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All about Charles Eyre Pascoe (1842-1912)

I have yet to find a real picture of CEP, but this idealised image of “the Journalist” is one he might have appreciated. It appears first in a French collection dated 1840, but this would not have upset our man, who has a distinct fondness for the antiquarian

This is the Pascoe Portal. It collects in one place all I have been able to discover about an obscure Victorian journalist and publisher of handbooks of various kinds. I came across him by way of his directory of living actors and actresses, The Dramatic Register (1879), which provides much interesting background for the plays published in Lacy’s Acting Edition. And then I fell down a rabbit hole. Here’s some of what I found there…

  1. A bibliography of books, pamphlets, letters, etc. attributed to Pascoe.
  2. A biographical sketch of his life
  3. A TEI conformant transcription of the Dramatic List (2nd ed, 1880)
  4. Selected letters to the press on various topics

  5. Selected contemporary reviews of his publications

  6. Newspaper reports of his death as printed in the Sutton and Cheam Advertiser 15 Nov 1912, page 5, and elsewhere.

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