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EGAN, PIERCE (1772-1849)

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EGAN, See also:PIERCE (1772-1849) , See also:English sporting writer, was See also:born in See also:London in 1772., He began See also:life as sporting reporter for the See also:newspapers, and was soon recognized as the best of his See also:day. In 1814 he wrote, set and printed a See also:book about the relations of-the See also:prince See also:regent (afterwards See also:George IV.) and See also:Miss See also:Robinson, called The See also:Mistress of See also:Royalty, or the Loves of Florizel and Perdita. But his best-known See also:work is Life in London, or Days and Nights of See also:Jerry See also:Hawthorne and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom (1821), a book\ describing the amusements of sporting men, with illustrations by See also:Cruikshank. This book took the popular See also:fancy and was one of See also:Thackeray's See also:early favourites (see his Roundabout Papers). It was repeatedly imitated, and several dramatic versions were produced in London. A sequel containing more of See also:country See also:sports and misadventures probably suggested See also:Dickens's Pickwick Papers. In 1824 Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting See also:Guide was started, a weekly newspaper afterwards incorporated with See also:Bell's Life. Among his numerous other books are Boxiana (1818), Life of an Actor (1824), Book of Sports (1832), and the Pilgrims of the See also:Thames (1838). Egan died at Pentonville on the 3rd of See also:August 1849. His son, Pierce Egan (1814-188o), illustrated his own and his See also:father's books, and wrote a See also:score of novels of varying merit, of which The Snake in the Grass (1858) is perhaps the best.

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