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.
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