Brinsley Le Fanu Biography

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Brinsley le Fanu
Brinsley Le Fanu (1854-1929) was born George Brinsley Le Fanu, the youngest son of Sheridan Le Fanu, on 1st August 1854 in Dublin. 

We don't know anything about his formal education, but he worked a lot, illustrating such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of Shalott and the Voyage of Maeldune by Sir Alfred Tennyson, Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Story of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

Probably his most notable work was illustrations for the Books for the Bairns series edited by William Thomas Stead. He illustrated several of his father's works as well - The Cock and Anchor, The Evil Guest, and The Watcher and Other Weird Stories (Brinsley wrote a preface too). 

Apart from illustration, he excelled in painting too, exhibiting at the Dudley Gallery, the Manchester City Art Gallery, the New Water Colour Society, the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Authors. He died in London on 25th June 1929.

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