Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape , all three of which were adapted for television.
72-711: Sharpe was born in Holloway, London , and brought up in Croydon . Sharpe's father, the Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister who was active in far-right politics in the 1930s. He was chairman of the Acton and Ealing branch of The Link , and a member of the Nordic League . He declared that he hated Jews "in the sense that he hated all corruption". Sharpe initially shared some of his father's views, but
144-535: A multicultural population and includes the Emirates Stadium , home of Arsenal F.C. . Until 2016, it was the site of Holloway Prison , the largest women's prison in Europe. Before 1965, it was in the historic county of Middlesex . The origins of the name are disputed; some believe that it derives from Hollow , or Hollow way , due to a dip in the road caused by the passage of animals and water erosion, as this
216-452: A deliciously filthy, but anonymous, manuscript that promises bestsellerdom. Frensic supplies a fake author and they are off down the primrose path. Much of this book is funny and devastatingly accurate until the plot disperses ..." More critically, Tom Payne wrote of Wilt in Nowhere : "Even half an hour after reading Tom Sharpe's 14th novel, it's difficult to remember what happened in it. ... Wilt
288-487: A few vignettes would slide past my mind’s eye – such as my very first Governing Body meeting, when, sombrely robed, the fellows debated, hotly and with manifest ill will, whether the vomit by the chapel was beer- or claret-based." The Los Angeles Times wrote of The Great Pursuit : "No one, from author to critic, goes unscathed in this satire on the publishing business on both sides of the Atlantic. Agent Frensic comes across
360-457: A fictionalized South Africa, are his best: Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure ." Leonard R. N. Ashley wrote in the Encyclopedia of British Humorists that "Sharpe's humorous techniques naturally derive from his fundamental approach, which is that of the furious farceur who compounds anger and amusement." and "His dialogue is deft and more restrained than his characterization, which sometimes
432-508: A golden age of academic dottiness, of the kind that has all but disappeared since the 1940s when Sharpe himself was a student." Caroline Moorehead writes (in a review of Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and its Discontents ): "When I was a fellow of Peterhouse, back in the Eighties, I was asked with tedious regularity whether the experience resembled Porterhouse Blue , Tom Sharpe’s grotesquely overblown satire. But even as I (truthfully) denied it,
504-626: A large area between the Arsenal stadium development and Caledonian Road . In addition, Islington London Borough Council have earmarked many improvement projects for the Nag's Head area over the next decade. It is also home to the large, sprawling Andover housing estate . Near to Holloway Road tube station is the North Campus of London Metropolitan University . This includes the Tower building, Stapleton House and
576-475: A memorandum for General Chesney's Euphrates expedition, which was praised both by Chesney and Lord Ellenborough. He opposed the employment of steamers on the Red Sea, probably in deference to the supposed interests of the company. In 1829 he published The Misfortunes of Elphin founded upon Welsh traditions, and in 1831 the novel Crotchet Castle , the most mature and thoroughly characteristic of all his works. He
648-652: A new stadium at Ashburton Grove in Holloway. It was informally known as Ashburton Grove until a naming rights deal with Emirates was announced. The stadium opened in the summer of 2006, and has an all-seated capacity of 60,355, making it the third biggest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the fourth biggest in London after Wembley Stadium , Twickenham Stadium and
720-664: A position as a history lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology , later Anglia Ruskin University. This experience inspired his Wilt series. From 1995 onward he and his American wife, Nancy, divided their time between Cambridge and their home in Llafranc , Spain, where he wrote Wilt in Nowhere . The couple had three daughters. Despite living in Catalonia , he did not learn either Spanish or Catalan. "I don't want to learn
792-408: A satirical ballad, Sir Proteus , which appeared under the pseudonym "P. M. O'Donovan, Esq." Shelley resorted to him during the agitation of mind which preceded his separation from Harriet. After Shelley deserted Harriet, Peacock became an almost daily visitor throughout the winter of 1814–15 of Shelley and Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), at their London lodgings. In 1815 Peacock shared their voyage to
