 1890) was an American humorist.
He was born in 1814 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
and began work in a printing-office in 1830. He moved to Boston in 1832, and then became an editor with the Boston Daily Post and Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. 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.
He was born in 1814 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States. It is the largest city but only the fourth-largest community in the county, with a population of 21,233 at the 2010 census...
and began work in a printing-office in 1830. He moved to Boston in 1832, and then became an editor with the Boston Daily Post and Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. 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
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...
in 1890.
Works
- Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington (1854)
- Partingtonian Patchwork (1873)
- Ike and his Friends (1879)
External links
- Excerpt from Ike and his Friends.