Author:Max Beerbohm

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Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

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English parodist and caricaturist. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, (1911) His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.

Max Beerbohm

Works

• The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)
• The Happy Hypocrite (1897)
• More (1899)
• Yet Again (1909)
• Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story (1911) (transcription project)
• A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912)
• Introduction to Men of Letters (1916) by Dixon Scott
• Seven Men (1919 UK, 1920 US) short stories PG
  • Enoch Soames (1916)
  • Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton (also as "Hilary Maltby" in The Century Magazine, Feb 1919)
  • James Pethel (also in The Century Magazine, Jan 1915)
  • A. V. Laider (also in The Century Magazine, June 1916)
  • 'Savonarola' Brown
  • Felix Argallo and Walter Ledgett (added in later editions)
• And Even Now (1920)
• A Peep into the Past (1923)
• A Gracious Act (Caricature): From a water-colour sketch. The Book of the Homeless, 1916.

Magazine stories and articles

• "A Defence of Cosmetics" in The Yellow Book, 1 (1894), pp. 65–82
• "A Letter to the Editor" in The Yellow Book, 2 (1894), pp. 281–284
• "1880" in The Yellow Book, 4 (1895), pp. 275–283
• "'Fry of Wadham'" (essay: C. B. Fry) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893-94
• "Aubrey Beardsley" (essay) Idler magazine, 1898
• "Counsel in Season" (Pall Mall, 1901)
• "The Naming of Streets" (Pall Mall, 1902)
• "Caricatures" (Pall Mall, 1902) caricatures
• "The Laughter of the Public" (Pall Mall, 1902)
• ' "A Morris for May-Day"' essay, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Oct 1907
• "Kolniyatsch" (satire) Harper's Weekly, Feb 14, 1914 (included in And Even Now, 1920)
• "A Relic" (ss) Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1919
• "Hosts and Guests" (essay) Harper's Monthly Magazine, Aug 1919 (included in And Even Now, 1920)
• "William and Mary" (ss) The Century Magazine, Dec 1920

Works about Beerbohm

• "Beerbohm, Max," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Beerbohm, Max," by William George Constable in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)