Theodore Edward Hook

(1788-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841 NRA: Hook Theodore Edward (1788-1841) Novelist DNB: Hook, Theodore Edward (1788-1841), writer and hoaxer LBT ID: ThHook1841 VIAF ID: 29524003 LOC ID: n82208528	B/BAP: 1788-09-22 DIED: 1841-08-24
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English novelist, wit, and friend of the Prince of Wales; he edited the John Bull (1820) and appears as the Lucian Gay of Disraeli's Conigsby and as Mr. Wagg in Vanity Fair.
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Theodore Edward Hook: Gilbert Gurney. Found 2. Display Records Maxwell. By the author of "Sayings and Doings". Found 1. Display Records Sayings and Doings. A Series of Sketches from Life. Found 3. Display Records Tekeli, or, the Siege of Montgatz. A Melo Drame in Three Acts. Found 3. Display Records “A Tour in England, Ireland, and France” in Quarterly Review. Found 1. Display Records The Trial by Jury: a Comic Piece, in Two Acts. Found 1. Display Records Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a Period of nearly Half a Century; with Original Anecdotes of many Distinguished Persons, Political, Literary, and Musical. Found 2. Display Records