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    Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 – 24 August 1841) was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best...
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    1372 The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, London, England, in 1810. Hook had made a bet with his friend Samuel Beazley...
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    and on marital relationships presaged later development in the novel. Theodore Hook was a major writer of fashionable novels, and Henry Colburn was a major...
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    postcard was a hand-painted design on card created by the writer Theodore Hook. Hook posted the card, which bears a penny black stamp, to himself in 1840...
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  • Sunday newspaper established in the City, London EC4, by Theodore Hook in 1820. Under Hook, John Bull was a champion of high Toryism and the virulent...
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    Fulham in London. It was addressed to the writer and practical joker Theodore Hook, who was probably also its sender and artist. The hand-painted design...
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  • (film), a 2007 film about Robert Maxwell Maxwell, an 1830 novel by Theodore Hook Maxwell the pig, in the GEICO commercials Maxwell, the main protagonist...
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  • Siege of St Quintin is an 1808 historical play by the British writer Theodore Hook. It is inspired by the 1557 Battle of St. Quentin. Its theme of a past...
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  • Marchessault's wrist shot beating Sergei Bobrovsky. In the second period, Shea Theodore's long range shot found its way past Bobrovsky, giving Vegas a 2–1 lead...
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    stories unpublished.: 11–14  Other Georgian era scandal sheets were Theodore Hook's John Bull, Charles Molloy Westmacott's The Age, and Barnard Gregory's...
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