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Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER
Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon
(1795–1854), MP, literary critic and author of Ion (1836), The Athenian Captive (1838), and other lifeless tragedies. Talfourd is remembered for his editing of the letters of his friend Charles Lamb , and for having introduced an Act securing real legal protection for authors' copyright. Dickens dedicated Pickwick Papers to him.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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