DEATH OF BLANCHARD.
Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
/ London, September 5. The death is announced of Edward Laman Blanchard, the dramatist, aged CO.
Mr. E. L. Blanchard was born December 11, 820, his father being William Blanchard, the distinguished comedian. At a very early period of his life, be became a contributor to periodical and dramatic literature, and before his 25th year, was known to the public as the editor of Chambers's London Journal, the author of Brad-, show's Descriptive Railway Guides, and a series of handbooks, tales, essays, dramas, farces and burlesques, which showed the exercise of a ready pen in the service of publishers and managers. He afterwards edited Willoughby's " Shakespere," " England and Wales Delineated," and wrote the novels of " Temple Bar " and " Man Without a Destiny." In addition to a quantity of literary work he furnished the theatres with about one hundred pieces, most of them Christmas extravagance. During more than thirty-five successive years'the Drury Lane Christmas annals proceeded from his pen, and for the last'quarter of a century he was on the literary staff of the London Daily Telegraph.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9463, 6 September 1889, Page 5
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