The Misfortunes of Elphin

First edition title page

The Misfortunes of Elphin is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his fifth long work of fiction, published in 1829.^[1] It is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements. Seithenyn appears as a major character.

References

↑ "Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)". Encyclopædia Britannica 21. 1911. p. 22.

External links

Text of The Misfortunes of Elphin, at the T. L. Peacock Society

Novels by Thomas Love Peacock

Headlong Hall (1815) Melincourt (1817) Nightmare Abbey (1818) Maid Marian (1822) The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) Crotchet Castle (1831) Gryll Grange (1861)

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