Charles H. Bennett (illustrator)

Charles Henry Bennett (London, 1828–2 April 1867) was a prolific Victorian illustrator who pioneered techniques in comic illustration. He wrote illustrated stories and illustrated many children's books including his own version of Aesop's Fables "translated into Human Nature". His work also appeared in Punch and other comic magazines and newspapers. He died in poverty at the age of 37. A benefit given at London's Adelphi Theatre for his widow and children shortly after his death was the occasion for the first public performance of Cox and Box.^[1]

Bibliography

• Papernose Woodensconce. 1854
• The Fables of Aesop and Others, Translated into Human Nature. W. Kent & Co., 1857.
• The Faithless Parrot, Routledge, 1858.
• The sad history of Greedy Jem and all his little brothers, 1858.
• The Nine Lives of a Cat, Griffith and Farran, 1860^[2]
• Mr. Wind and Madame Rain, 1864.
• "Hair-Dressing by Electricity". Punch, 1866.
• The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin (caricatures series, included in Character Sketches and Development Drawings, 1872)^[3]
• Aesop's Fables and Others, Designed and Drawn on Wood by Charles H. Bennett, with Additional Fables Designed and Drawn by Randolph Caldecott. London: Bracken Books, 1986.

Further reading

• Quarles, Francis; Rogers, William Harry; Swain, Joseph; Charles Henry Bennett, Edmund Evans (1861). Quarles' emblems. James Nisbet and co.. http://books.google.com/books?id=-UsgAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 18 July 2010. 

References

External links

• Chares H. Bennett at the Comiclopedia
• Images of the Victorian Book
• Historical Children's Literature Collection, University of Washington
• Charles H. Bennett's Works, Internet Archive
• Some of Charles H. Bennett's books online at http://www.childrenslibrary.org: Fables of Æsop and others, translated into human nature; The faithless parrot; Mother Goose's chimes, rhymes and jingles; Proverbs