Archy and Mehitabel - Wikipedia
Archy and Mehitabel (styled as archy and mehitabel) are fictional characters created in 1916 by Don Marquis, a columnist for The Evening Sun newspaper in New York City. Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories in Marquis's daily column, "The Sun Dial".
Mehitable - Wikipedia
Mehitable is a feminine given name, a variant of the Old Testament name Mehetabel (meaning "God benefits"). [1] . During the British colonial period, it was a name used in the New England colonies, as the Protestants took many of their children's names from the Old Testament.
Archy and Mehitabel | Don Marquis, Satire, Humor | Britannica
Archy and Mehitabel, collection of humorous stories by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 in Marquis’s newspaper columns “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Sun and “The Lantern” in the New York Herald Tribune and published in book form in 1927.
mehitabel and her kittens - Don Marquis
Oct 26, 2011 · mehitabel and her kittens. By Don Marquis, in “archy and mehitabel,” 1927. well boss mehitabel the cat has reappeared in her old haunts with a flock of kittens three of them this time. archy she says to me yesterday the life of a female artist is continually hampered what in hell have i done to deserve all these kittens i look back on my life
Don Marquis - Wikipedia
He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent film (1926) and a talkie (1937).
Archy and Mehitabel: Marquis, Don: 9780385094788: …
Apr 17, 1970 · Mehitabel was an alley cat who insisted she was the reincarnation of Cleopatra. The short stories are written from Archy's point of view and constitute observations about life in general and the other characters that he and Mehitabel encounter.
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the song of mehitabel - Don Marquis
Oct 25, 2011 · the song of mehitabel. By Don Marquis, in “archy and mehitabel,” 1927. this is the song of mehitabel of mehitabel the alley cat as i wrote you before boss mehitabel is a believer in the pythagorean theory of the transmigration of the soul and she claims that formerly her spirit was incarnated in the body of cleopatra that was a long time ago
Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis - Goodreads
Oct 9, 2015 · This beloved illustrated classic tells the tale of Archy, a philosophical cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis.
"archy and mehitabel" by Don Marquis - University of …
Archy and Mehitabel are two inimitable characters — a philosophical cockroach who types out free verse correspondence by dive-bombing the keys and an insouciant feline dancer out to take life for all it is worth, ever the lady and “toujours gai.”
Happy 99 Years, Archy and Mehitabel! - Don Marquis
He won early fame as the chronicler of the Old Soak, a pickled foe of Prohibition, and lasting fame as the beloved “boss” of a cockroach wise beyond his years and an alley cat dancing through her ninth life: the immortal Archy and Mehitabel.