Thomas Peckett Prest
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Thomas Peckett Prest (AKA Thomas Preskett Prest) (probable dates 1810-1859) was a British hack writer, journalist and musician. He was a prolific producer of penny dreadfuls. He is now remembered as the creator of the fictional Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber' immortalized in his The String of Pearls: A Romance. He has also been associated with the authorship of Varney the Vampire, now more often thought to be the work of J. M. Rymer. He wrote under pseudonyms including Bos, a takeoff of Charles Dickens' own pen name, Boz. Before joining Edward Lloyd's publishing factory, Prest had made a name for himself as a talented musician and composer.
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- The Penny Pickwick (1839) (lampoon of The Pickwick Papers)
- The Life and Adventures of Oliver Twiss, Workhouse Boy (1841) (lampoon of Oliver Twist)
- David Copperful (a lampoon of David Copperfield)
- Nickelas Nicklebery (a lampoon of Nicholas Nickleby)
- The String of Pearls: A Romance (1846)
- The Maniac Father; or, The Victims of Seduction
- Vice and its Victims; or, Phoebe the Peasant's Daughter
- The Miller and His Men; or, The Bohemian Banditti (1831)
- The Hebrew Maiden; or, The Lost Diamond (1841)