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#1732852810773864-598: A social worker and a teacher. He was friendly with the activist and artist Harold Strachan until they fell out over a woman. Sharpe's time in South Africa inspired his novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure , in which he mocked the apartheid regime. He also wrote a play, The South African , which was critical of the regime. After it was performed in London, Sharpe was arrested for sedition in 1961 and deported from South Africa. After returning to England, Sharpe took
936-731: A very delightful acquaintance; he was always so agreeable and so very witty that he was called by his most intimate friends the "Laughing Philosopher", and it seems to me that the term "Epicurean Philosopher", which I have often heard applied to him, describes him accurately and briefly. In public business my grandfather was upright and honourable; but as he advanced in years his detestation of anything disagreeable made him simply avoid whatever fretted him, laughing off all sorts of ordinary calls upon his leisure time. Sir Edward Strachey wrote of him: A kind-hearted, genial, friendly man, who loved to share his enjoyment of life with all around him, and self-indulgent without being selfish. Richard Garnett in
1008-692: A year, but he left several grandchildren. Jane Peacock died in 1865. Canada boasts the majority of Peacock relatives including Tommy Peacock. Peacock's own place in literature is pre-eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the few is owing partly to the highly intellectual quality of his work, but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all pretension to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no consistent delineation of character. His personages are mere puppets, or, at best, incarnations of abstract qualities such as grace or beauty, but beautifully depicted. His comedy combines
1080-588: Is Grade II listed . During the Second World War, parts of Holloway experienced intense bombing due to its proximity to King's Cross railway station . Holloway was also home to HMP Holloway in Parkhurst Road, which was first built in 1852, originally housing both male and female prisoners, and from 1902 until its closure in 2016 housed only women and was the UK's major female prison. Prisoners that had been held at
1152-411: Is a victim of our times, and Sharpe doesn't seem to like them much. ... Sharpe might be happier in another age – the 18th century, perhaps – but even then he'd find plenty to rail against. It's tempting to see him as a contemporary Smollett: his plots are guided by whatever vices he feels like including, or whatever images are in his head. ... Wilt in Nowhere isn't Sharpe's finest work. His best tales put
1224-449: Is home to a very multicultural population, with the Holloway ward in 2011 recorded as: 42% white British, 21% from other white backgrounds, 7% mixed race, 14% Black, and 11% Asian. The mixed race population is in the top 100 out of 8,500 wards in the country. It is one of the most densely populated areas of London, with a density of approximately 40,000 people per square mile. Arsenal Football Club moved after 93 years at Highbury to
1296-597: Is mere caricature ..." Ashley also quotes reviews and comments by many critics, and cites 21 published reviews or critical comments on Sharpe's work, with brief summaries or quotations from each. Martin Levin, in a review of Porterhouse Blue , wrote that "Sharpe is one of England's funniest writers. He's in the tradition of the 19th-century satirist Thomas Love Peacock , who wrote novels of ideas laced with physical, slapstick farce." Adrian Mourby wrote that "Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue and Vintage Stuff are books that hark back to
1368-509: Is more concerned with the interplay of ideas and opinions than of feelings and emotions; his dramatis personae is more likely to consist of a cast of more or less equal characters than of one outstanding hero or heroine and a host of minor auxiliaries; his novels have a tendency to approximate the Classical unities , with few changes of scene and few if any subplots; his novels are novels of conversation rather than novels of action; in fact, Peacock
1440-545: Is near the southern end of Holloway Road, and is on the Northern City Line . Holloway is served by the following bus routes: 4 , 17, 21 29 , 43 (24 hour), 91, 153, 253 , 254, 259, 263 and 393, and also Night routes N29, N41, N91, N253 and N279. Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company . He
1512-428: Is not yet attained, though I have little doubt but that it will be. It was not in the first instance of my own seeking, but was proposed to me. It will lead to a very sufficing provision for me in two or three years. It is not in the common routine of office, but is an employment of a very interesting and intellectual kind, connected with finance and legislation , in which it is possible to be of great service, not only to
