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Teasing the Romantics

Tom Hodgkinson on Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock, the beautifully named comic novelist, friend of the Romantics and high-flying East India Company executive, is not well known today, but as recently as the 1920s you could drop his name in literate circles and be confident that people knew who you were talking about.

Peacock’s Progress

J. W. M. Thompson on Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall; Crotchet Castle

The ups and downs of literary reputations are often slightly mysterious. I still find it strange, though, that although we pay ample homage to most of the heavyweights of the nineteenth century, one of the best and liveliest of them all has been allowed to fade from view. Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) deserves much better than that. I find his writings – sceptical, dry and sparkling with wit – as rewarding today as when I first read them many years ago.

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