George Grossmith

Standard Name: Grossmith, George

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence E. M. Delafield
Its frontispiece quotes from The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith : I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
Delafield, E. M. The Way Things Are. Harper, 1928.
prelims
Occupation Florence Marryat
A woman of varied accomplishments,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
FM was said to have managed a school of journalism in addition to being an actress, singer (for some years distinguished upon the operatic stage),
Swan, Annie S. The Woman at Home. Warwick Magazine Company.
5 (1897): 191
Textual Features E. M. Delafield
In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD was probably influenced by George and Weedon Grossmith 's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...
Textual Features Penelope Fitzgerald
PF 's letters are highly observant of the people around her, often satirically, sometimes lovingly. From long before she became an author, she was using her letters to craft both character and narrative. Rosemary Hill...

Timeline

June 1892: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon...

Writing climate item

June 1892

The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith was published as a book in Bristol, expanded from the serial form which had appeared in Punch in 1888-9.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Grossmith

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