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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. [1] . He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. [2] Early life.
Stephen Leacock (born Dec. 30, 1869, Swanmore, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 28, 1944, Toronto, Ont., Can.) was an internationally popular Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author of more than 30 books of lighthearted sketches and essays.
Jun 17, 2010 · Stephen Leacock was the English-speaking world’s best-known humorist between 1915 and 1925. He was awarded the Mark Twain Medal for humour, the Royal Society of Canada ’s Lorne Pierce Medal and the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction.
Stephen Butler Leacock (December 1869 – March 1944) was born in England and moved to Canada when he was six years old. He became a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Though not as reknowned in modern times, during the early 1900s, Leacock was the most famous humorist writing in the English language.
Feb 16, 2024 · The story ‘With the Photographer’ is taken from a literary collection by Stephen Leacock, titled ‘Behind the Beyond, and other Contribution to Human Knowledge’. The author wants to give his photo to his friends, as a means to remember him after his death.
Stephen Leacock. Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world.
Oct 24, 2017 · Stephen Butler Leacock was an English-born Canadian writer, teacher, political scientist and humorist. He was a polyglot having proficiency in English, French and German. Leacock’s stories are masqueraded with humor and mainly revolve around himself and his life-events.
Mr. Stephen Leacock, in a delightful autobiographical preface to his new volume, tells us that many of his friends are under the erroneous impression that he writes his humorous nothings in idle...
Stephen Leacock. Born in Swanmore, England in 1869 Stephen Leacock is one of Canada’s great writers of humorous fiction. After many failed attempts at farming in England, South Africa and the United States, his father took the family to the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario.
In With the Photographer by Stephen Leacock we have the theme of insecurity, anger, appearance, confidence, acceptance and control. Narrated in the first person by an unnamed forty year old man the reader realises from the beginning of the story that Leacock may be exploring the theme of insecurity.
