George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith

George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) and his younger brother Walter Weedon Grossmith (9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919) were English brothers who collaborated on the comic novel The Diary of a Nobody (1892). George Grossmith was a celebrated music-hall comedian, singer, actor and writer, famed for creating many principal comic roles in the original Gilbert and Sullivan operas and for his comic piano sketches; he also published memoirs including A Society Clown (1888) and Piano and I (1910). Weedon Grossmith trained as a painter and later became an actor, illustrator and playwright; he illustrated The Diary of a Nobody and published his own reminiscences From Studio to Stage (1913). The edition with ISBN 0140005102 is a modern Penguin/Everyman-type edition of The Diary of a Nobody by the Grossmith brothers. Both men were English, active in late Victorian and Edwardian theatre and humorous writing.