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British artist Edward Lear (1812–88) is perhaps best known for his limericks, cartoons, and rhymes, such as "The Owl and the Pussycat." But he was also a highly accomplished painter of landscapes and wildlife, an author of travelogs, and a tireless world traveler—and, as an epileptic and homosexual in Victorian England, a perpetual outsider as well. In this title, noted biographer Uglow (Nature's Engra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More