Pierce Egan the Younger

His most ambitious work as an artist was a series of etchings to illustrate his father's serial, The Pilgrims of the Thames in Search of the National (1837).

[citation needed] He contributed to the early volumes of the Illustrated London News, started in 1842, and from 7 July 1849 to the end of 1851 edited the Home Circle.

of this work, ending 11 October 1851, reappeared, extended and recast, his Quintyn Matsys, the Blacksmith of Antwerp, afterwards reissued separately in library form with illustrations.

444–8, a popular Christmas story called The Waits; later republished in John Thomas Dicks' series of English Novels, No.

Also in Reynolds's Miscellany was The False Step; or the Castle and the Cottage (begun 21 February 1867, ended 3 October, Nos.

[citation needed] Beginning in 1858, and again through 1869, new proprietors of the Journal dispensed with Egan's services and reprinted three novels by Sir Walter Scott.

The first book of the Dumas interpretation was translated into Spanish by Colombia's Editorial Oveja Negra, but it was billed as being written by Sir Walter Scott, the author of Ivanhoe.

[6] Although the first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography stated that 'he was a liberal in politics', recent research into Egan's novels has shown him to have been a radical writer, arguing against Old Corruption and advocating republicanism in the United Kingdom.

[7] He died on 6 July 1880 at his residence, Ravensbourne, Burnt Ash, Lee, Kent (now London)[8] and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.