Boz, ‘Frisky Spekkum’s Dream’, “The Cats’ Arabian Nights, or, King Gri

Boz, ‘Frisky Spekkum’s Dream’, “The Cats’ Arabian Nights, or, King Grimalkum” by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881SourceBoz is a pseudonym for an artist whose identity I couldn’t find given that “Boz” was also a pseudonym for Charles Dickens and any information referring to “Boz” seemed to refer to Dickens. “Dickens took the pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus, whom he called “Moses” after a character in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield. This, “being facetiously pronounced through the nose,” became “Boses”, which in turn was shortened to “Boz”. The name remained coupled with “inimitable” until “Boz” eventually disappeared and Dickens became known as, simply, “The Inimitable”. (Source) -- source link

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