Hugh Owen manuscript material : 1 item 1844

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Hugh Owen manuscript material : 1 item 1844

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Hugh Owen, Welsh campaigner for education. To Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist and poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1844 : (S'ANA 0285) : from Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset House : relating a story of a financial transaction of Percy Bysshe Shelley's; begins, "According to the kind permission which you gave me this morning I now beg to lay before you the claim of my old friend ...".

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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Owen, Hugh, 1804-1881

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Hugh Owen, Welsh campaigner for education. From the guide to the Hugh Owen manuscript material : 1 item, 1844, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866

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Thomas Love Peacock was an English author, perhaps best remembered for his satiric novels. He was working as a clerk when he published his first collection of poems, and his verse and essays earned him popularity with the public and his fellow writers. Over the course of his career, he published seven novels, each a unique combination of satire and observation; they are valuable for their commentary on contemporary English society, yet timeless in their themes and humour. Peacock had many litera...