Pierce Egan (1772–1849) was a British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. His popular book Life in London, published in 1821, was adapted into the stage play Tom and Jerry, or Life in London later that year, which became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End.[1]
Coining the term "the Sweet Science" as an epithet for prizefighting — which he dubbed "the Sweet Science of Bruising" as a description of England’s bare-knuckle fight scene, the first volume of his prizefighting articles, Boxiana; or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, was published in 1813.[2]
^Parker, John, ed. (1925). Who's Who in the Theatre (fifth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. p. 1196. OCLC 10013159.
^The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside. University of Chicago Press. 2017. p. 3.
PierceEgan (1772–1849) was a British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. His popular book Life in London, published in 1821, was...
PierceEgan the Younger (1814 – 6 July 1880) was an English journalist and novelist. The son of PierceEgan, the author of Life in London, he associated...
Retrieved 2 July 2017. PierceEgan, Boxiana, Volume I (1813). Snowdon, David (2013). Writing the Prizefight: PierceEgan's Boxiana World. Warner, Pelham...
bulldog Trusty. Portraits are given in 'Pugilistica' and Boxiana, in which PierceEgan remarks upon his likeness to Napoleon. A link between the silver and...
writer PierceEgan, the well-dressed, literate, and self-confident Richmond came on the receiving end of racist attitudes in Yorkshire. Egan described...
the English sportswriter and journalist PierceEgan, and part-published by George Smeeton in the 1810s. Egan wrote magazine articles about the bareknuckle...
contemporary account of the London Prize Ring, Boxiana, published in 1829, PierceEgan writes of an attempted fix (or "cross") of a match scheduled for 18 October...
and he thoroughly thrashed his opponent, ten minutes into the bout. PierceEgan, English boxing author of the period, noted that many in the crowd were...
Bondman: A Story of the Days of Wat Tyler (1833). He is the protagonist in PierceEgan the Younger's novel Wat Tyler, or the Rebellion of 1381 (1841), a highly...
Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism volume 1 page 145, PierceEgan David Snowdon, 'Writing the Prizefight: PierceEgan's Boxiana World' (2013) v t e...
forehead) as the basic blows.[unreliable source?] The British sportswriter PierceEgan coined the term "the sweet science" as an epithet for prizefighting –...
century, until they were replaced by the London Prize Ring rules in 1838. PierceEgan characterised Broughton as the "Father of the English School of Boxing"...
Cribb, on 20 July 1805. Later, the foremost prizefighting reporter, PierceEgan, stated that he was aware that some "friends of the CHAMPION" had encouraged...
including: Tom Molineaux Bill Richmond Tom Cribb George IV Beau Brummel PierceEgan Harriette Wilson Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort "The Arts: A FAREWELL...
"Black Sal," which appeared in an 1821 novel entitled Life in London by PierceEgan, a contemporary of Charles Dickens. The term Aunt Sally is used for an...
protagonist of the 1841 Victorian penny dreadful Captain Macheath by PierceEgan the Younger. In Charles Dickens' novel, Little Dorrit, he is quoted by...
of the most famous prizefighters of her time, and writers including PierceEgan and Thomas Moore celebrated her career into the early 19th century. Little...
later writers of fiction, beginning at PierceEgan the Younger's 1840 novel Robin Hood and Little John. In Egan's story there were, genealogically, two...
on both occasions. The foremost prizefighting reporter of the period, PierceEgan, recorded their battle of 14 October 1807: ‘Gregson’s strength was manifest...
Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom (1821) by PierceEgan, the British sports journalist who authored similar accounts compiled...
ed. (1854). Noctes Ambrosianae, Volume 5. Redfield. p. 288. P. Egan (1832). PierceEgan's book of sports, and mirror of life: embracing the turf, the chase...
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