Thomas Love Peacock
English novelist and poet (1785-1866) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.
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Thomas Love Peacock | |
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Born | (1785-10-18)18 October 1785 Weymouth, Dorset, England |
Died | 23 January 1866(1866-01-23) (aged 80) Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Surrey, England |
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Jane Gryffydh
(m. 1820; died 1865) |
Children | 4, including Edward Gryffydh Peacock |
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