Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist, born at Weymouth. He was pretty much a self-taught scholar, and no mean one, as his literary activity over half a century abundantly showed. He held a post in the India House, his predecessor being James Mill and his successor John Stuart Mill.

Peacock was an intimate friend of Shelley and the father-in-law of George Meredith. He made his first literary appearance as a poet in two small volumes of poems, and his first novel was "Headlong Hall" as his latest was "Gryll Grange," all of them written in a vein of conventional satire, and more conspicuous for wit than humour. Thackeray owed not a little to him, little as the generality did, he being "too learned for a shallow age".

Wisdom & Quotes

• A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book - it is a plaything.

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Bernardo de Montegudo