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Author: Bayley, Peter

Biography:

Bayley, Peter (1778-1823: ODNB)

pseudonym Giorgione di Castel Chiuso

Son of Peter Bayley, a solicitor, and Sarah Tompkinson Bayley. Educated at Rugby and Oxford, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn but left the law to pursue literary interests. In 1807 he married his cousin Mary Wright; they had three children. His play Orestes in Argos, still in manuscript at his death, was performed at Covent Garden and published posthumously, as was the final, complete version of Idwal, his long Spenserian poem on a Welsh theme. (ODNB 15 Nov. 2017)

 

Other Names:

  • P. Bayley
  • Peter Bayley, Jr.
 

Books written (9):

London: William Miller, 1803
Philadelphia/ Baltimore /Washington [DC]/ Petersburg [VA]/Norfolk [VA]: J. Conrad and Co./ M. and J. Conrad and Co./ Rapin, Conrad and Co./ Somervell and Conrad/ Ronsal, Conrad and Co., 1804
London: Robert Stodart, 1820
London: Stodart and Steuart, 1820
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824