Around 1894, Owen Seaman
(1861-1936) was
recruited by Bertram Fletcher Robinson to
write for a periodical entitled The Granta. Seaman was previously
Professor of Literature at Durham College of Science
(1888-1893). Later, he became the editor of Punch
(1906-1932) and was awarded both a knighthood and baronetcy (1914 and 1933 respectively). In 1904, Bertram Fletcher Robinson wrote that Seaman was one of the few who “kept the light of parody burning
amongst us” (Vanity
Fair, 1 September 1904, pp. 271-272).
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