Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber

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Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814 - 1890) was an American humorist.

He was born in 1814 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and began work in a printing-office in 1830. He moved to Boston in 1832, and then became an editor with the Boston Daily Post and Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. He then became editor of The Carpet-Bag humor magazine in the 1850s, one of his creations was Mrs. Partington, the American version of Mrs. Malaprop. He died in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1890.

[edit] Works

• Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington (1854)
• Partingtonian Patchwork (1873)
• Ike and his Friends (1879)

[edit] References

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

[edit] External links

• Excerpt from Ike and his Friends.