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MARK LEMON (1809-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARK See also:LEMON (1809-1870)  , editor of See also:Punch, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3oth of See also:November 1809 . He had a natural See also:talent for journalism and the See also:stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the See also:writing of plays . More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London . At the same See also:time he contributed to a variety of magazines and See also:newspapers, and founded and edited the See also:Field . In 1841 See also:Lemon and See also:Henry See also:Mayhew conceived the See also:idea of a humorous weekly See also:paper to be called Punch, and when the first number was issued, in See also:July 1841, were See also:joint-editors and, with the printer and engraver, equal owners . The paper was for some time unsuccessful, Lemon keeping it alive out of the profits of his plays . On the See also:sale of Punch Lemon became See also:sole editor for the new proprietors, and it remained under his See also:control until his See also:death, achieving remarkable popularity and See also:influence . Lemon was an actor of ability, a pleasing lecturer and a successful impersonator of Shakespearian characters . He also wrote a See also:host of novelettes and lyrics, over a See also:hundred songs, a few three-See also:volume novels, several See also:Christmas See also:fairy tales and a volume of jests . He died at Crawley, See also:Sussex, on the 23rd of May 1870 .

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