Thomas Love Peacock | Author

About the Author

Thomas Love Peacock was born on October 18, 1785. He was largely self-educated and worked most of his life for the East India Company. During this time, he mastered Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Welsh. He became chief examiner in 1836 and retired on a pension in 1856. He wrote seven novels show more during his lifetime including Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle, and Gryll Grange. He died on January 23, 1866 at the age of 81 from injuries sustained in a fire in which he had attempted to save his library. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Thomas Love Peacock

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Nightmare Abbey (1818) 434 copies

Nightmare Abbey [and] Crotchet Castle (1818) 382 copies

Headlong Hall & Nightmare Abbey (1816) 134 copies

Gryll Grange (1906) 83 copies

Crochet Castle (1831) 78 copies

Headlong Hall (1815) 72 copies

The Castle of Otranto with Vathek and Nightmare Abbey (2009) 57 copies

Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (1963) 43 copies

Maid Marian (1822) 34 copies

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (1963) 29 copies

Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange (1815) 27 copies

Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle (1895) 26 copies

The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) 17 copies

Nightmare Abbey / The Misfortunes of Elphin / Crotchet Castle (1971) 16 copies

Melincourt (2007) 16 copies

The Misfortunes of Elphin and Crotchet Castle (1937) 15 copies

Memoirs of Shelley, and other essays and reviews (1970) 14 copies

Three Novels (1940) 12 copies

The Pleasures of Peacock; Comprising in Whole or in Part the Seven Novels of T.L. Peacock (1947) 11 copies

Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Love Peacock (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 19) (2018) 11 copies

Defence of Poetry and the Four Ages of Poetry (1965) — Author — 10 copies

The misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne 9 copies

Peacock's Four ages of poetry ; Shelley's Defence of poetry ; Browning's Essay on Shelley (2018) 6 copies

The Complete Novels Volume I 6 copies

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock: Volume Two 4 copies

A Defence of Poetry / The Four Ages of Poetry (1965) 4 copies

Peacock's Memoirs of Shelley: With Shelley's Letters to Peacock 3 copies

Calidore (2004) 3 copies

The Poems of Thomas Love Peacock (2015) 3 copies

The Works of Thomas Love Peacock 1: Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian 3 copies

Seamen Three 2 copies

The works of Thomas Love Peacock, including his novels, poems, fugitive pieces, criticisms, etc 2 copies

The Ultimate Horror Collection, Volume 1 (57 Books) (English Edition) (2009) 2 copies

Peacock's Four Ages Of Poetry; Shelley's Defense Of Poetry; Browning's Essay On Shelley (1921) (2010) 1 copy

Sir Hornbook, Or, Childe Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-allegoriccal Ballad... (2012) 1 copy

The Works Of Thomas Love Peacock V1: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc. (1875) (2010) 1 copy

The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume I 1 copy

The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume II 1 copy

The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume III 1 copy

Angielski z cwiczeniami Nightmare Abbey (2018) 1 copy

Maid Marion, The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchett Castle, Gryll Grange 1 copy

Newark Abbey 1 copy

Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, The misfortunes of Elphin [and] Crotchet Castle ... 1 copy

Love Peacocks Mantel. Ein kleines Handbuch für den Bücherhasser (1988) 1 copy

Calidore & miscellanea 1 copy

Nightmare Abbey, Headlong Hall, & Crotchet Castle: A Collection of Three Gothic Satires 1 copy

Collected Stories 1 copy

Crochet Castle, Gryll Grange, Nightmare Abbey 1 copy

The Collected Works of Thomas Love Peacock: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 copy

A Peacock selection. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by H. L. B. Moody 1 copy

Headlong Hall and Other Tales 1 copy

The works of Thomas Love Peacock (1967) 1 copy

Thomas Love Peacock letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley, with fragments of unpublished mss 1 copy

The Last Day of Windsor Forest 1 copy

The genius of the Thames; a lyrical poem 1 copy

The legend of Saint Laura (2001) 1 copy

Songs from the novels of Thomas Love Peacock 1 copy

The philosophy of melancholy: a poem in four parts with a mythological ode 1 copy

Collected Works of Thomas Love Peacock (2017) 1 copy

Collected Stories of Thomas Love Peacock (HTML only) 1 copy

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (1985) 1 copy

The plays of Thomas Love Peacock (1976) 1 copy

The War Song of Dinas Vawr {poem} 1 copy

5 Books By Thomas Love Peacock (English Edition) (2009) 1 copy

The four ages of poetry [in, Olliers literary miscellany] 1 copy

Gl' Ingannati, the Deceived: A Comedy Performed at Siena in 1531; And Aelia Laelia Crispis (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copy

Trio sublime (2004) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,055 copies

Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 400 copies

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 250 copies

Great English Short Stories (1930) — Contributor — 20 copies

Minor Classics of Nineteenth-Century Fiction [2-volume set] (1967) — Contributor — 13 copies

Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse (1982) — Contributor — 12 copies

The Queen’s Story Book — Contributor — 2 copies

English Romantic Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1785-10-18
Date of death: 1866-01-23
Burial location: Shepperton Cemetery, Spelthorne, Surrey, England, UK
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK
Place of death: Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Middlesex, England, UK
Places of residence: Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK
Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK
HMS Venerable
Maentwrog, Merionethshire, Wales, UK
Wraysbury, Berkshire, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (show all 9)
Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Blackfriars, London, England, UK
Lower Halliford, Middlesex, England, UK
Occupations: novelist
poet
satirist
playwright
personal secretary
clerk (show all 10)
examiner
East India Company official
parliamentary lobbyist
literary critic
Organizations: British East India Company

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Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

a satire of romantic, melancholic literature with silly names

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Kristelh | 14 other reviews | Oct 22, 2023 |

Castle of Otranto: WITH Nightmare Abbey AND Vathek by Various

I enjoyed The Castle of Otranto and found it easy to read. Vathek was beautifully descriptive and rich in detail. Nightmare Abbey I didn't like so much. I thought it was more of a silly romance and had very little of the gothic genra really, though I can see how this could translate to a stage farce quite well.

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LouieAndTheLizard | 3 other reviews | Sep 18, 2023 |

Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock

I quite enjoyed this Georgian satire though I didn't think it was as funny as Peacock's more famous novel "Nightmare Abbey". However, Peacock's style will not be for everyone & I can easily imagine that some readers would find this deadly dull. Personally I find it would be worth reading his books just for the fun of the characters' names - Mr. Mac Quedy (get it - Q.E.D. - ha ha), Mr. Touchandgo (the absconding banker), the Earl of Foolincourt, Mr. Wilful Wontsee, etc. etc.

Read in my hardcover omnibus "The Pleasures of Peacock"… (more)

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leslie.98 | 2 other reviews | Jun 27, 2023 |

Maid Marian (Dodo Press) by Thomas Love Peacock

Read in my hardcover omnibus "The Pleasures of Peacock" (104 pgs)

Peacock's version of Robin Hood contains some amusingly snarky comments along with the familiar story.

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leslie.98 | 2 other reviews | Jun 27, 2023 |

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