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#17328528107731584-578: Is so much more interested in what his characters say to one another than in what they do to one another that he often sets out entire chapters of his novels in dialogue form. Plato 's Symposium is the literary ancestor of these works, by way of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus , in which the conversation relates less to exalted philosophical themes than to the points of a good fish dinner. Modern paperback editions of Peacock's works are almost nonexistent. The standard edition of Peacock's verse and prose
1656-576: Is transported by road to the Edmonton Solid Waste Incineration Plant or to landfill sites in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire . The nearest London Underground stations are Caledonian Road , Highbury & Islington , Holloway Road and Archway . The nearest London Overground stations are Caledonian Road & Barnsbury , Camden Road , Highbury & Islington and Upper Holloway . Drayton Park railway station
1728-460: The Dictionary of National Biography described Peacock as: a rare instance of a man improved by prosperity; an element of pedantry and illiberality in his earlier writings gradually disappears in genial sunshine, although, with the advance of age, obstinate prejudice takes its place, good humoured, but unamenable to argument. The vigour of his mind is abundantly proved by his successful transaction of
1800-494: The Downs . His preconceived affection for the sea did not reconcile him to nautical realities. "Writing poetry," he says, "or doing anything else that is rational, in this floating inferno , is next to a moral impossibility. I would give the world to be at home and devote the winter to the composition of a comedy ." He did write prologues and addresses for dramatic performances on board HMS Venerable . His dramatic taste then and for
1872-565: The Genius of the Thames was published by Thomas and Edward Hookham. Early in 1811 he left Maentwrog to walk home via South Wales. He climbed Cadair Idris and visited Edward Scott at Bodtalog near Tywyn . He also visited William Madocks at Dolmelynllyn . His journey included Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion . Later in 1811, his mother's annuity expired and she had to leave Chertsey and moved to Morven Cottage Wraysbury near Staines with
1944-402: The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium . The overall cost of the project was £390 million. Ashburton Grove was the site of Islington's Waste Transfer station. This facility has been moved to nearby Hornsey Street. All of Islington's waste is shipped here for onward processing - together with a significant proportion of that generated by the neighbouring London Boroughs of Camden and Hackney . The waste
2016-608: The 14th century it was in such poor condition that the Bishop of London built a new road up Highgate Hill and was claiming tolls by 1318. This was the origin of the Great North Road , now the A1, which passes through Holloway. Until the 18th century, the area was predominantly rural, but as London expanded in the second half of the 19th century it became urbanised. Holloway, like much of inner north London , experienced further rapid growth in
2088-652: The BBC in 1977, which contained similar elements of parody. Holloway, London Holloway is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington , England, 3.3 miles (5.3 km) north of Charing Cross , which follows the line of the Holloway Road ( A1 ). At the centre of Holloway is the Nag's Head commercial area which sits between the more residential Upper Holloway and Lower Holloway neighbourhoods. Holloway has
2160-554: The Company, but to the millions under their dominion ." On 1 July 1819 Peacock slept for the first time in a house at 18 Stamford Street, Blackfriars which, "as you might expect from a Republican, he has furnished very handsomely." His mother continued to live with him in Stamford Street. In 1820 Peacock contributed to Ollier's Literary Pocket Book and wrote The Four Ages of Poetry, the latter of which argued that poetry's relevance
2232-585: The Examiner's office James Mill and three others. Peacock was included at the recommendation of Peter Auber, the company historian, whom he had known at school, though probably not as a school-fellow. Peacock's test papers earned the high commendation, "Nothing superfluous and nothing wanting." On 13 January 1819, he wrote from 5 York Street, Covent Garden : "I now pass every morning at the India House, from half-past 10 to half-past 4, studying Indian affairs. My object
