Weedon Grossmith
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Walter Weedon Grossmith was an English writer, actor, painter and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody with his brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star George
Weedon Grossmith, c. 1904
Grossmith (l) in Mr. Preedy and the Countess, 1905
Iris Hoey, Lilias Waldegrave and Grossmith in Baby Mine (1911)
Grossmith in Vanity Fair: The Duffer, by Spy (1905)
Charles Pooter
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Charles Pooter is a fictional character, the supposed author and leading character of George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel The Diary of a Nobody. Pooter is a middle-aged and middle-class clerk in
Weedon Grossmith
…for Punch. The Diary of a Nobody was published as a novel and has never been out of print since. The book is a sharp analysis of social insecurity, and Charles Pooter of The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, was immediately recognized as one of the great English comic characters. Grossmith created 33 black and…
Charles Pooter as illustrated by Phil Hood (1984)