Life
?1839-97 [Edwin James Milliken]; b. Ireland; ed. as TCD, engineering, and worked as journalist on Figaro in London, 1872; joined Punch staff in 1878; created of ’Arry, an archetypal Cockney character in a successful series of comic poems noted for exact phonetic reproduction of Cockney dialect and cant, published as The ’Arry Papers (1874-97); other comic productions incl. The Modern Ars Amandi (1883); Fitzdotterel (1885); Untiled[?], or the Modern Asmodeus (1890); applied for Royal Literary Fund; d. 26 Aug. SUTH
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1912), lists Edward J. Milliken, author of Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage, in verse (rep. from Punch ) (London 1886); Romps All the Year Round, verse (London 886), ill. Harry Furniss.
John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longmans 1988; rep. 1989), cites 3 titles in British Library Catalogue; biography as supra.
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