Clarinda Knowles Atkyns manuscript material, ca. 1850

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Clarinda Knowles Atkyns manuscript material, ca. 1850

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CORRESPONDENCE To Thomas Love Peacock : 1 ALS ; 30 April [ca. 1850] (P'ANA 0022), begins: "I was so glad to see your letters yesterday -- I did not like the last one I wrote after it was done ..."

Autograph letter signed.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Atkyns, Clarinda Knowles, b. 1797.

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Clarinda Atkyns, née Knowles, lifelong friend of Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock declared his love for the fifteen year old beauty in an 1812 letter to his friend Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (cf. Joukovsky, N. Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, 47). She eventually married the Revd. John Atkyns (1802 or 1803-1875). From the guide to the Clarinda Knowles Atkyns manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1850, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

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...