Walter Jerrold gathers his grandfather’s essays from books and scattered periodicals, with a biographical introduction recalling the boy who joined the navy before he was eleven. Many pieces play on Shakespeare, imagining him at Charlecote and Bankside or in China, while others turn sharp sympathy on poverty and hardship.
A fine sampler of the Victorian satirist best remembered for Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures. Download the free EPUB.