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Thomas Love Peacock
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Standard Name: Peacock, Thomas Love
Connections
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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 | 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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 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... |
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. Gibbons, Stella. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm. Longmans, Green. |
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... |
Timeline
1816: Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous...
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1816
Thomas Love Peacock
published his anonymous satirical novelHeadlong Hall.
By November 1818: Thomas Love Peacock published his satirical...
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By November 1818
Thomas Love Peacock
published his satirical novelNightmare Abbey.
By 5 March 1831: Thomas Love Peacock published his satirical...
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By 5 March 1831
Thomas Love Peacock
published his satirical novelCrotchet Castle.
April-December 1860: Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel Gryll...
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April-December 1860
Thomas Love Peacock
's satirical novelGryll Grange was serialised in Fraser's magazine.
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