Charles E. Carryl

Charles Edward Carryl (December 30, 1841 – July 3, 1920^[1]) was an American children's literature author.

Biography

Born in New York, his father was a prosperous businessman. Carryl became a successful businessman and stockbroker, and for 34 years from 1874 he held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1869 he married Mary Wetmore, and had two children, the eldest of whom was poet and humorist Guy Wetmore Carryl. In 1882 he published his first work: Stock Exchange Primer.^[1]

In 1884 he published the children’s fantasy Davy and the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"^[1][2], serialized in the magazine St Nicholas. His work includes the children’s nonsense poem “The Walloping Window Blind”, published in 1885, in a verse style similar to Lewis Carroll’s: A capital ship for an ocean trip/Was the Walloping Window-Blind;/No wind that blew dismayed her crew/Or troubled the captain’s mind.^[3] A second novel, The Admiral's Caravan, also serialized in St Nicholas beginning in December 1891, was dedicated to his daughter Constance.

His poems "The Sleepy Giant" and "The Walloping Window Blind" are featured on Natalie Merchant's 2010 concept album Leave Your Sleep.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Carryl Biography". www.princeton.edu. http://www.princeton.edu/~english/ENG335/carylbio.html. Retrieved 2007-01-23.  Contains information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
2. ^ Article by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre about Carryl and Davy and the Goblin in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July 2006) http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2006/cur0607.htm
3. ^ North, Arielle (1992-05-03). "A Spring Torrent of Children’s Books". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 

External links

Online texts

• Children's Books Online: Davy And The Goblin
• Audio reading of Robinson Crusoe's Story

Video

• Ted Talk with Natalie Merchant singing 'The Sleepy Giant' [1]

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Name	Carryl, Charles E.
Alternative names
Short description	American children's author
Date of birth	1841-12-30
Place of birth	New York
Date of death	1920-07-03
Place of death