Charles E. Carryl
Charles Edward Carryl (December 30, 1841 – July 3, 1920[1]) was an American children's literature author.
Biography
Born in New York, Carryl became a second-generation successful businessman; and a stockbroker, who for 34 years starting in 1874 held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1869 he married Mary Wetmore. Their elder child was the poet and humorist Guy Wetmore Carryl. In 1882 Charles E. Carryl published his first work: Stock Exchange Primer.[1]
In 1884 he published the children's fantasy
Adaptations
His poem "The Walloping Window Blind" can be sung to the same tune as
His poems "The Sleepy Giant" and "The Walloping Window Blind" are featured on Natalie Merchant's 2010 concept album Leave Your Sleep.
References
- ^ a b c "Carryl Biography". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2007. Contains information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
- ^ Article by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre about Carryl and Davy and the Goblin in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July 2006) http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2006/cur0607.htm
- ^ North, Arielle (May 3, 1992). "A Spring Torrent of Children's Books". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- ^ SSSB Committee (editors) (1897). The Scottish Students' Song Book (sixth ed.). London & Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson. p. 128.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ "Lyr Req: A Capital Ship". Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
- ^ "Bounding Main - CD Lost at Sea". Retrieved August 24, 2012.
External links
- Works by Charles E. Carryl at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles E. Carryl at Internet Archive
- Works by Charles E. Carryl at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Davy and the Goblin at Children's Books Online
- Robinson Crusoe's Story (audio reading)
- Ted Talk with Natalie Merchant singing "The Sleepy Giant"
- Charles E. Carryl at Library of Congress, with 15 library catalog records
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