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EGAN, PIERCE (1772-1849)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 11 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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