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"Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor" by Mervyn Peake (recently in and then out of print via Candlewick) was written in 1939 or so.
Aargh? Roger Sutton 2009
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Waugh has never in what I’ve read been accused of being Dickensian in his names the way Mervyn Peake has (Captain Slaughterboard, the Earl of Groan, Gormenghast, Steerpike, Prunesquallor).
If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing 2010
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