Pierce Egan The Younger
His son, also Pierce Egan (1814–80) and usually referred to as 'the younger', began his professional career as an illustrator of his father's books and himself wrote around fifty romances. A good artist but a lesser writer, his blood-and-thunder romances included The Snake in the Grass (1858), Love Me, Leave Me Not (1859) and My Love Kate, or the Dreadful Secret (1869). He was also the sports editor of Bell's newspapers for some years, and briefly editor of The Weekly Times. From 1860 until his death twenty years later he edited The London Journal. His son, a third Pierce Egan, then became editor until his death in 1890.
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