Carleton, George Washington (1832-1901)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Washington Carleton was born in New York on 16 January 1832 and died on 11 October 1901. He was well known as a caricaturist and illustrator, before he entered the book publishing business. In 1857 he established the publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton, which became G.W. Carleton and Co., in 1861 after the death of his partner Edward P. Rudd. He published translations of the works of Victor Hugo and Balzac, popular American novels, and humorous texts like Josh Billings' Farmer's Alminax  a burlesque of the farmer's almanac. He published and illustrated his own travel narratives -- Our Artist in Cuba, Our Artist in Peru, and Our Artist in Spain and Algiers -- as well as satires like The Philosophers of Foufouville that was published under the pseudonym "Radical Freelance" and addressed to the utopian Fourierist experiment at Brook Farm (1841-1847) in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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