Oliver Goldsmith

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Standard Name: Goldsmith, Oliver

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah, Lady Pennington
She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading,
Sarah, Lady Pennington,. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters. W. Bristow and C. Ethrington.
38
and offers...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS penned a poem she called Eyam, reminiscent of Goldsmith 's The Deserted Village, about a visit back to her birthplace.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
99-100
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...
Textual Production Violet Fane
Under the initial V, VF contributed a series of satirical sketches on the English upper classes to Edmund Yates 's The World. They were collected as The Edwin and Angelina Papers (1878).
The...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974).
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii.
xiv n16
She told the Royal Literary Fund that...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes...
Textual Production Elizabeth Griffith
Besides a splendid frontispiece portrait of EG in the first edition, with her published works around her, the book was further illustrated with plates originating in the magazine. The other contributors were Oliver Goldsmith (who...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...
Textual Features Eliza Cook
Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for...
Textual Features Elizabeth Strutt
The book had coloured illustrations. ES adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum...
Textual Features Tabitha Tenney
Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...
Textual Features Matilda Betham-Edwards
This man, a French Protestant condemned to the galleys as a heretic, had published authentic memoirs of his harrowing experiences in 1757. Oliver Goldsmith (who may possibly have met Marteilhe) had translated them pseudonymously into...
Textual Features Alethea Lewis
She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...
Textual Features Susanna Blamire
It is generally supposed that this poem owes something to Oliver Goldsmith 's The Deserted Village,
Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
though SB represents a whole range of country working people with markedly more familiarity and realism than does Goldsmith.

Timeline

1705: According to Oliver Goldsmith, Beau Nash...

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1705

According to Oliver Goldsmith , Beau Nash arrived in Bath, whose social life he was to dominate for so long, the same year that the town began its brilliant architectural redesigning.

September 1759-1763: The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical...

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September 1759-1763

The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical entitled The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex. Its aim was instruction as well as entertainment, and it sometimes strikes a proto-feminist note.

24 January 1760-14 August 1761: The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith's...

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24 January 1760-14 August 1761

The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith 's series of essays entitled Letters from a Citizen of the World to his Friends in the East.

26 June 1764: Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known...

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26 June 1764

Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known History of England; it was well reviewed and remained a standard pedagogical text for generations.

1765: The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...

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1765

The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was published by John Newbery: the most popular children's book of its period. It had fourteen reprints before 1814.

27 March 1766: Oliver Goldsmith published his single, sentimental-humorous...

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27 March 1766

Oliver Goldsmith published his single, sentimental-humorous novel, The Vicar of Wakefield.

1767: Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems...

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1767

Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems for Young Ladies, dividing it into three sections: Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining.

29 January 1768: The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith's two comedies,...

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29 January 1768

The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith 's two comedies, The Good Natur'd Man, opened at Covent Garden Theatre , where it ran long enough for three author's benefit nights. It was printed the same year.

26 May 1770: Oliver Goldsmith published his best-known...

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26 May 1770

Oliver Goldsmith published his best-known poem, The Deserted Village.

15 March 1773: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer...

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15 March 1773

Oliver Goldsmith 's She Stoops to Conquer (second of his two comedies) had its first performance.

By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...

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By 24 December 1881

Lillie Langtry became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith 's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre , London.

1905: K. L. Montgomery, the pseudonym for the two...

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1905

K. L. Montgomery , the pseudonym for the two sisters Kathleen and Letitia (who were distantly related to Oliver Goldsmith ), published the contemporary love story Love in the Lists: A Pension Comedy.

Texts

Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966.
Griffith, Elizabeth, and Oliver Goldsmith. Novellettes. Fielding and Walker, 1780.