parallel." Nathaniel aka Norman Gubbins is not to be confused with an earlier writer known as Nathaniel Gubbins, Edward Spencer Mott (1844-1910), author of Cakes and Ale, A Mingled Yarn, Pink Papers, Bits of Turf and The Flowing Bowl. : Dear Pig: Title-page and 30 illustrations from drawings by Laurence Scarfe Hardback: green cloth decorated in gilt and blind, design by the illustrator in gilt to spine Small bruises to top board, previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, near fine.
According to Time: "Once a week Nat Gubbins speaks for the British man-in-the-street better than the British man-in-the-street can speak for himself.Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. The column was particularly successful during the Second World War, and is associated with London's spirit during the Blitz by many. From 1930 onwards he wrote a highly popular column in the Beaverbrook-owned Sunday Express called Sitting on the Fence. He worked as a freelancer and for the Daily Mirror. From: Gubbins, Nathaniel in The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction ». As a boy he worked in the Daily Express archives after he fought in World War I he was rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, he was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served with the army in India and Burma between 1862 and. Nathaniel Gubbins (1893–1976), born Norman Gubbins, was a British journalist and humorist.
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