Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber - Wikipedia Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize its key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. (August 2018) Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (July 12, 1814 – November 25, 1890)[1] was an American printer, editor, and humorist. He often wrote under the guise of his fictional character Mrs. Partington. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 References 4 External links Biography[edit] Shillaber was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and began work in a printing office in 1830. He moved to Boston in the 1830s, and then became an editor with the Boston Daily Post and Saturday Evening Gazette. For the Post, Shillaber introduced his character Mrs. Ruth Partington, the American version of Mrs. Malaprop, which he would reuse frequently throughout his career. In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of The Carpet-Bag with his business partner Charles G. Halpine. The Boston-based humor magazine was one of the country's first comic publications. Though it would only survive for two years, it soon earned a national reputation and enticed contributions from humorist like George Derby and others, as well as serious writers who used pseudonyms like Enoch Fitzwhistle, Peter Snooks, and John P. Squibob. The May 1, 1852, issue ran a short article titled "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" by a 16-year old Samuel L. Clemens, later known by the name Mark Twain.[2] Shillaber's character of Ike Partington, Mrs. Partington's nephew, may have influenced Twain's title character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain more explicitly refers to Mrs. Partington in his book Roughing It.[3] He died in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Works[edit] Illustration of Mrs. Partington, c. 1858 Rhymes With Reason and Without (1854) Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington (1854) Knitting-Work: A Web of Many Textures, Wrought by Ruth Partington (1859) Partingtonian Patchwork (1873) Ike and his Friends (1879) Wide-swath, Embracing Lines in Pleasant Places: And Other Rhymes Wise and Otherwise (1882) References[edit] ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/360490 ^ Martin, Justin. Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2014: 129. ISBN 978-0-306-82226-1 ^ Rasmussen, R. Kent. Critical Companion to Mark Twain: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York, NY: Infobase Publishing, 2007: 879. ISBN 978-0-8160-5398-8  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Partington, Mrs.". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber. Wikisource has original works written by or about: Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber Works by or about Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber at Internet Archive Works by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) "Shillaber's Ike and Tom Sawyer" "Mrs. Partington" from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Authority control GND: 1056109106 ISNI: 0000 0000 8249 6652 LCCN: n89629008 SNAC: w6028sx5 VIAF: 63152476 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n89629008 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Penhallow_Shillaber&oldid=973290157" Categories: 1814 births 1890 deaths American humorists Writers from Portsmouth, New Hampshire Writers from Boston American male writers Hidden categories: Wikipedia introduction cleanup from August 2018 All pages needing cleanup Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2018 All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Nuttall Encyclopedia Commons category link from Wikidata Articles with Internet Archive links Articles with LibriVox links Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Languages Latina Edit links This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 12:05 (UTC). 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