L. Perry Curtis

Lewis Perry Curtis Jr. (born 1932) is an American historian specialising in 19th century Irish history. He also covers modern culture and media.

L. Perry Curtis has written a number of books on 19th-century Ireland, including two books on political cartooning. Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature covers how the Irish were caricatured by English and American cartoonists. Images of Erin in the Age of Parnell covers how Irish cartoonists depicted the female personification of Ireland, Erin.

Curtis had a teaching career of four decades and then became emeritus professor of history at Brown University, US. He married Alison (b. 1934), daughter of Francis Leader MacCarthy-Willis-Bund, a Chaplain, Fellow and Dean of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1959. Her great-grandfather was the writer John William Willis-Bund.

Selected books

Curtis has written the following books:^[1][2]

• Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature, 1997.
• Images of Erin in the Age of Parnell.
• Jack the Ripper and the London Press.
• The Depiction of Eviction in Ireland 1845–1910.
• The historian's workshop;: Original essays by sixteen historians.

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