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2304-824: The Indian salt monopoly. In 1836 his official career was crowned by his appointment as Chief Examiner of Indian Correspondence, in succession to James Mill. The post was one which could only be filled by someone of sound business capacity and exceptional ability in drafting official documents: and Peacock's discharge of its duties, it is believed, suffered nothing by comparison either with his distinguished predecessor or his still more celebrated successor, Stuart Mill . In 1837 appeared his Paper Money Lyrics and other Poems of which only one hundred copies were printed. Also in 1837, Headlong Hall , Nightmare Abbey , Maid Marian , and Crotchet Castle appeared together as vol. 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels . During 1839 and 1840 Peacock superintended
2376-491: The Learning Centre. Another prominent feature in Holloway is the Emirates Stadium , home of Arsenal F.C. The area is home to many artists and people who work in the media, including many journalists, writers and professionals working in film and television. It is also known as a hotspot for many of London's graffiti artists. At the 2001 census , the population of Holloway was 41,329, of those 48% male and 52% female. It
2448-640: The Thames". On 29 May he set out on a two-week expedition to trace the course of the Thames from its source to Chertsey and spent two or three days staying in Oxford. Peacock travelled to North Wales in January 1810 where he visited Tremadog and settled at Maentwrog in Merionethshire . At Maentwrog he was attracted to the parson's daughter Jane Gryffydh, whom he referred to as the "Caernavonshire nymph". Early in June 1810,
2520-433: The author's misguided patriotism. Peacock and Shelley became friends and Peacock influenced Shelley's fortunes both before and after his death. In the winter of 1813 Peacock accompanied Shelley and his first wife Harriet to Edinburgh. Peacock was fond of Harriet, and in his old age defended her reputation from slanders spread by Jane, Lady Shelley, the daughter-in-law of Shelley's second wife Mary. In 1814 Peacock published
2592-557: The beautiful fabric of paper-credit is periodically subject." In his early time at the India Office he wrote little except for the operatic criticisms which he regularly contributed to The Examiner , and an occasional article in the Westminster Review or Bentley's Miscellany . Peacock showed great ability in business and in the drafting of official papers. In 1829 he began to devote attention to steam navigation, and composed
2664-567: The best literature in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian. In 1804 and 1806 he published two volumes of poetry, The Monks of St. Mark and Palmyra . Some of Peacock's juvenile compositions were privately printed by Sir Henry Cole . In around 1806 Peacock left his job in the city and during the year made a solitary walking tour of Scotland. The annuity left by his father expired in October 1806. In 1807 he returned to live at his mother's house at Chertsey . He
2736-606: The construction of iron steamers which rounded the Cape, and took part in the Chinese war. Peacock's occupation was principally with finance, commerce, and public works. He wrote a poem on "A Day at the India Office": From ten to eleven, have breakfast for seven; From eleven to noon, think you've come too soon; From twelve to one, think what's to be done; From one to two, find nothing to do; From two to three, think it will be A very great bore to stay till four. In about 1852 towards
2808-421: The early 1900s. It became an important local shopping centre, benefitting from the road junction at Nag's Head which became an important hub for trolleybuses till their withdrawal in the 1950s. The London and North Eastern Railway opened a station here, which had a significant impact on the residential and commercial development of the neighbourhood in the latter part of the 19th century. The station, now closed,
2880-674: The eleventh prize from the Monthly Preceptor for a verse answer to the question "Is History or Biography the More Improving Study?". He also contributed to "The Juvenile Library", a magazine for youth whose competitions excited the emulation of several other boys including Leigh Hunt , de Quincey , and W. J. Fox . He began visiting the Reading Room of the British Museum and continued doing so for many years, diligently studying
2952-597: The end of Peacock's service in the India office, his zeal or leisure for authorship returned, and he began to contribute to Fraser's Magazine in which appeared his entertaining and scholarly Horæ Dramaticæ, a restoration of the Querolus , a Roman comedy probably of the time of Diocletian, and his reminiscences of Shelley. Peacock retired from the India House on 29 March 1856 with an ample pension. In his retirement he seldom left Halliford and spent his life among his books, and in
