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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Aubrey Beardsley
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(1872–98) Artist and illustrator whose brilliantly stylized black-and-white images, mostly designed for reproduction as line blocks, have become a predominant visual symbol of the *aesthetic 1890s. In a prolific and tragically brief career his greatest achievements were two books which appeared in 1894, Wilde's Salome and Malory's Morte d'Arthur; it was also in 1894 that he became art editor of the *Yellow Book. His pornographic illustrations to Aristophanes' Lysistrata (1896) were characteristically witty and elegant. He died of tuberculosis.
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