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LEMON, MARK (1809-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEMON, See also:MARK (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 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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