Joseph Edwards Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813, London – 6 May 1885, Bayswater ) was an English playwright, composer, and songwriter.

In 1851, Carpenter moved from Leamington to London. He wrote various touring musical entertainments such as The Road, the Rail and the River, and a Vocal, Pictorial, and Descriptive Illustration of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853). He appeared in Wisbech at the Public-hall accompanied by the Misses Jolly to present musical entertainments including An Hour in Fairyland in November 1854. A two-act musical drama The Sanctuary and his three-act drama Love and Honour appeared in 1854, and a three-act drama Adam Bede in 1862.

Works Random rhymes or lays of London, 1833 Minstrel musings, London, 1838 The romance of the dreamer, and other poems, London, 1841 What Are the Wild Waves Saying?, 1853 Songs and ballads, new ed., London, 1844; new ed. with additions, 1854 Poems and lyrics, new ed., London, 1845 Lays and legends of fairyland, London & Leamington, 1849 My jubilee volume, London, 1883