Book description
Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very
desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he
commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City.
Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor
the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to
recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son
Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee...
George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by
Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English
middle-class at the end of nineteenth century.
George and Weedon Grossmith were born in London in 1847 and 1852
respectively to a theatrical family who were friends with Henry Irving
and Ellen Terry. George became a popular composer and performer of
comic songs as well as a successful actor. Weedon trained as a painter
at the Slade and the Royal Academy, but soon turned to acting like his brother.
The Diary of a Nobody began life as a series of columns the
brothers wrote together for Punch which they later expanded
into a novel. It was published in 1892, with Weedon's
illustrations, to instant acclaim and has remained in print ever
since. George died in 1912, followed by his brother in 1919.
