Peacock in love: reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an unknown Victorian novelist.(Critical essay)

Philological Quarterly | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

An editor of literary letters sometimes needs a bit of luck, as well as the persistence of a detective, to track down a "missing person." When I began to collect the letters of Thomas Love Peacock, I naturally wanted to identify the Mrs. Jenkins mentioned by his granddaughter Edith Nicolls as "a very old friend" and as one of his few correspondents in his last years. (1) But how was I to find a lady with a common surname about whom I knew next to nothing? The case seemed all but hopeless until I came across a bookseller's catalogue listing, among other Peacock first editions, ...

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