Ebenezer Cooke (other)
Ebenezer Cooke or Cook may refer to: * Ebenezer Cooke (poet) (1667–1732), sometimes spelled Cook, London-born American poet ** Ebenezer Cooke, a fictional version of the poet who is the protagonist of John Barth's 1960 novel '' The Sot-Weed Factor'' * Ebenezer Cooke (politician) (1832–1907), Australian accountant and parliamentarian * Ebenezer Cooke (art education reformer) (1853–1904), art master and art education pioneer See also * Ebenezer Wake Cook (1843–1926), Australian painter * Ebenezer (given name) Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "stone of the help" (derived from the phrase ''Eben ha-Ezer''). The name is sometimes abbreviated as Eben. Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens's ''A Christm ...

Ebenezer Cooke (poet)
Ebenezer Cooke ( – ) was an American poet. Probably born in London, he became a lawyer in Maryland, then an English colony, where he wrote a number of poems including one that some scholars consider the first American satire: "The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr" (1708). He was fictionalized by John Barth as the comically innocent protagonist of '' The Sot-Weed Factor'', a novel in which a series of fantastic misadventures leads Cooke to write his poem. Life Little is known about the life of Cook (sometimes spelled "Cooke", but spelled Cook in his published works). It is known that Cooke, like the persona of his poem, voyaged to Maryland as a young man. He entered the bar of Prince George's County, Maryland, and practiced law before returning to London by 1694. He later returned to Maryland after inheriting a half interest in his father's estate at Malden, Maryland.
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The Sot-Weed Factor (novel)
''The Sot-Weed Factor'' is a 1960 novel by the American writer John Barth. The novel marks the beginning of Barth's literary postmodernism. ''The Sot-Weed Factor'' takes its title from the poem ''The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr'' (1708) by the English-born poet Ebenezer Cooke ( – ), about whom few biographical details are known. A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title " Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a ''Marylandiad'' to sing the praises of the colony. He undergoes adventures on his journey to and within Maryland while striving to preserve his virginity. The complicated '' Tom Jones''–like plot is interwoven with numerous digressions and stories-within-stories, and is written in a style patterned on the writing of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding, Laurence Ste ...
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Ebenezer Cooke (politician)
Ebenezer Cooke (14 May 1832 – 7 May 1907) was a South Australian accountant, Member of Parliament and Commissioner of Audit. Early life Cooke was born in London, England, where his eldest brother, the Rev. John Cooke, was a noted EgyptologistDeath of Mr. E. Cooke
''South Australian Register'' 8 May 1907 p.5 accessed 10 November 2011 and co-founder of ''The Freeman'', a Baptist weekly newspaper.

Accountant

In 1863 Ebenezer Cooke was sent out to the colony of South Australia by the as accountant for their smelting works in St Vincent Street,

Ebenezer Cooke (art Education Reformer)
Ebenezer Cooke (1837 – 1913) was an art master and pioneer in art education. An apprenticed lithographic draughtsman, he was introduced by his brother Mordecai to the lectures of Frederick Denison Maurice at the Hall of Association, 34 Castle Street East, London, in 1853 and the summer of 1854. When the Working Men's College was formed in 1854, he attended John Ruskin’s first drawing classes. After an unsuccessful partnership with John Fotheringham, also a student at the college, he gave up his trade and then took to teaching through the influence of Ruskin. He succeeded Ruskin as a drawing master at the college, and taught at other London establishments. During the 1850s and 1860s Cooke was influenced by Herbert Spencer, and became a student of Pestalozzi, developing an enthusiasm for the Pestalozzian and Froebellian methods in which he became an influential interpreter. With Thomas Ablett, Alexander Bain, and psychologist James Sully, he furthered art education thinking; ...
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Ebenezer Wake Cook
Ebenezer Wake Cook (28 December 1843 – 8 May 1926), generally referred to as E. Wake Cook, was a watercolour painter. Cook was born at Maldon, Essex, England and came to Melbourne in 1852. At 17 years of age Cook became an assistant to Nicholas Chevalier, who instructed him in painting, wood-engraving and lithography. During 1867 and 1868 Chevalier was commissioned to produce a number of images of New Zealand and Tasmania and Victoria, Australia, by the Duke of Edinburgh. A watercolour of Isle of the Dead in Tasmania was painted by Cook in about 1868. He was one of the original members of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870. In 1872 Cook studied under Eugene von Guerard at the National Gallery of Victoria. In that year he won the medal for the best water-colour exhibited at the exhibition of the New South Wales Academy of Art. He was an associate of Tom Roberts, Rupert Bunny and Bertram Mackennal, and for a time worked for the Adelaide Photographic Company. In 1873 Coo ...
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