Owen Seaman
Sir Owen Seaman, 1st Baronet (18 September 1861 – 2 February 1936) was a British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of
Biography
Born in
Seaman's first successful submission to the satirical and humorous magazine Punch was "Rhyme of the Kipperling", an 1894 parody of Rudyard Kipling. The same year he published a full volume of parodies entitled Horace at Cambridge.[4] After several years of submitting work which showed "a remarkable gift for the composition of light verse,"[3] he was invited to join the staff in 1897, becoming assistant editor in 1902 and finally editor in 1906. It was during his tenure there that A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, worked as his assistant; it is thought that Seaman's dour disposition may have been the inspiration behind the gloomy character of Eeyore.[4]
In 1914 he was
References
- ^ "Seaman, Owen (SMN880O)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ A History of Magdalen College School Oxford, Second Edition, Blackwells, 1958, p. 168
- ^ a b "Seaman, Sir Owen". River Campus Libraries: A – Z List of the Manuscript Collections. University of Rochester. 18 July 2005. Retrieved 29 June 2006.
- ^ a b Myers, Alan (2004). "Owen Seaman". Myers Literary Guide to North-East England. Northumbria University Centre for Northern Studies. Archived from the original on 17 March 2004. Retrieved 29 June 2006.
- ^ Munro, John Murchison, ed. (1968). English Poetry in Transition: 1880–1920. Pegasus. ASIN B0006D7Z2W.
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External links
- Works by Owen Seaman at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Owen Seaman at Internet Archive
- Works by Owen Seaman at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)