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3024-507: The garden, in which he took great pleasure, and on the River Thames. In 1860 he still showed vigour by the publication in Fraser's Magazine of Gryll Grange , his last novel. In the same year he added the appendix of Shelley's letters. His last writings were two translations, Gl' Ingannati (The Deceived) a comedy, performed at Siena in 1861 and Ælia Lælia Crispis of which a limited edition
3096-539: The help of some friends. In 1812 they had to leave Morven Cottage over problems paying tradesmen's bills. In 1812 Peacock published another elaborate poem , The Philosophy of Melancholy , and in the same year made the acquaintance of Shelley. He wrote in his memoir of Shelley, that he "saw Shelley for the first time just before he went to Tanyrallt", whither Shelley proceeded from London in November 1812 ( Hogg 's Life of Shelley , vol. 2, pp. 174, 175.) Thomas Hookham ,
3168-463: The humour is frequently too recondite to be generally appreciated, and their style is perfect. They owe much of their charm to the simple and melodious lyrics with which they are interspersed, a striking contrast to the frigid artificiality of Peacock's more ambitious attempts in poetry. As a critic, he was sensible and sound, but neither possessed nor appreciated the power of his contemporaries, Shelley and Keats, to reanimate classical myths by infusion of
3240-538: The language," he said, "I don't want to hear what the price of meat is." Sharpe died on 6 June 2013 in Llafranc from complications of diabetes at the age of 85. He was reported to have been working on an autobiography. It was also said that he had suffered a stroke a few weeks earlier. Paying tribute, the author Robert McCrum wrote "The Tom Sharpe I knew was generous, acerbic, engaging, and full of wicked fun." Susan Sandon, Sharpe's editor at Random House , remarked that he
3312-656: The latter's poem of Rhododaphne, or the Thessalian Spell, published in 1818 and Shelley wrote a eulogistic review of it. Peacock also wrote at this time the satirical novels Melincourt published in 1817 and Nightmare Abbey published in 1818. Shelley made his final departure for Italy and the friends' agreement for mutual correspondence produced Shelley's magnificent descriptive letters from Italy, which otherwise might never have been written. Peacock told Shelley that "he did not find this brilliant summer," of 1818, "very favourable to intellectual exertion;" but before it
3384-596: The mock- Gothic with the Aristophanic . He suffers from that dramatist's faults and, though not as daring in invention or as free in the use of sexual humour, shares many of his strengths. His greatest intellectual love is for Ancient Greece, including late and minor works such as the Dionysiaca of Nonnus ; many of his characters are given punning names taken from Greek to indicate their personality or philosophy. He tended to dramatize where traditional novelists narrated; he
3456-464: The modern spirit. Peacock married Jane Griffith or Gryffydh in 1820. In his "Letter to Maria Gisborne", Shelley referred to Jane as "the milk-white Snowdonian Antelope." Peacock had four children, a son Edward who was a champion rower, and three daughters. One of them, Mary Ellen, married the novelist George Meredith as her second husband in August 1849. Only his son survived him, and he for less than
3528-543: The name Holwey was applied to the district around the road. The main stretch of Holloway Road runs through the site of the former villages of Tollington and Stroud. The exact time of their founding is not known, but the earliest record of them is in the Domesday Book . The names had ceased being used by the late 17th century, but are still preserved in the local place names of Tollington Park and Stroud Green . The original route from London went through Tollington Lane. By
3600-560: The next nine years resulted in attempts at comedies and lighter pieces, all of which lacked ease of dialogue and suffered from over-elaborated incident and humour. He left HMS Venerable in March 1809 at Deal and walked around Ramsgate in Kent before returning home to Chertsey. He had sent his publisher Edward Hookham a little poem of the River Thames which he expanded during the year into "The Genius of
3672-520: The original prison include Ruth Ellis , Isabella Glyn , Christabel Pankhurst and Oscar Wilde . The site is due to be redeveloped, though as of 2017 the prison buildings still stand. Like many other parts of Islington, the gentrification of Holloway is now under way, particularly in the Hillmarton and Mercers Road/Tavistock Terrace conservation areas (to the south and west of Holloway Road). There are also many luxury development projects taking place over
