Title
George Linnaeus Banks
Date
2013-05-24
First Name
George
Last Name
Banks
Active Decades
1860
Birth Date
1821
Death Date
1881
Gender
male
Nationality
English
Industry
artisanry or trade
publishing
Occupation
cabinet casemaker
salesman
editor
Birthplace
Birmingham
Published Poetry Collections
Daisies in the Grass (1865)
Anthology Appearances
ODNB
"George Linnaeus Banks," by W.E.A. Axon
Correspondents
Sun Inn Group
Relatives
Isabella Varley Banks (wife) (qv)
Secondary Sources
Sutton, David C. (ed), Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London: The British Library, 1995), 73
Manuscript Information
- British Library, Department of Manuscripts (London)
- Letter to George Cruikshank (In RP1511)
- 2 letters re: application for a Royal Literary Fund grant, 1866-67 (In Loan no.96)
- Letter etc. to J. Winter Jones, 1877 (Add.MS.45747, f.11)
- Letter to G. Linnaeus Banks, 1867 (RP3231)
- John Rylands University Library of Manchester
- Poems, 1872-79. 9 items. With cuttings of printed poems, a pencil sketch of or by Banks, a poem initialed “GLB” but in the hand of Mrs. G. Linneaus Banks, and other associated material (E.L. Burney Collection, in scrapbook R144330)
- “Romance in reality,” short story by Banks, 18--. 42 pages (In E.L. Burney Collection)
- Letter, 18--. With a prospectus for “Spring gatherings,” a volume of poems by Banks (English MS.351/11)
- Letter to Isabella Varley (later Mrs. G.L.B.), 1843. With copies of notes by Mrs. Banks on a variety of subjects (In E.L. Burney Collection)
- 2 letters to George Cruikshank, 1866 (English MS.1282/4-5)
- Manchester Central Library
- Letter to John Harland, 18-- (Harland I.118)
- Letters (small collection), 18--. Recipients include: W.C. Bennett, J.E. Carpenter, Charles Dickens, Charles Macka, Westland Marston, John Oxenford, Marguerite A. Power, Samuel Warren, W.G. Wills (In Harland I.)
- Letter from W.G. Wills, 1867 (MS f091 H15, I.24)
- Portsmouth Central Library
- Crazy Kate [poem], 18--. With cuttings about Banks (Special Collections. Friends of Charles Dickens: autograph letterbook, fol.90
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Stratford-upon-Avon)
- Letter to George Cruikshank, 1864 (DR187/4)
- University College Dublin
- Letter to William Carleton, 1856 (Archives Department. LA15/1710)
- University of Edinburgh
- 5 letters to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1863-67 (In L.O.A.)
- University of Liverpool Library
- “What I live for,” poem by Banks, 18-- (Hope Autographs, no. 55)