Douglas William Jerrold
Douglas William Jerrold (born January 3, 1803 in London , † June 8, 1857 ibid), pseudonym Barnabas Whitefeather , was an English playwright and storyteller .
Life
In the German-speaking countries, despite his extensive oeuvre , the author is almost exclusively known for Madame Kaudel's curtain sermons (1846), which Friedrich Gerstäcker wrote with titles such as When I got stuck in a tavern , Madame Kaudel alludes to how comfortably I would live if " her good mother "lived with us or when Madame Kaudel believed that it was proper to celebrate her - pardon - our wedding anniversary in German.
The most successful works in his home country also include, although rarely performed, the dramatic works Black-eyed Susan (1829), The Rent Day (1832) and his historical play about Thomas à Becket - including the short skits from the Men of Character collection ( 1838) received a lot of attention, like the two books with Sketchen Cakes and Ale (1842) and the stories The Story of a Feather (1844), The Chronicles of Clovernook (1846), A Man made of Money (1849) and St Giles and St James (1851).
In addition to Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures , Jerrold created another classic of the satirical short form with Punch's Letters to his Son (1843).
Works
- Black-Eyed Susan (1829) play / melodrama
- The Rent Day (1832) play / melodrama
- Men of Character (1838)
- Cakes and Ale (2 vols., 1842), a collection of short writings and whimsical stories
- The Story of a Feather (1844), novel
- The Chronicles of Clovernook (1846), novel
- A Man made of Money (1849), novel
- St Giles and St James (1851), novel
- Punch's Complete Letter-writer (1845)
- Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures (1846)
- Cakes and Ale . The writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected ed.Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London 1852
- Douglas Jerrold's shilling magazine . Volume V, January - June. Publisher: The Punch office London, 1847
- Publications by and about Jerrold William Douglas on the Internet Archive
Discography
- Madame Kaudels curtain sermons by Douglas Jerrold: Translation by Friedrich Gerstäcker ; Speaker: Heidi Kabel , Walter Gross (1970)
Web links
- Douglas William Jerrold , entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 (English)
- Literature by and about Douglas William Jerrold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Douglas William Jerrold in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Walter Jerrold: Douglas Jerrold and 'Punch' . "Bibliography of Douglas Jerrold's contributions to Punch": p. 413-444 Publisher Macmillan and co., Limited, London, 1910
- Douglas Jerrold, dramatist and wit. In two volumes. Publisher: Hodder and Stroughton, London 1910?
- The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold . By his son Blanchard Jerrold. Publisher Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1859
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| SURNAME | Jerrold, Douglas William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Whitefeather, Barnabas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English playwright and storyteller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1857 |
| Place of death | London |