E v lucas

E V LUCAS

1. DIGITAL PROFILE OF
E V LUCAS
SUBMITTED BY,
JULIYA JOSEPH.

2. E V LUCAS
•Edward VerrallLucas,(1868 –1938)
•English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist,
short story writer and editor.
•He is recognized as the pre-eminent editor of Charlie’s Lamb’s works and
the biographer of Lamb.

3. EARLY LIFE
•Lucas was born inEltham, Kent, the second son of the four sons and
three daughters of Alfred Lucas and his wife, JanenéeDrewett. The
Lucaseswere a Quaker family.
•At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to aBrighton bookseller.
•In 1890,he published, anonymously, his first volume of
poems,Sparks from a Flint.
•In 1897 he married (Florence) Elizabeth Gertrude, daughter of
Colonel James Theodore Griffin, of the United States army; there was
one child, Audrey, of the marriage.
•Elizabeth Lucas was a writer, and husband and wife collaborated on
several children's books.

4. MAJOR WORKS
•The Face on the Wall.
•Cricket All His Life
•Songs of the Bat
•School for sympathy
•The essays of Lucas are found in Character and comedy (1907). Old
Lamps for New (1911) Loiterer’s Harvest Cloud and Silver (1916).

5. WRITING STYLE
•His works enjoyed immense popularity.
•They are marked by fancy, literary articles commonsense, lightness of
touch, wit, ease, irony and humor.
•His humor, though generally kind and humane, is sometimes almost
harsh and savage.
•E.V. Lucas was a versatile writer.
•He compiled numerous anthologies wrote a dozen novels, published
many travelogues contributed to Punch and Wasitsassistant editor in
its most successful days. He is also reputed as a reputed writer of
light, conversational essays of which there are some thirty volumes.

6. WRITING STYLE
•Lucas was known as a stylist with great flair, but he was not really the
one for rigorous labour.
•He loved cricket. His collection of essays on the game, Cricket All His
Life, was compiled and published after his death and they are
delightful.
•He was a prolific writer, dabbling in light essays, short stories, poetry,
travel literature, several biographies and even plays. He told his
daughter Audrey that he was a ‘bedroom author’, which meant any of
his works could be put by the bedside of a very young girl or a very
old lady, without any anxiety.

7. APPRECIATIONS
•Lucas had a long association with the publishing houseMethuen and
Co, which published his edition of Lamb.
•Lucas received honorary degrees from the Universities ofSt
AndrewsandOxford
•He was appointedCompanion of Honourin 1932.
•He was appointed a member of theRoyal Commission on the
Historical Monuments of Englandin 1928, and from 1933 until his
death he was a member of theCrown Lands Advisory Committee.

8. LATER YEARS
•In his later years Lucas cut his domestic ties and lived alone, spending
his evenings in restaurants and clubs.
•When he was stricken with his final illness he steadfastly refused to
allow his friends into his sickroom.
•Lucas died in a nursing home inMarylebone, London, at the age of
70.