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Dinks
1807–1858
Known by the pen name “Dinks,” this 19th-century English sporting writer is remembered for lively books on country life, especially dogs and field sports. Writing under a nickname helped give the work a brisk, conversational character that still stands out today.
1 Audiobook
The Dog
by Dinks, W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson, Edward Mayhew
About the author
Best known as Dinks, Jonathan Peel was an English writer associated with sporting and country-life subjects in the mid-1800s. Library records connect the name Dinks with works such as The Dog, where he appears alongside other well-known writers on field sports.
He lived from 1807 to 1858, and the surviving references suggest that his reputation rests more on his contribution to Victorian sporting literature than on a large, widely read body of fiction. The pen name itself became the name most closely linked with his published work.
Because reliable modern biographical material on him is fairly limited, many basic details about his life are less well documented online than his published writings. What can be said with confidence is that Dinks remains a small but interesting figure in 19th-century English print culture, especially for readers curious about the history of sporting books and rural writing.