Thomas Peckett Prest

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 co-creator (with James Malcolm Rymer) of the fictional Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber' immortalized in his The String of Pearls. He has also been associated with the authorship of Varney the Vampire, now more often thought to be the work of Rymer.^{[citation needed]} 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.

Bibliography

• 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
• The Brigand; Or, The Mountain Chief: A Romance
• 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)

External links

• Works by Thomas Peckett Prest at Project Gutenberg