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#17328528107733744-485: The publisher of all Peacock's early writings, was possibly responsible for the introduction. It was Hookham's circulating library which Shelley used for many years, and Hookham had sent The Genius of the Thames to Shelley, and in the Shelley Memorials , pp. 38–40, is a letter from the poet dated 18 August 1812, extolling the poetical merits of the performance and with equal exaggeration censuring what he thought
3816-644: The reader firmly in a world: we can cherish the memories of the atavistic dons in Porterhouse Blue , or rail at the South African police in Indecent Exposure (1973). The present novel is simply a hapless tour of bits of England and Florida, in which colourful things happen and puzzle the police." Sharpe sent up the class-conscious English writer Dornford Yates in Indecent Exposure . He worked on an adaptation of Yates' thriller She Fell Among Thieves for
3888-578: The source of the Thames. "He seems", writes Charles Clairmont, Mary Godwin's stepbrother and a member of the party, "an idly-inclined man; indeed, he is professedly so in the summer; he owns he cannot apply himself to study, and thinks it more beneficial to him as a human being entirely to devote himself to the beauties of the season while they last; he was only happy while out from morning till night". By September 1815 when Shelley had taken up residence at Bishopsgate, near Windsor, Peacock had settled at Great Marlow . Peacock wrote Headlong Hall in 1815, and it
3960-570: The task of finding the Shelleys a new residence. He fixed them near his own home at Great Marlow. Peacock received a pension from Shelley for a time, and was put into requisition to keep off wholly unauthorised intruders upon Shelley's hospitable household. Peacock was consulted about alterations in Shelley's Laon and Cythna, and Peacock's enthusiasm for Greek poetry probably had some influence on Shelley's work. Shelley's influence upon Peacock may be traced in
4032-518: The uncongenial commercial and financial business of the East India Company; and his novels, their quaint prejudices apart, are almost as remarkable for their good sense as for their wit. But for this penetrating sagacity, constantly brought to bear upon the affairs of life, they would seem mere humorous extravaganzas, being farcical rather than comic, and almost entirely devoid of plot and character. They overflow with merriment from end to end, though
4104-613: Was "witty, often outrageous, always acutely funny about the absurdities of life". His ashes were interred in the graveyard at the remote church in Thockrington , Northumberland , where his father had been a preacher. Blott on the Landscape was adapted by BBC TV in 1985 and broadcast in six episodes of 50 minutes each. It was scripted by Malcolm Bradbury and starred George Cole as Sir Giles Lynchwood, Geraldine James as Lady Maud and David Suchet as Blott. In 1987 Porterhouse Blue
4176-527: Was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels , each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Peacock was born in Weymouth, Dorset , the son of Samuel Peacock and his wife Sarah Love, daughter of Thomas Love, a retired master of a man-of-war in the Royal Navy . His father
4248-406: Was a glass merchant in London, partner of a Mr Pellatt, presumed to be Apsley Pellatt (1763–1826) . Peacock went with his mother to live with her family at Chertsey in 1791 and in 1792 went to a school run by Joseph Harris Wicks at Englefield Green where he stayed for six and a half years. Peacock's father died in 1794 in "poor circumstances" leaving a small annuity. Peacock's first known poem
4320-542: Was adapted for television, again by Bradbury, in four episodes for Channel 4 . It starred David Jason as Skullion and Ian Richardson as Sir Godber Evans . In 1989 Wilt was made into a film by LWT , featuring Griff Rhys Jones as Henry Wilt, Mel Smith as Inspector Flint and Alison Steadman as Eva Wilt. Michael Dirda said in an interview: "Tom Sharpe is very funny – but exceptionally vulgar, crude and offensive. Many view him as Britain's funniest living novelist. Most people feel that his first two novels, set in
4392-492: Was an epitaph for a school fellow written at the age of ten and another on his Midsummer Holidays was written when he was thirteen. Around that time in 1798 he was abruptly taken from school and from then on was entirely self-educated. In February 1800, Peacock became a clerk with Ludlow Fraser Company, who were merchants in the City of London . He lived with his mother on the firm's premises at 4 Angel Court Throgmorton Street. He won
