Papers by and concerning Thomas Love Peacock, 1849?-1913.

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Papers by and concerning Thomas Love Peacock, 1849?-1913.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80093249

Includes autograph letters to Peacock, and to Richard Garnett from various correspondents concerning Peacock, as well as autograph letters and a telegram from Henry Wallis. Also contains an unsigned annotated paper, The works of Thomas Love Peacock by Edith Clarke (Mrs. Charles Clarke), an unsigned autograph manuscript of Peacock's notes for Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley, a manuscript of Capture of Seringapatam, among other items.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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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...

Wallis, Henry, b. 1830-,

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Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906

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Epithet: LLD, Keeper of Printed Books British Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00015c English librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : British Museum, to F.J. Dreer, 1892 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269566963 Librarian of the British Museum. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, 1889 Oct. 11. (Unk...

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...

Clarke, Charles, Mrs., 1844-1926

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