Gibbons, Stella. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm. Longmans, Green, 1949.
Thomas Love Peacock
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Standard Name: Peacock, Thomas Love
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Meredith | GM
married the young widow and mother Mary Ellen Nicolls
on 9 August 1849 in London. She was the daughter of prominent Romantic poet, novelist, and critic Thomas Love Peacock
(with whom the financially... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Williams | The framework of a group of cultured people standing for different points of view and exchanging ideas owes something to Thomas Love Peacock
's Headlong Hall, 1816 (also set in Wales), but Williams is... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | In this text the husband and wife team set out to capture the flavour of life at Portmeirion, at a time when a damaging hydro-electric scheme was proposed for the region.It is written in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | Flora, now a mother of five, returns to Cold Comfort Farm to help organise a conference put on by Mr Mybug's International Thinker's Group. |
| Occupation | John Wilson Croker | He was caricatured in works by Benjamin Disraeli
,Thomas Love Peacock
, Sydney Morgan herself, and her sister Olivia Clarke
. While the story that he caused the death of Keats is long since... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Hamilton | Even before Zaarmilla arrives in England, issues like the class system, war, political corruption, and the slave trade have been addressed. His endless misconceptions cast a comic veneer over a trenchant critique of the ordinary... |
| Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
composed his most famous prose work, A Defence of Poetry, a poetic credo conceived as an answer to Thomas Love Peacock
's Four Ages of Poetry. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Timeline
1816: Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous...
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1816
Thomas Love Peacock
published his anonymous satirical novel Headlong Hall.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1815): 574
By November 1818: Thomas Love Peacock published his satirical...
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By November 1818
Thomas Love Peacock
published his satirical novel Nightmare Abbey.
Van Doren, Carl. The Life of Thomas Love Peacock. Russell and Russell, 1966.
113
Mulvihill, James. Thomas Love Peacock. Twayne, 1987.
58
By 5 March 1831: Thomas Love Peacock published his satirical...
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By 5 March 1831
Thomas Love Peacock
published his satirical novel Crotchet Castle.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
175 (1831): 145
April-December 1860: Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel Gryll...
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April-December 1860
Thomas Love Peacock
's satirical novel Gryll Grange was serialised in Fraser's magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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