Peake Papers 1938-1962

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Peake Papers 1938-1962

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University College London

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Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968

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Mervyn Peake, 1911-1968

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Mervyn Peake was born in China on 9 July 1911. He attended Tientsin Grammar School and Eltham College Kent. He became a poet, novelist, painter, playwright and illustrator. He married Maeve Gilmore, an artist, in 1937 and had two sons and one daughter. He is best known for: 'Rhymes Without Reason', 1944; 'Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor', 1945 (rep.1966); 'The Craft of the Lead Pencil', 1946; 'Titus Groan' (novel), 1946; 'Letters from a Lost Uncle', 1948; 'The Glassblowers' (poem) and 'Gorme...