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#17328528107734464-566: Was at the same spot as the current Holloway Road tube station , on the Piccadilly line . In 1921, the first sexual health clinic for women in the whole of the UK was opened in Holloway by Marie Stopes . The Mothers' Clinic at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London, opened on 17 March 1921. The clinic was run by midwives and supported by visiting doctors. It offered mothers birth control advice, taught them birth control methods and dispensed Stopes own "Pro-Race" brand cervical cap. The free clinic
4536-406: Was being ended by science, a claim which provoked Shelley's Defence of Poetry . The official duties of the India House delayed the completion and publication of Maid Marian , begun in 1818, until 1822, and as a result of the delay it was taken for an imitation of Ivanhoe although its composition had, in fact, preceded Scott's novel. It was soon dramatised with great success by Planché , and
4608-462: Was briefly engaged to Fanny Faulkner, but it was broken off through the interference of her relations. His friends, as he hints, thought it wrong that so clever a man should be earning so little money. In the autumn of 1808 he became private secretary to Sir Home Popham , commanding the fleet before Flushing . By the end of the year he was serving Captain Andrew King aboard HMS Venerable in
4680-437: Was circulated in 1862. Peacock died at Lower Halliford , 23 January 1866, from injuries sustained in a fire in which he had attempted to save his library, and was buried in the new cemetery at Shepperton . His granddaughter remembered him in these words: In society my grandfather was ever a welcome guest, his genial manner, hearty appreciation of wit and humour in others, and the amusing way in which he told stories made him
4752-533: Was greatly affected by the death of his mother in 1833 and said himself that he never wrote anything with interest afterwards. Peacock often appeared before parliamentary committees as the company's champion. In this role in 1834, he resisted James Silk Buckingham's claim to compensation for his expulsion from the East Indies, and in 1836, he defeated the attack of the Liverpool merchants and Cheshire manufacturers upon
4824-594: Was horrified on seeing films of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Sharpe was educated at Bloxham School , on which he based Groxbourne in Vintage Stuff , followed by Lancing College . He then did national service in the Royal Marines before being admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge , where he read history and social anthropology. Sharpe moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as
4896-496: Was open to all married women for knowledge about reproductive health. Stopes opposed abortion; she tried to discover alternatives for families and increase knowledge about birth control and the reproductive system. In the late 1930s, the Odeon cinema on the junction of Tufnell Park Road and Holloway Road was built as a Gaumont but was severely damaged by a doodlebug during the Second World War . It has recently undergone extensive refurbishment but retains its foyer and staircase. It
4968-480: Was published the following year. With this work Peacock found the true field for his literary gift in the satiric novel, interspersed with delightful lyrics, amorous, narrative, or convivial. During the winter of 1815–16 Peacock was regularly walking over to visit Shelley at Bishopgate. There he met Thomas Jefferson Hogg , and "the winter was a mere Atticism. Our studies were exclusively Greek". In 1816 Shelley went abroad, and Peacock appears to have been entrusted with
5040-471: Was quite over "rivers, castles, forests, abbeys, monks, maids, kings, and banditti were all dancing before me like a masked ball." He was at this time writing his romance of Maid Marian which he had completed except for the last three chapters. At the beginning of 1819, Peacock was unexpectedly summoned to London for a period of probation with the East India Company who needed to reinforce their staff with talented people. They summoned to their service in
5112-420: Was the main cattle driving route from the North into Smithfield . In Lower Holloway, the former Back Road , now Liverpool Road was used to rest and graze the cattle before entering London. Others believe the name derives from Hallow and refers to the road's historic significance as part of the pilgrimage route to Walsingham . No documentary evidence can be found to support either derivation; and by 1307,
5184-438: Was translated into French and German. Peacock's salary was now £1000 a year, and in 1823 he acquired a country residence at Lower Halliford , near Shepperton, Middlesex, constructed out of two old cottages, where he could gratify the love of the Thames, which was as strong as his enthusiasm for classical literature. In the winter of 1825–26 he wrote Paper Money Lyrics and other Poems "during the prevalence of an influenza to which
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