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Stephen Butler Leacock

Male : Humorist. His parents emigrated to Canada in 1876. Married Beatrix Hamilton 1900 (died 1925)
Nationality : Canadian Place of Birth : Swanmoor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire

Date of Birth : 1869 Date of Death : 1944 Age : 75

Other Work : Professor of Political Economy at McGill Univ, Montreal 1908-1936

Education : Upper Canada College & Univ of Toronto
1906-1915
Elements of Political Science
(1906 Archibold Constable)
Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks : Responsible Government
(1907 Morang, Canada)
Greater Canada
(1907 Montreal News Co) - pamphlet
Literary Lapses : A Book of Sketches
(1910 Dodd, US) (1910 Lane)
Nonsense Novels
(1911 John Lane)
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
(1912 JL)
Behind the Beyond & Other Contributions to Human Knowledge
(1914 JL) - A H Fish
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
(1914) (1915 JL)
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
(1915 Lane, US) (1915 JL)

1916-1920
Further Foolishness
(1916) (1917 JL) - A H Fish
Essays and Literary Studies
(1916 JL)
The Marionette's Calendar 1916
(1915 JL) - A H Fish
Frenzied Fiction
(1917) (1918 JL)
The Hohenzollerns in America
(1919 JL)
The Dawn of Canadian History
(1920 Glasgow, Brook & Co, Toronto)
The Mariner of St Malo
(1920 Glasgow, Brook & Co, Toronto)
Adventures of the Far North
(1920 Glasgow, Brook & Co, Toronto)
The Unsolved Mystery of Social Justice
(1920 JL)
Winsome Winnie
(1920) (1921 JL)

1921-1930
My Discovery of England
(1922 JL)
Over the Footlights
(1923 JL)
College Days
(1923 JL)
The Garden of Folly
(1924 Dodd Mead) (1924 JL)
Winnowed Wisdom
(1926 JL)
Short Circuits
(1926 JL)
The Iron Man and the Tin Woman
(1929 JL)
The Leacock Book
(1930 JL)
Economic Prosperity in the British Empire
(1930 Constable)

1931-1935
Wet Wit and Dry Humour
(1931 Dodd Mead, US)
The Dry Pickwick & Other Incongruities
(1932 JL)
Afternoons in Utopia
(1932 JL)
Back to Prosperity
(1932 Constable)
Lahontan's Voyages
(1932 Graphic Publ, Ottawa)
Mark Twain
(1932 Peter Davies)
Charles Dickens
(1933 PD)
The Greatest Pages of Charles Dickens
(1934 Doubleday, Doran US)
Stephen Leacock
(1934 Methuen)
Humour : Its Theory & Technique
(1935 JL)
Lincoln Frees the Slaves
(1935 Peter Davies)

1936-1940
The Gathering Financial Crisis in Canada
(1936 Lovat Dickson)
Hellements of Hickonomicks
(1936 Dodd Mead US)
My Discovery of the West
(1937 JL)
Funny Pieces
(1937 JL)
The Greatest Pages of American Humour
(1937 Methuen)
Humour and Humanity
(1937 Home Univ Library)
Here are My Lectures
(1938 JL)
Model Memoirs
(1939 JL)
All Right, Mr Roosevelt
(1939 OUP, Toronto)
Too Much College
(1940 JL)
Our British Empire
(1940 JL)

1941 Onwards
Stephen Leacock's Laugh Parade
(1941 Dodd Mead, US)
Canada : The Foundations of its Future
(1941 PP in Montreal)
Montreal : Seaport and City
(1942 Doubleday Doran, US) (1948 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto)
Our Heritage of Liberty
(1942 JL)
Happy Stories
(1945 JL)
The Boy I Left Behind Me
(1947 JL)
The Bodley Head Leacock
(1957 BH)
Laugh with Leacock
(1959 Corgi) - pb
The Unicorn Leacock
(1960 Hutchinson)
The Penguin Stephen Leacock
(1981 Penguin)
Feast of Stephen
(1970 McClelland & Stewart, Montreal)
Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
(1985 Skelton)

READING
Peter MacArthur : Stephen Leacock
(1923 Ryerson Press, Toronto)
Carleton K Allen : Oh, Mr Leacock !
(1925 JL)
Gerhard R Lomer : Stephen Leacock - A Checklist & Index of His Writings
(1954 Nat Lib of Canada)

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